GBRIA Individual Excellence in Safety Award
The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance and the
Safe Nation Radio
Program 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.
Listen to Stan Vanderleeuw, ExxonMobil Refinery Manager on the show here.
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nomination Form
nomination.pdf
Award Description Form
description.pdf
Listen to
Safe Nation
Radio
Saturday from
1:00 - 2:00 pm
for the
announcement of
the winner.
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