Region X VPPPA 2009

Awards

Winners


Region X VPP Outreach Award

Bill Rippon, from Georgia Pacific Gypsum LLC, has done an outstanding job of being a positive spokesperson for VPP and the VPPPA.  During the last year, Bill hosted 5 VPP site visits from 5 different companies who were working toward VPP. Bill traveled to several companies to discuss VPP and he also conducted VPP presentations for American Industrial Hygienist Association (AIHA) and for DOSH Region 3 & 5 at their Safety day at the Tacoma office. Bill also participates on the Region X BOD as Director at Large and submits the Region X round up summary information to the National VPPPA magazine the Leader.


Region X Safety and Health Outreach Award

CH2M-WG Idaho, LLC, Batelle Energy Alliance, and the Department of Energy Idaho Operation have joined together to share their safety culture by providing School Safety Assemblies to Elementary Schools in the communities of southeastern Idaho.  Volunteers from the three companies take safety topics to the schools.  They provide ten different safety topics to each class during the school day requiring the different topics to be presented as many as ten different times.  Not only does this activity provide valuable safety information to the students and teachers, it saves the school gas money that would be spent if travel was involved to transport the students to a central location.  During 2009, this activity touched the lives of over 1000 elementary students.

Region X Innovation Award

No nominees for this award in 2009

Region X 2009 Special Government Employee


Jeff Carlson


Region X Chairperson Award

Kemmer Sorrel
Selection Criteria
for the Region X Outreach Awards
The Awards Committee will make its judgment based on the following criteria:

Effort Involved

The Committee will look at a variety of aspects of efforts, including the commitment of resources (such as staff time, travel and/or dollars invested); or for a group plant managers and corporate officers) involved.

IMPACT Region X VPP Outreach Award

The Awards Committee will consider the impact on the VPP of the outreach efforts during the previous year in and industries receiving outreach.This includes the relation of the nominee to the organization that received the outreach (such as whether it is a direct competitor or first outreach effort or part of a series of invitations extended by the recipient.The VPPPA will also consider evidence of results such as VPP application problems solved, VPP Application Workshop attendance generated, VPP applications submitted and VPP approvals.

Safety and Health Outreach Award

The Awards Committee will consider the impact of the outreach efforts during the previous year in companies and industries receiving outreach. This includes there relalotion of the nominee to the organization that received the outreach (such as different industry) and any known problems solved by the outreach and demonstrated results.

Originality

The Committee will consider whether any unique approaches or mechanisms were used in the outreach that could be utilized by other VPPPA members.
Selection Criteria
for the Region X Outreach Awards
The Awards Committee will make its judgment based on the following criteria:

Degree of Innovation

The Committee will judge how significant the change is (how new and different) from approaches already in use across the country. It may be technical protection, control of a hazard
or a management system or a combination of the two. It should be a first of its kind.

Impact at the Nominee(s) Site(s)

The Region X Awards Committee will be interested in what difference the innovation has made in the previous year.The impact need not necessarily be quantified, such as reduction of injuries or workers’ compensation costs, but may include an Increase of worker acceptance of needed protection. The nominator would be expected to give evidence of this impact.

Impact on Others, Nationally or Globally

The Region X Awards Committee will be interested in the innovation’s impact on other companies where it has been adopted and OSHA’s opinion of the innovation. This maybe measured by numbers of visits to the nominee’s site to see and discuss the innovation, requests to make visits to other sites for interviews or articles concerning the innovation by the media, use of the innovation by other sites and any evidence of impact known to these other sites as a result.
Region X VPPPA Award Nomination Form

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