Safety Recognition Awards
Program Information & Criteria
Submission for the 2018 program is now closed.
View the 2017 Worker Safety Award Winners
Download Worker Safety Booklet
Worker
Safety Application Tips
For questions concerning the awards program, please contact Nicole Vetsch at 202-587-4228 or by email at nvetsch@meatinstitute.org.
The primary program goals
are to motivate participants to improve their
safety performance through the establishment of
sound safety and health programs at the plant
level and to recognize those plants that have
achieved a high level of safety performance as
part of the continuing effort to reduce
occupational injury and illness.
In
addition, the program can boost employee
morale, reduce expenses associated with
injuries and illness in the workplace and
enhance the meat and poultry industry's overall
image regarding employee safety and
health.
The various levels of awards that may be earned are based on an evaluation of each eligible plant's actual safety performance as well as its implementation of various key components of an effective safety and health program as measured by the safety program questionnaire. Of the 1,500 points available, 900 or 60 percent may be earned based on the outcome of a statistical analysis of the plant's injury and illness data performed by National Safety Council staff. The analysis will include an evaluation of both the Total Recordable Cases rate and the rate for Cases With Days Away From Work, Job Transfer, or Restriction (DART). The two rates will each be worth up to 450 points (one half) of the total points available for safety performance.
This year, we are accepting applications for plants with NAICS codes other than 311611, 311612, and 311615. For more information or to apply for a plant with a different NAICS code, contact Nicole Vetsch at nvetsch@meatinstitute.org or Dan McCausland at dmccausland@meatinstitute.org.