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Top business schools partner with Robert W. Campbell Award to share safety, health and environmental knowledge, emerging trends and best practices with future business leaders

Wharton School, McAfee School and Whittemore School are latest to become Robert W. Campbell Award Global Partners

Itasca, IL – The National Safety Council announced today that the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, McAfee School of Business Administration at Union University, and Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire have become Robert W. Campbell Award Global Partners.

The Robert W. Campbell Award, co-founded by the National Safety Council and Exxon Mobil Corporation, is an international award for business excellence that recognizes companies that successfully integrate safety, health and environmental (SH&E) management into their overall business operations.

“We are thrilled to have renowned schools such as these share our vision that SH&E management become an intrinsic and necessary part of doing business,” said Mei-Li Lin, Ph.D., National Safety Council Executive Director of Research and Statistical Services. “Through our partnerships with business schools, we hope to influence current and future managers in their understanding of the role that safety, health and environmental concerns play in the productivity and sustainability of their organizations.”

The case study from the first winner of the Campbell Award, Noble Corporation – a Texas-based oil drilling contractor – was developed into a business school case study similar to those published by Harvard Business School. Through collaboration with Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, the winning Campbell Award case study was incorporated into Georgetown’s curriculum as well as several other business and engineering school curricula in North America.

“The integration of the Noble business case study into those curricula is an example of how the Campbell Award promotes the sharing of knowledge, the education of future business leaders, and encourages worldwide dialogue of best practices that promote safety and health while improving business,” added Lin.

Since SH&E transcends national borders, the Robert W. Campbell Award draws on global partners to provide worldwide outreach and support for safety, health and environmental initiatives and fosters collaborations that support the purpose and vision of the Robert W. Campbell Award.

In addition to the Wharton School, McAfee School of Business Administration and the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, Global Partners include:

• The Conference Board (Worldwide)
• International Safety Council (Worldwide)
• International Social Security Association (Worldwide)
• Consultora Leais (Argentina)
• National Safety Council of Australia LTD (Australia)
• Industrial Accident Prevention Association (Canada)
• Minerva Canada (Canada)
• Foundation for the Regional Center for Occupational Safety and Health, FUNDACERSSO (Central America)
• China Occupational Safety and Health Association (China)
• Occupational Safety and Health Council, Hong Kong SAR (China)
• Colombian Safety Council / Consejo Colombiano de Seguridad (Colombia)
• BG Chemie (Germany)
• National Safety Council of India (India)
• Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (Korea)
• Center for Environmental Safety and Health Technology (Taiwan)
• McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University (USA)

Founded in 1913 and chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1953, the National Safety Council is the country´s leading safety and health advocate and service provider committed to preventing accidental injuries in the workplace, on roads and highways, and in homes and communities. Council members include more than 48,000 businesses, labor organizations, schools, public agencies, private groups and individuals.