Safety Innovation Awards Criteria

• Eligibility

  PCA Member companies are eligible. All types of plants and facilities qualify. In addition to full- production cement plants, grinding-only facilities, slag operations, and distribution terminals are also eligible. Vendors to member companies may also submit entries. More than one project may be submitted by the same firm, and multiple entries are encouraged. Projects must have been completed in 2018.

   

• Entry Materials

  Along with your entry form and written summary include at least two photos of the project—preferably in an electronic, high resolution jpeg format (300 dpi). Include both tight, close-up shots to illustrate the subject in particular and wide shots to show how the practice or project fits into the overall plant.
  
  Remember, photographic quality counts. Because the entries will be used to communicate safety tips throughout the industry and as illustration for cement safety guidelines, photographic quality is a factor in judging the winners.

• Judging Criteria

  Entries will be judged by members of the Occupational Health and Safety Committee and other independent cement industry experts. Criteria include:

  • Innovation

  • Effectiveness

  • Risk Prevention

  • Ease of use by plant personnel/contractors

  • Ease of construction/implementation

  • Solves a difficult or persistent safety problem in the cement industry

  Each winning facility will receive a check for a Celebration for Safety.