28th Annual GBRIA Safety Excellence Awards

28TH ANNUAL

SAFETY EXCELLENCE AWARDS CELEBRATING THE

Stars of Safety

L'AUBERGE BATON ROUGE / MARCH 21, 2024

PROGRAM

Pledge of Allegiance Invocation Welcome Address Introductory Remarks Overview of Awards Award Presentations Specialty Construction Crane and Rigging Technical Support Specialty Trade Soft Craft Specialty Trade Hard Craft Specialty Trade Environmental General Construction & Maintenance Community Service Innovation in Safety

Hal G. Ginn Award Closing Remarks

2024 GBRIA SAFETY EXCELLENCE AWARDS

NOMINATING SITES

NOMINEES

NOMINEES

BENCHMARKING REPORT FINDINGS Following GBRIA’s 2023 Safety Excellence Awards, our Safety, Health, and Security Committee decided to make significant changes to our awards program.

The aim of the change was to focus our attention less on lagging statistics and more on the execution of safety programs and initiatives. This review process included benchmarking other industry safety recognition programs, such as ABC’s Step Program, AFPM’s Safety Awards, and IBR’s Safety Excellence Awards Programs.

As a result, the committee created a new model that focuses on narrative responses to a series of questions, requiring supporting documentation for key

questions along the way. To make our decision-making process more transparent, we listed our 0-4 grading scale on the application. Independent judging was also added to the application process to allow judges more time to evaluate the information they were presented. After thorough review, judges submitted their scores via an online platform, where the respective application scores were averaged among the three independent judges, and initial placements were made. As a committee, the act of consensus decision-making is of the utmost

importance, and thus, judges convened to review placements, set minimum cut scores to receive an award, and agree on final award recipients, relying on the scoring process and judge feedback to make our final decisions.

The reconfiguration of the application process of the Safety Excellence program, will allow the program to grow from a quantitative to a more qualitative contractor assessment, to assure that each company is continually implementing and refining new safety procedures to further propel our industry forward.

The following dashboards represent the average judge scores for each question in the nominees’ application form.

BENCHMARKING REPORT FINDINGS How does management demonstrate its commitment to safety? (Initiatives and Involvement)

12%

0 Points: Program or practice does not meet minimum requirements, or no response is given.

1 Point: Program or practice only meets minimum requirements or not enough detail is provided.

2 Points: Program or practice is commonly or widely adopted for industry.

8%

41%

39%

3 Points: Program or practice good to above average for industry.

4 Points: Program or practice is considered exemplary/far exceeds industry.

How do Front Line Leaders demonstrate their commitment to safety?

10%

How do Front Line Workers demonstrate their commitment to safety?

10% 2%

11%

29%

11%

34% 51%

44%

BENCHMARKING REPORT FINDINGS How does your company recognize safety accomplishments, behaviors, and performance?

3% 15%

10%

28% 44%

How does your company recognize safety accomplishments, behaviours, and performance?

Describe how your company develops and sustains leaders (general leadership).

50% 44%

45%

40%

40%

Axis Title

36%

35%

35%

30%

28%

30%

25%

25%

20%

15%

15%

10%

10% 5%

36%

20% 10%

3%

5%

0%

0% 0 …

1 …

15%

13%

15%

2 …

3 …

4 …

0% 0

1

2

3

4

BENCHMARKING REPORT FINDINGS How are employee’s key safety skills developed to recognize and mitigate hazards (safety

leadership)?

7% 10%

36% 47%

How do you ensure that training is relevant and effective?

7%

What programs do you have in place to encourage reporting of incidents and near misses?

Describe your organization’s incident investigation process.

2% 16%

8% 13% 13%

32%

32% 45%

4%

35% 40%

53%

BENCHMARKING REPORT FINDINGS What kind of auditing (internal and external) processes are implemented within your company to proactively learn and improve?

10%

How does your company use leading or lagging indicators to improve and sustain performance?

10% 12%

15%

33%

37%

40%

Please share an instance where your company has implemented or is developing a unique solution to workplace safety.

41%

How does your company share and/or adopt industry safety best practices outside your organizations from regional networks, peers, or other industries?

1% 13% 7%

3% 20%

1%

9% 24%

32% 47%

45%

BENCHMARKING REPORT FINDINGS What unique and innovative training program(s) is your company using to adapt to the current workforce and reach today's employees?

11%

How does your company continuously improve work processes that are successful?

10%

8%

2%

40%

14% 1%

31%

37%

46%

Overall Application Score: When considering the totality of the application, please provide a score for the nominee's safety programs and practices.

50% 38%

40%

40%

30%

20% 10% 0%

13%

9% 0% 0

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2 Judges Score

3

4

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