Todd Beach

Organization: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Todd is responsible for safety operations for Disney’s Magic Kingdom Attractions and Custodial operations. He and his operational partners have developed a safety champions meeting where operational leaders tasked with for safety throughout his area of responsibility meet regularly to discuss safety opportunities and best practices. His Custodial team was recently awarded the Florida Safety Council Large Business Safety Award for the improvements to their safety program made over the past 12 months.

Torben Begines, Safety Director

Organization: Cobra BEC, Inc., Auburn, WA

Torben’s outstanding dedication to Cobra’s Safety has been proven over the last year when he helped the company reach a milestone in 2011 with an EMR of .4927, incident rate of 1.10 and a DART Rate of 0.0. He has dedicated his life to Cobra BEC, Inc. safety for the past eight years and has increased awareness, decreased incidents on the job, implemented safety orientations and rainings. Torben works with all of Cobra BEC’s foremen in developing and implementing sited specific safety and fall protection plans. He travels to all of the company’s jobsites and conducts internal safety audits to make sure that all employees are following the safety plans and in the end make it home to their families at night.

Troy Bridges

Organization: Pinnacol Assurance

Troy continually goes above and beyond to bring high quality safety training to the community. He leverages partnerships with associations such as ASSE, the Home Builders Association and the Independent Electrical Contactors to offer high quality no or low cost safety training to the community.

Mike Garner

Organization: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Achievements: Chad is being saluted for taking on a new role supporting Entertainment and Engineering at the Magic Kingdom Park and he has made a difference in the lives of the cast members he supports. Recently Chad has been partnering with his leadership team to conduct safety roundtables to get real feedback from the cast on injury causation and to engage cast members in the safety process.

Amy Butler, VP EHS&S

Organization: Bausch and Lomb

Achievements: Amy is the consummate EHS&S leader and has developed a team and a safety program that assures compliance and integrates a vision and mission focused on hazard and environmental impact elimination taking a life-cycle view.

Nancy Charette

Organization: Xanterra South Rim, LLC., Grand Canyon, AZ

Achievements: Nancy is being saluted for her continued commitment to the safety of Xanterra South Rim’s 1,200+ employees, and is a Safety Trainer who also acts as the corporation’s Safety Officer. She is a continuing source of motivation and information for the entire staff who seek her out for guidance on safety issues.

Mike Garner

Organization: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Achievements: Mike is responsible for the industrial hygiene and ergonomics activities at Disney’s Magic Kingdom Park. He has taught the rest of the team, who are not industrial hygienists by education , to utilize the various industrial hygiene monitoring devices and ergonomic tools Disney has available in order to investigate and address indoor air quality and ergonomic concerns.

Mollie Hayes

Organization: Bausch and Lomb

Achievements: Mollie is recognized for being a great role model in the SH&E field, and is known for being knowledgeable, ambitious and very hard working. She will not let any piece of equipment come on site without understanding its hazards, or let anyone else use equipment until she herself knows how to use it and is comfortable training staff on its use.

Jennifer Johnson

Organization: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Achievements: Jennifer, who recently transferred to Disney’s Magic Kingdom Park is being recognized for immediately forging excellent partnerships with her leadership team. She supports the food and beverage operations from a cast safety and food safety perspective, and has implemented a new experiential learning session entitled Cast Safety Living Laboratory. It allows Disney’s culinary teams to learn about occupational hazards that can be found in kitchens and demonstrated that they can identify those hazards in a safe setting.

Amanda Kingsbury

Organization: Flanders Electric

Achievements: Amanda is recognized for her outstanding work ethic and desire to serve employees, as well as Flanders’ ASSE members. She listens to employees and serves their needs. Amanda uses creative and out-of –the-box thinking to help the efficiency of Flanders’ Safety and Health Department.

Sandra L. Kirsten

Organization: Safety Equation, Algonac, MI

Achievements: Sandra is being saluted for her exceptional dedication to the safety field. She always puts safety first in everything she does, from sitting in coal piles to be as close as possible to her crew, from going on top of blast furnaces, inside boilers and walking the grounds of job sites in the dead of winter or the middle of the night when duty calls. During one instance, she managed to pull a crew member out of the way of a collapsing coal pile near a blast furnace, essentially saving his life. She also personally accompanied an injured millwright to the hospital after an accident, just to keep him calm and distracted as doctors stitched his nearly severed fingers back. In addition, Sandra holds safety meetings for crews, provides on the job training and even brings donuts to workers who are under the city streets working on sewer lines, just to show she cares. She keeps up with the latest advances in the safety field by talking classes to add to her knowledge in the field, and has proven that there is room for women in today’s safety field.

