2009 Safety Awards Winners Announced
Five hundred and twenty-two facilities at 37 companies enrolled in the 2009 GEAPS Safety Award program. Of those, 413 facilities at 31 companies were successful in completing 2009 without any lost-time injury or illness. At the General Session at GEAPS Exchange Feb. 23, GEAPS recognized these facilities for their outstanding achievements. In addition to the 2009 overall winners, GEAPS also named winners in the categories of cumulative hours and consecutive years. Click here for more details.
OSHA Forms Due for 2009 Safety Awards Program Participants
For those facilities enrolled in the 2009 Safety Awards Program, your 2009 OSHA forms were due at the GEAPS office by Jan. 22. (For non-U.S. facilities, you may submit a letter on company letterhead indicating the number of hours worked in 2009.) If you didn't send in your hours yet, you can still do so, but you may not make the deadline to get recognized at Exchage 2010 in Wichita. Mail or fax details for GEAPS can be found here. Contact Karin at GEAPS if you have any questions.
About the Safety Awards Program
In grain operations, avoiding the industry’s risk of engulfment, explosion and work-loss injury or illness at your facility is its own reward. Each year, though, GEAPS likes to go one step further and formally recognize outstanding safety achievements within the industry by rewarding companies with exceptional safety records.
The 2009 Safety Awards will be presented on stage during a public ceremony at Exchange 2011 in Wichita, Kan., and will honor companies and facilities with verifiable records of achievement in 2009. The program is not only for grain-storage facilities, but also for suppliers, engineers and millwrights who are in the industry, too.
In 2008, the GEAPS Safety Awards program honored 31 companies representing 418 facilities posting nearly 12.5 million worker hours without a lost-time, work-related injury or illness.