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The Benefits Fair Is Worth Your Time
[March 17, 2025] Bright Wood people have a lot of options when it comes to building the right benefits package for your particular needs. With choices come questions and you can find the answers at the Benefits Fair. Talk to the experts and complete the paperwork to opt in or out of electives in one convenient location.
Bring your family, and remember to enter the raffle for free prizes when you arrive.
2025 Benefits Fairs
Madras
Tuesday, April 1
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Madras Education Center (upstairs in the main office)
Redmond
Wednesday, April 2
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Main Office Conference Room
Prineville
Thursday, April 3
1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Value-Added Plant’s Lunchroom
Open Enrollment Starts March 15
[March 14, 2025] Open Enrollment runs from March 15 through April 15. This is the one time a year when you can add, change, or delete electives from your Bright Wood Health & Wellness Plan coverage without a qualifying reason.
Consider what your family will need in the coming plan year for:
All changes take effect on May 1, 2025.
New: Three Free Health Care Visits Per Calendar Year
[April 24, 2024] Starting May 1, participants in Bright Wood’s Health and Wellness Plan (BWHWP) are entitled to three free in-office visits per calendar year with preferred providers for:
The three visits can be with different preferred providers and a combination of physical and mental health care.
On their fourth and subsequent visits, BWHWP participants who’ve met their deductible and are seeing a preferred provider will owe the following coinsurance payment per visit:
60-Year-Old Tuition-Assistance Program Still Helping Bright Wood Families Today
[May 19, 2023] Bright Wood’s Children’s Educational Tuition Assistance Program (CETAP) provides financial assistance for post-high school education ranging from college to trade school for employees’ dependent children.
The company has distributed over $1 million in CETAP funds since the early 1960s when founder Carl Peterson established the program.
Contact Bright Wood’s Personnel Department at 541-475-7799 between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to learn more and apply.
Eye Safety Starts Before You Get Out of Your Car
By Jim Sanders, Safety Manager
[March 9, 2023] Bright Wood has suffered 17 recordable incidents in the last three years involving an object in someone’s eye. In other words, five to six people suffer eye injuries annually.
History shows the majority of our eye injuries occur outside. If everyone wore their eye protection as soon as they arrived at work (before leaving their vehicles) and continued wearing it until they returned to their cars after work, we’d all be a lot safer. This is in fact, Bright Wood policy.
Making Prescription Safety Glasses Affordable
[August 22, 2022] Oregon Bright Wood associates are now eligible to purchase prescription safety glasses from Walmart’s Vision Centers in Redmond and Bend at a substantial discount.
Bright Wood will pay for the prescription lenses for your new safety glasses while you are only responsible for purchasing the frames, which run from $9 up to $29.
To participate, you need to present the Walmart Vision Center with:
Call Bright Wood’s Personnel Department at 541-475-7799 with questions.
