Interagency Advisory Council on Loss Prevention
The purpose of the Safety Awareness Awards is
to promote and manage safety/loss reduction
issues, which are a continuing challenge to any
agency. When a work area takes a positive effort
to control, manage, and promote this sensitive
issue with positive results, recognition is
essential for continued participation. These
awards do not just affect an individual within a
department, but affect all employees, who were
involved in the process. External recognition is
uniquely important, and although there is no
monetary value to these awards, they definitely
relate to the statewide promotion of safety/loss
reduction and significantly improve employee
morale and productivity.
The IAC recently
changed the safety awards and the criteria for
issuing the awards. Previously, the safety
awards were in various categories and were
selected by a panel of judges. The categories
included Safety Program of the Year; Most
Creative Safety Campaign; Best Safety Training
Program; and Best Safety Awareness Event. The
previous awards were based on a fiscal year
period; however, the new criteria are based upon
a January 1 to December 31 time period. Because
the categories favored agencies and universities
that had more resources than others, the IAC
changed their selection criteria and award
structure to a three tiered system based on the
Olympic Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals.
The different levels of awards are based on
agency responses to an annual safety program
evaluation that is derived from risk management
best practices and scored by the Loss Prevention
Section within the Division of Risk Management.
The survey will be sent out in February of each
year and the awards will be presented at the May IAC meeting. |
