Nomination Forms:
Award Overview
This program honors leaders in our state's business community for achieving excellence in safety & health.
Award Sponsors
The Wisconsin Corporate Safety Awards are co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Safety Council and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.
Celebrating our 17th year, this awards program honors businesses for exemplary safety records and excellence in safety & health management.
These businesses are making safety a top priority. They have gone to extensive measures to assure their most valuable asset—their employees—are safe on the job.
AWARDS
The 2008 Wisconsin Corporate Safety Awards will be based on size of organization AND type of organization. A total of 17 grand awards will be presented. All award finalists receive a finalist certificate and publicity; perfect incidence rates will receive certificates.
A. Size of Organizations
Based on actual 2008 payroll hours worked are the number of paid work hours for the calendar year (including office hours, but excluding vacation and holidays). You must include all fulltime, part-time, seasonal and temporary employees who work under your organization’s supervision. Four size categories in all types except Category A Manufacturing, which will have five.
B. Types of Organizations
Category A: Manufacturing - NAICS Codes 31-33
Category B: Agricultural, Forestry, Transportation, Mining and Utilities - NAICS Codes 11-22
Category C: Construction - NAICS Code 23
Category D: Other - NAICS Codes 42-92
For assistance in determining your NAICS code, visit http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/naics-manual.html.
The Wisconsin Corporate Safety Award selection process involves two phases.
- In Phase I, statistical data relating to a company’s incidence rates for the past three years, with an emphasis on current full year's calendar data, was reviewed and a core group of finalists was selected. Deadline for phase 1 is the third Friday in January.
- In Phase II those finalists — nominees with the lowest incidence rates in each category — answered a series of subjective questions pertaining to workplace health and safety issues. Deadline for Phase II is the fourth Friday in February.
Each December the Award Nomination forms are available with a deadline of the third Friday in January.
Why Nominate:
- Benchmark: The process of nominating your organization requires you to benchmark where you have been, where you are, and where you are headed in safety. It can be used as an opportunity to evaluate your current situation, your prospects, and progress.
- Prestige: Organizations winning awards have been the subject of well-deserved press coverage in their local communities as well as in statewide newspapers and business magazines. Award winners have used the Corporate Safety Award to promote their organization and products in their internal communication, marketing material, website, sales presentations and publicity.
- Morale Booster: Many winners of these awards cite their workers as deserving the majority of the credit for the award. Many winning organizations use the award as an opportunity to show appreciation to their associates for a job well done.
Nomination Form:
- Corporate Safety Award Nomination (PDF)
- Deadline to submit 2010 calendar year data will be January 14, 2011
- Please contact Pam Kelly of WSC with questions at 800-236-3400 x1 or email Pam at pkelly@wisafetycouncil.org
Each phase needs to be submitted to:
Wisconsin Safety Council
PO Box 352, Madison, WI 53701
501 E Washington Ave, Madison, WI 53703
Fax: 608-258-3413
Phone: 1-800-236-3400
Email: wsc@wisafetycouncil.org
