“Our operation has a fleet of over 14,000 vehicles. Bob has worked on the internal design of vehicles to limit the ergonomic impact of technicians moving equipment. He designed a trolley to extend the ergonomic improvements for the technician to the servicing of fire extinguishers. He has designed and is piloting a way to more effectively transport the cylinders while keeping the technicians’ hands free when walking. The new tool has resulted in a patent application.”

“Darren established program owners for every element of the safety program; created leader-led safety training programs to ensure everyone specifically knows their boss’s commitment; developed accountability systems to demonstrate the metrics that drive change in safety; initiated leadership safety walks that made hourly workforce aware of leadership’s commitment; established a take-home safety campaign that made safety personal for all employees and their families; and implemented a Safety Tag System that empowered every employee to change their work environment with hazard identification.

“Kurt has spent five years responding to and investigating loss incidents, at all hours and over a five-state area of responsibility. He strives to provide the critical fact-finding needed to drive root cause analysis and implement corrective actions. Kurt works with facility owners, trade organizations, state one-call centers, manufacturers, and peers in the damage prevention and loss control industry to develop best practices and a maintain a ‘partnership in prevention.’”

“Joe walks and talks safety at all times. His attitude is ‘never look the other way’ when it comes to safety. He saw the aftermath of a construction tragedy when he was 13. The men had all the right equipment, but chose not to use it. Joe didn’t look the other way; he made it his life mission to get involved in safety to help prevent similar occurrences. Joe wants everyone to ‘Be There for Life’ and advocates to keep them there.”

“Sean has established site-specific health and safety programs directly targeting the hazardous tasks performed at each project. Sean has implemented Safe Behavior Observation programs and job hazard analysis/pre-task plans, along with the accompanying behavior-based/integrated safety management leading indicators to track, trend and communicate the value of these programs and highlight the importance for each project to gather, complete and maintain this data. Throughout this process, he diligently worked to ensure project site managers are fully engaged in their site HS initiatives.”

“Jim established the Corporate Safety Team, whose goal was improving safety culture through management involvement in improving work routine safety, implementing safety training/orientation programs, and making safety a part of everyone’s daily job. Jim implemented hazard hunts and worked with management on daily reviews of safety performance and near-miss incidents, and reporting on those during monthly companywide management teleconferences. He encouraged the use of task-specific programs developed by managers.”

“Treena is never afraid to answer the hard questions, but rather encourages you to engage in trying to find the answers together. She has streamlined all of the plant safety projects, safety plans, training matrix and safety forms to a unified directory to give managers the ability to access all faucets of information. This is assisting in holding all accountable for safety.”

“Natalie was asked to lead a three-person global team to re-energize our ergonomic program. The result was the Ergonomic Management Program, which included training materials for individuals and management, ergonomic quick reference guides, a roll-out plan, and an ergonomic challenge event. The materials were developed over a five-month period. A train-the-trainer work session was held for the ergonomic leads from eight sites and then local roll-outs were coordinated over a three-month period.”