GBRIA Announces Winners of 2026 Contractor Safety Excellence Awards

GBRIA Announces Winners of 2026 Contractor Safety Excellence Awards

The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance (GBRIA) announced the winners of its 30th Annual Safety Excellence Awards during a banquet on March 26, 2026, at L’Auberge Resort in Baton Rouge. Approximately 600 guests attended the event, which recognized contractors for outstanding safety performance across GBRIA member facilities.

The awards program was established in 1996 by the late Hal G. Ginn, then plant manager of DSM Copolymer. As a former GBRIA board chair, Ginn played a key role in raising safety expectations across the Baton Rouge region—standards that have since influenced practices across the broader petrochemical and heavy industrial sectors.

The program reflects GBRIA members’ strong commitment to safety and their partnership with contractors and project owners to ensure safe, reliable operations.

“At the end of the day, this is about people going home safely to their families. The companies recognized here are doing the hard work to make that happen day in and day out. They’re setting the bar for what safety should look like across our region,” said Connie Fabre, President & CEO, Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance.

GBRIA member companies that nominated their highest performing contractors include Air Liquide, Americas Styrenics, BASF, CF Industries, Cornerstone Chemical Co., Delek, Dow, Eastman, ExxonMobil, Koch Methanol, Linde, Marathon Petroleum Company, Methanex, NOVA Chemicals, Nucor, Nutrien, OxyChem, PBF Energy Chalmette Refining, Placid Refining Company, Rubicon, Shell, Shintech, SNF Flopam, Solstice, Trecora, Westlake, and W. R. Grace & Co.

Award-winning contractors demonstrated exceptional safety performance, including millions of work hours without injury, along with a strong commitment to workforce training and a zero-incident culture. In total, GBRIA members nominated 42 companies representing more than 200 million hours worked.

The 2026 GBRIA Safety Excellence Awards were presented across eight service categories. Within each category, companies were further recognized in Division I, II, or III based on total hours worked in the previous year.

The following companies are the 2026 award winners: 

Specialty Awards

Hal G. Ginn: Loadstar & MMR Constructors

Partnership in Safety Award: Midwest Cooling Tower Services and ExxonMobil

Innovation in Safety Award: PSC Group

Community Service Award: Brown & Root Industrial Services & Performance Contractors

General Construction and Maintenance

Div. I:

• 3^rd Place: PALA Interstate
• 2^nd Place: Pipe and Steel Industrial Fabricators
• 1^st Place: RES Contractors

Div. II:

• 3^rd Place: Zachry Maintenance Services
• 2^nd Place: Cajun Industries
• 1^st Place: Turner Industrial Maintenance

Div. III:

• 3^rd Place: Performance Contractors
• 2^nd Place: Brown & Root Industrial Services
• 1^st Place: Turner Industries Group

Specialty Trades - Environmental

Div. I:

1^st Place: Evergreen North America Industrial Services

Specialty Trade Hard Craft

Div. I:

• 3^rd Place: Midwest Cooling Tower Services
• 2^nd Place: TC Boiler & Piping
• 1^st Place: Reliant Recycling

Div. II:

• 2^nd Place: Triad Electric and Controls
• 1^st Place: MMR Constructors

Crane and Rigging

Div. I:

1^st Place: TNT Crane & Rigging                

Specialty Trade Soft Craft

Div. I:  

• 3^rd Place: Petrin
• 2^nd Place: Excel Modular Scaffolding & Leasing Corp
• 1^st Place: BrandSafway

Div. II:

1^st Place: Brock Services

Commercial Construction

Div. I:

1^st Place: Arkel Constructors

Technical Support

Div. I:

• 3^rd Place: Austin Fire Systems
• 2^nd Place: Precision Inspection Services
• 1^st Place: Loadstar

Div. II:

1^st Place: aXion Logistics                               

Div. III:

• 3^rd Place: Acuren
• 2^nd Place: Turner Specialty Services
• 1^st Place: PSC Group

Photographs of the event and the winners are available here: https://linkit.shutterfly.com/Q543Uz.

About GBRIA

For more than 55 years, the Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance has united industry leaders, contractors, and suppliers to develop solutions to shared challenges.

Through the New Orleans Industry Alliance, we are expanding that collaboration across Southeast Louisiana, now representing approximately 80 facilities spanning petrochemical, paper, pharmaceutical, storage, and other manufacturing sectors.

Learn more at www.gbria.org.