Message from the Chair of GBRIA Tom Yura COO, Cornerstone Chemical Chair ,Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance, Inc. This year marks our 25th Annual Safety Excellence Awards. In 1996, a vision was set with the establishment of this awards program. GBRIA members and our partners in the industrial community banded together with a commitment to have a safer workplace. Through hard work and dedication, we have proven that that an injury free workplace is possible! GBRIA is dedicated to adding value to our industrial community by focusing our efforts on safety performance and workforce development. This work is performed by our various committees and are organized around 6 key tenets: 1)
Achieve an injury and incident free workplace,
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Ensure access to a competitive and skilled company and contractor workforce;
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Build support in the local community for retention and growth of our industries;
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Facilitate operational excellence through networking and exchanges;
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Maintain a vibrant, successful and involved membership, and
6)
Provide stewardship to budget and maintain the highest levels of financial integrity.
Our program today, is all about our first tenet- Achieve an Injury and Incident Free Workplace. The Safety Excellence Awards program supports our goal by recognizing the safety performance of our partners by conveying GBRIA’s strong support of contractor safety performance and acknowledge that our contractors are an important part of our own workforce. We want to make GBRIA member workplaces injury free, and
we are counting on YOU to help us achieve this.