Craig Marker

Organization: Thomas & Marker Construction Co., Marysville, OH

Achievements: Since taking over the Safety Manager position in 2011, Craig has embraced the organization, working daily not only to enforce safety in the workplace, but also to develop a culture of best practices. By taking the time to analyze previous practices at Thomas & Marker and spending time with associates to understand the reasoning behind the safety related choices they make, Craig has been able to put together a completely new approach to managing safety. He is well respected as a manager who cares enough to listen, but is strong enough to make decisions based on what is best for the organization as a whole. Craig has a vision for what safety needs to be at Thomas & Maker and continuously works to communicate its importance.

Lane McKnight

Organization: Pinnacol Assurance, Denver, CO

Achievements: Lane is dedicated to his profession and is passionate about what he does. He goes above and beyond to help other team members and clients with their safety concerns, and is a competent and active leader within the organization, ASSE and the community. When it comes to delivering safety training or material, engaging the worker is key to comprehension and retention. Lane believes that utilizing hands on components to your training and relating the material to practical/real world examples can make the learning more interesting, relevant and applicable.

Marc Moore

Organization: Black Hills National Forest, USDA Forest Service, SD

Achievements: Marc has been recognized for making a difference by re-invigorating the safety program at the Black Hills National Forest, and bringing back safety training to staff. He provides prompt response and thorough research to safety issues that have arisen during his tenure.

Nadine Ohlinger

Organization: Lake County Board of County Commissioners (LCBCC), Tavares, FL

Achievements: Nadine is known for her great safety attitude, and her efforts coordinating the LCBCC Safety Action Team (SAT).

Kimbra Parker

Organization: Flanders Electric

Achievements: Kimbra is being saluted for dedication to Flanders employees. She has put in numerous hours working with employees and supervisors implementing 6S.

Subbarao Palagummi

Organization: Kuwait Oil Company

Achievements: Subbarao is being saluted for implementing several HSE initiatives which have significantly improved the HSE performance of Deep Drilling Operations at Kuwait Oil Company, where he serves as and HSE Consultant. He has enhanced incident reporting practices by developing a customized and user friendly line management systems. This has significantly improved the incident reporting system, further investigations and taking immediate corrective actions. Subbarao also implemented HSE guidelines and pocket cards for visitors to drilling rigs, which enabled the visitors to adhere to rules and regulation in carrying out their work safely.

Harry Peppas

Organization: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Achievements: Understanding the importance of behavior observation, Harry implemented a positive behavior observation program where he recognizes contractors for going above and beyond for safety with safety T-shirts, ice cream bars, Safe-D Begins With Me pins and lanyards and Mickey Mouse stickers.

Tracy Richter

Organization: Time Warner Cable

Achievements: Tracy is being saluted for her outstanding performance, and for creating Time Warner’s safety course, “The Driver’s Rodeo”. During this exercise, technicians driving company vans are required to maneuver their full size vans through a parallel parking and backing course that is outlined/bordered with tightly positioned safety cones. Drivers are deducted points for rubbing, knocking over and running over cones as they complete the course. This initiative has driven friendly competition amongst the field technicians while fine tuning their driving skills, trying to win the program. By creating this initiative, Tracy has brought attention to safe driving while creating a fostering a fun environment to improve on driving skill and increase safety awareness.

Becky Skoluda, EHS Manager

Organization: HellermannTyton, Milwaukee, WI

Achievements: Becky started HellermannTyton’s safety program, which has given her great knowledge of regulations as well as potential hazards in her organization. From there she developed all of the safety policies that are now in place to protect employees. Not everyone is aware that this is a difficult task. She is not afraid to try new things or explore new options, if it means improving processes and a safer work environment. She is approachable and open to employees’ ideas and concerns.

Jeremy Turner

Organization: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Achievements: A safety intern at Disney’s Magic Kingdom, Jeremy has taken on responsibility for identifying confined spaces at the new Fantasyland expansion and partnering with the technical writing team to author confined space entry guidelines. He is also partnering with Engineering Services and the technical writing team to author the lockout tagout procedures for the new equipment associated with the expansion.

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Organization: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Achievements: As the Magic Kingdom Safety Manager, Chris is responsible for merchandise, security and costuming operations. In partnership with the merchandise leadership team, he has implemented a variety of safety practices that have resulted in a 30% year over year decline in total OSHA recordable incident rate.

