2006 Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards Luncheon
March 1, 2006, 11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
(Adam’s Mark Hotel – \ Indianapolis Airport)

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Indiana Department of Labor on behalf of Governor Mitch Daniels and the AFL-CIO, is pleased to present the 2006 Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards. These awards will be presented during lunch on March 1, 2006 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel – Indianapolis Airport. The Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards recognize the most innovative safety and health initiatives among Indiana’s workplaces. Applicants should show a strong commitment to worker safety and health. Specific award categories are: Innovations, Partnerships, Education and Outreach, and Technology Transfer. Applications are available for download below.

Award Selection
The review committee composed of representatives of each partner and academia will evaluate applications. The Governor’s Awards are competitive and will recognize only exemplary innovations; it is possible that no award will be selected in any particular category. Multiple awards may be given in any one category.

Eligibility
All Indiana businesses, unions, municipalities, schools, service organizations, nonprofit organizations or individuals are eligible to apply for the Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards. To qualify, applicants or nominees must be deemed to be free of compliance disputes concerning all applicable local, state and federal statues and regulations.

The awards are open to all organizations, regardless of size or number of workers affected. The review committee recognizes the limited resources of smaller entities and evaluates overall effectiveness of the program, process, technique, etc., relative to facility size.

Deadline
All nominations must be received at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 1, 2006.

Submitting Your Nomination

Complete the application form and include a description of the program which answers each of the eleven questions listed above. The program description should be limited to eight (8) single-spaced typewritten pages. Supplemental materials such as newspaper articles, photographs and publications are welcome. Submit only one (1) copy of supplemental materials. The deadline for submitting an application is Wednesday, February 1, 2006 at 5:00 p.m.

Mail your application to:
Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards
Scott Kerr
Indiana Chamber of Commerce
115 W. Washington Street, Ste. 850S
Indianapolis, IN 46204

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E-Mail you application to:
SKerr@indianachamber.com

Award Categories

Innovations
This category awards programs, processes or procedures implemented to create a safer and healthier work environment. The innovation should be unique in nature or have a unique quality that makes it stand apart from what is routine or common in industry.

The success of the program, processes or procedures adopted should be evidenced through positive achievements attained as a direct result of the innovation. The results of innovations should be further supported by the lost day incident rates, OSHA 200/300 logs and Worker’s Compensation modifier rates.

Partnerships
This category awards community, labor/management, or other partnerships established and maintained in order to create a more desirable workplace culture by reducing injuries and illnesses. Applicants should demonstrate how the partnership was empowered to achieve those ends. A strong working commitment by each partner should be demonstrated.

The success of a partnership should be evidenced though positive achievements attained. The effect of this partnership may be demonstrated through traditional measures such as lost work day incidence rates, OSHA 200/300 log data, Worker’s Compensation modifier rates, or though other measurements applicable to the specific partnership described.

Education and Outreach
This category awards innovative educational activities designed to inform a workforce, community or other of worker health and safety issues. The efforts should demonstrate an expressed interest in improving the safety and health culture of those persons reached and should be in addition to education required be any statue or regulation.

The effectiveness of these efforts may be measured by the number of hours spent on education, the number of safety programs delivered, or the number of persons affected or any other measurements applicable to the specific method of education and outreach described.

Technology Transfer
This category awards businesses, organizations, or individuals who have selflessly shared safety and health technology advances with others in their industry or the community at large.

The technology transfer efforts may be evidenced through testimonials of individuals and organizations that directly benefited from this transfer or by any other applicable measure.

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