GBRIA Celebrates 23 Years of Safety Excellence in Industry

BATON ROUGE, LA – April 5, 2019: The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance, Inc. (GBRIA) announced the winners of its 23^rd Annual Safety Excellence Awards. The awards were presented at a banquet held on April 4, 2019 at the L’Auberge Resort in Baton Rouge, LA. Approximately 650 guests attended the event, which featured guest speaker John Jackson, host of the Discovery Channel television show “Out da Bayou.”

The award program was established in an effort to recognize excellent safety performance by contractors working in industrial facilities in 1996 under the leadership of Hal G. Ginn, Plant Manager of DSM Copolymer at the time. Ginn played an instrumental role as the chair of GBRIA in raising safety standards and expectations in industry in the Baton Rouge area, which has spread across the U.S. with other petrochemical and heavy industrial manufacturers.

GBRIA members that nominated their highest performing contractors included Air Liquide, Air Products, Americas Styrenics, BASF, CF Industries, Delek US, Eastman Chemical, Eco Services, ExxonMobil Baton Rouge, ExxonMobil Polyolefins, Formosa Plastics, Honeywell, Honeywell UOP, INEOS Oxide, Methanex, Mexichem, Nova Chemicals, Nucor Steel, Nutrien, Olin Plaquemine, Olin St. Gabriel, Occidental Chemical Convent, Occidental Chemical Geismar, Placid Refining, Renewable Energy Group (REG), Rubicon, Shell Catalyst and Technologies, Shell Chemical, Shell Convent Refinery, Solvay, Syngenta, The Dow Chemical Company, Total Petrochemical, W. R. Grace, Westlake Chemical Plaquemine, Westlake Chemical Geismar and Veolia.

The winning contract companies each year demonstrated a level of safety excellence that includes thousands and millions of hours worked without injury, a commitment by management to educate workers, and a fostered zero-incident culture.

2019 GBRIA Contractor Safety Excellence Awards Recipients

• General Construction and Maintenance
  • Div I: 1^st Place: Petrochem Field Services, 2^nd Place: PALA Interstate, 3^rd Place: Industrial Specialist, LLC
  • Div II: 1^st Place: Cajun Industries, LLC, 2^nd Place: Specialty Welding and Turnarounds, LLC (SWAT), 3^rd Place: Repcon, Inc.
  • Div III: 1^st Place: Performance Contractors, Inc., 2^nd Place: Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC, 3^rd Place: Turner Industries Group, LLC
• Specialty Trade (Hard Craft)
  • Div I: 1^st Place: Westgate, LLC, 2^nd Place: Midwest Cooling Towers, LLC, 3^rd Place: Cooling Tower Technologies, LLC
  • Div II: 1^st Place: ISC Constructors, LLC, 2^nd Place: Turner Specialty Services, LLC, 3^rd Place: Universal Plant Services
  • Div III: 1^st Place: MMR Constructors, Inc., 2^nd Place: JVIC (A Zachry Group Company)
• Specialty Trade (Soft Craft)
  • Div I: 1^st Place: Coating Services, Inc., 2^nd Place: Petrin
  • Div II: 1^st Place: BrandSafway, 2^nd Place: Excel Modular Scaffolding & Leasing Corp.
  • Div III: 1^st Place: Apache Industrial Services, 2^nd Place: Brock Services
• Technical Support
  • Div I: 1^st Place: Austin Fire Systems, 2^nd Place: Jacobs Alliance Group, 3^rd Place: Acuren Inspection, Inc.
  • Div II: 1^st Place: Axion Logistics, 2^nd Place: Ford, Bacon & Davis, 3^rd Place: UP Professional Solutions
  • Div III: 1^st Place: Total safety U.S., Inc., 2^nd Place: Petroleum Service Corporation, an SGS Company, 3^rd Place: TEAM Industrial Services

GBRIA also announced winners of the Community Service Award and Innovative Practice Award. Excel received the Community Service Award and Zachry Group received the Innovative Practice Award. The top award, the 2019 Hal G. Ginn Safety Excellence Award, was earned by Cajun Industries, LLC for the best overall performance of all of the nominees.

Photos of the event can be seen at https://gbria.shutterfly.com/pictures beginning on 4/8/2019.

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