GBRIA
Individual Excellence in Safety
Award
The Greater Baton Rouge Industry
Alliance
and the Safe Nation Radio Program (www.safenation.org)
are teaming together to recognize individual excellence
in safety in the region’s industrial facilities. The
“GBRIA Individual Excellence in Safety Award” will
recognize those individuals who demonstrate acts above
and beyond normal safety duties required of them.
Qualifying persons:
Individuals who work for or at a GBRIA facility,
including member company employees, contractor
employees, or vendors, are eligible. In addition,
members of the community who are not officially
associated with any member facility may be nominated.
Qualifying Act:
To qualify, the person must have done something out of
his or her normal job/safety duties to report or correct
a hazard.
Examples of Qualifying Acts:
1:
Employees leaving a facility on their own time notice a
flare run over, causing a small grass fire. Had they
just reported it, it might have spread to a very serious
level. They stopped, one went to report it while the
other put the fire out.
2:
Employee noticed a pipe leaking oil into a drainage
canal. Being a qualified operator, the employee used her
backhoe to dam up the canal before the spill became a
major environmental incident.
3:
A worker took the time to read the fine print on some
breathing air bottles and found them to be mislabeled.
There was no hazard to the workers, as the air was
tested and good to use, but by questioning the labeling,
a non-compliance issue that had gone unnoticed was
corrected.
4:
A member of the community notices railroad crossing
lights are not functioning and reports the problem to
the adjoining industrial facility.
An example of a non-qualifying act would be a
fire watch putting out a fire in their area of
responsibility, or an electrician fixing an electrical
hazard as part of their normal work.
Awards:
A
certificate with the individual’s name, recognizing the
Excellence in Safety act, will be printed by GBRIA.
GBRIA plant managers will present the awards to their
employees at their facility. A prize valued at
approximately $25 will be awarded. The prizes will
include restaurant coupons that will be mailed to the
winners by Safe Nation (subject to availability).
Permission to use the nominee’s full name must be
obtained prior to airing the name on the Safe Nation
Radio Program. If no permission has been granted, only a
nominee’s first name will be used. All nominees will be
listed on air, along with their immediate employer and
the location of the safety act (with permission). One
person will be picked at random from the group of
nominees each week to win the award and have their
safety act read on the air. With permission, each
winner will be listed on the Safety Excellence Hall of
Fame page on safenation.org. |
