Effective May 2013 Submissions for 2013 accepted November 1, 2013 through January 31, 2014

Community Enrichment Award Hazard Control Awards

Recognizes 1 (one) member organization which has contributed significantly to its local community in areas of safety, health or environmental efforts. – financial contributions – manpower – material resources – or other services The Iowa-Illinois Safety Council Award Committee will review all submissions and will make the final decision, pursuant to this award.

Submit materials supporting Community Enrichment Award application – Organization name, contact, & contact information – BEFORE January 31, 2014 – Terri Simmons Iowa-Illinois Safety Council 6200 Aurora Ave Ste 604W Urbandale IA

The Iowa-Illinois Safety Awards are now based on the submission of implemented hazard controls within IISC Member Organizations. A Hazard Control is a specific, identifiable change implemented to reduce or eliminate an individual’s exposure to a hazard in the workplace. – Engineering control, redesign, guarding – Work practice changes that eliminate or reduce the risk to a hazard – Improvements to the personal protective equipment used by workers – Changes for previously uncontrolled environmental risk – Training on its own for workers will not qualify as a hazard control!

Each member organization may submit as few as 3 and up to 5 hazard control projects for consideration by the awards committee. – Organizations meeting the minimum requirement will earn an award. – Organizations judged to have had outstanding controls will earn a “President’s Award” Each hazard control is to be submitted on a single PowerPoint Slide (see instructions on next slide) Applications to be submitted to after November 1, 2013 but BEFORE January 31, 2014 for consideration by the Awards Late submissions WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR 2013 AWARDS!

In an effort to share best practices received from the Hazard Control Recognition Program applications, IISC will publicize success stories – IISC’s 2014 Professional Development Conference & Expo – April 23 – 25, 2014 – DoubleTree by Hilton Cedar Rapids Convention Complex.

One PowerPoint slide per hazard control Any layout, you can: – Include pictures (before & after) – BRIEF descriptions of the hazard and benefit from control – Whatever will show the uniqueness of your project! – Include organization contact information in notes section (see notes section on this slide for template) – Send to before January 31,

New Safety Award Program Example Slides Follow

On the rare occasions we need to access the roof at Laura’s Soap & Safety, we wanted to ensure the ladder would not be blown down by the wind.

Applied Safe Lifting Here at Laura’s Soap & Safety, we are a close knit family and we often eat lunch together on a picnic table outside our offices. Often two of us would move this table around to minimize wind and sun/shade. This has often lead to much grunting and straining. After discussing proper lifting techniques and back injuries during a safety meeting, Joe, one of our employees noticed that it would be better lifting technique if we always had four people lift and share the load. Now we share the load as well as our lunch!

Hazardous Material Spill Response Teams Before: For the past several years, Laura’s Soap & Safety had one full Hazardous Material Spill Response Team, but they were all on first shift. We have been expanding our Second and Third shift operations. After: Recently, we were able to train enough employees to have full HazMat response on all three shifts, and several back-ups. We are now equipped to handle a spill within the facility during all shifts.

New Safety Award Program Slide Templates Follow For Example ONLY! Not required Formats! Contact Terri Simmons with questions ext. 225 or

Explanation of Project Before Before picture can be inserted here After After picture can be inserted here

Brief explanation of hazard After Photo of the project may be inserted here. Photo of hazard may be inserted here Brief explanation of how the hazard was controlled.