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At a Thursday night banquet at L’Auberge Casino & Hotel, the Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance announced the winners of its 30th annual Safety Excellence Awards.
The awards program was established in 1996 by the late Hal G. Ginn, then plant manager of DSM Copolymer, to recognize outstanding safety performance by industrial contractors and GBRIA member facilities. GBRIA represents more than 80 industrial sites in 11 parishes across southeast Louisiana.
In total, GBRIA members nominated 42 companies that worked more than 200 million hours.
Loadstar and MMR Constructors, both headquartered in Baton Rouge, each took home a Hal G. Ginn Award for best overall safety performance.
ExxonMobil and Midwest Cooling Tower Services won the Partnership in Safety Award; PSC Group won the Innovation in Safety Award; and Brown & Root Industrial Services and Performance Contractors won Community Service Awards.
Other winners are as follows. (Divisions are based on company size and hours worked, with Division I recognizing smaller companies with fewer hours worked and Division III recognizing larger companies with more hours worked.)
General Construction and Maintenance
- Division I: RES Contractors
- Division II: Turner Industrial Maintenance
- Division III: Turner Industries Group
Specialty Trade – Environmental
- Division I: Evergreen North America Industrial Services
Specialty Trade – Hard Craft
- Division I: Reliant Recycling
- Division II: MMR Constructors
Crane and Rigging
- Division I: TNT Crane & Rigging
Specialty Trade – Soft Craft
- Division I: BrandSafway
- Division II: Brock Services
Commercial Construction
- Division I: Arkel Constructors
Technical Support
- Division I: Loadstar
- Division II: Axion Logistics
- Division III: PSC Group
“At the end of the day, this is about people going home safely to their families,” says Connie Fabre, GBRIA’s president and CEO. “The companies recognized here are doing the hard work to make that happen day in and day out. They’re setting the bar for what safety should look like across our region.”