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Organization: Hostess Brands

Achievements: Despite facing the uncertainty that has come with Hostess filing for bankruptcy protection twice in less than eight years, the Risk Services team continues to drive injury rates and workers comp costs down. The team has been forced to do more with less due to staff reductions and cost-cutting measures

Hostess’ safety program has been made stronger by pushing ownership down to the lowest levels. Instead of a dedicated safety person at each facility, each manager and supervisor has been given the tools to take responsibility for safety in their own facilities, departments and teams. The Corporate Risk Services team is there to lead and guide the program from a strategic perspective while the field-level managers drive day-to-day safety for the company employees.

Bausch and Lomb Global EHS+S Colleagues

Organization: Bausch and Lomb

Achievements: This safety team is being saluted for world class performance and a proactive approach. They focus on hazard elimination in terms of process lifecycle vs. hazard control after the fact. They are also responsible for the integration of sustainability, or people-planet-progress into the EHS&S mission and vision.

The IBM Integrated Health Services (IHS) Team

Organization: IBM

Achievements: This is a global team of safety, industrial hygiene, medical, wellness and health benefits professionals who are leaders in sustaining a company-wide culture of health and safety established over many decades and generations for IBM personnel. They have developed innovative global processes to improve the overall health of IBM employees, address local and global health priorities, provide safety and healthy work environments, design health benefits and health promotion programs to increase quality and reduce costs and support business continuity. They provide globally integrated, efficient and effective services in support of employee health and productivity.

Environmental Health and Safety Department

Organization: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Achievements: Ongoing dedication to protecting staff, visitors and patients to recognized safety hazards.

Schwan Shared Services Safety Team

Organization: The Schwan Food Company, St. Charles, IL

Achievements: This dedicated group of professionals supports a widely dispersed workforce of approximately 6,000 people. They are true Safety Road Warriors travelling to those they support, providing training, consultation, and inspection services for a comprehensive safety process. The team has combined their location visits to include an operational as well as a safety review. This highlights safety as an integral and essential business process. They also conduct quarterly safety reviews with their assigned district managers to keep safety “top of mind.”

EH&S Department at Arizona State University (ASU)

Organization: Arizona State University

Achievements: The ASU EH&S Department is a dedicated group of professionals who work diligently to keep all students, staff and faculty safe and healthy. In an effort to maintain a safe campus and curricula, they frequently bring faculty into their safety meetings, extra-professional activities and their celebrations, too! They are truly wonderful to work with!

Jerry Kucharski, Ed Springer and Jack Humphrey

Organization: Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, Hartford, CT

Achievements: They VOLUNTARILY stepped forward to be the Authorized Occupational Safety Trainers for the company as an additional, collateral duty. Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company’s workforce spans all 50 states, plus some foreign locations, and each employee typically works alone or is escorted by a customer representative. They share a passion for coaching employee through their work days so they can return safety home every day.

Sergeant First Class (SFC) Carol Burns

Organization: Headquarters 154th Regiment Response to Intervention (RTI)

Achievements: As Environmental Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) for the Medical Battalion Training site, SFC Burns has everything labeled, and had all of her MSDS sheets for all hazardous materials in her inventory. In addition, she had the MSDS labels on/or near the Hazardous Materials and any other material(s) that were on the shelves. SFC Burns’ binders were well organized and labeled as per guidelines, for which she received commendation from the environmental reps from CSJFTC.

Sergeant First Class (SFC) Todd Hatten

Organization: Headquarters 154th Regiment Response to Intervention (RTI)

Achievements: As Safety NCO for the Medical Battalion Training site, SFC Hatten had his binder organized and his safety board was updated for the Command Inspection.

Sergeant First Class (SFC) Mary Omary

Organization: Headquarters 154th Regiment Response to Intervention (RTI)

Achievements: SFC Omary does an outstanding job as Safety Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) for RTS-M. His binders and all required documentation are always on hand, and his Safety board is set up for ease of use by both the Cadre and the students.

University of North Carolina (UNC)– Chapel Hill EHS Department and Staff

Organization: University of North Carolina Department of Energy, Health and Safety

Achievements: The UNC EHS Department is recognized for their dedication, professionalism and commitment to excellence in making the university a safe and healthy place to teach learn and serve.

Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) EHS Team

Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

Achievements: The MCW EHS team is recognized for their outstanding service and professionalism working in the research environment. They create a culture of safety with the organization by always being willing to help, sharing their knowledge with the team and others at MCW, and being great “brand managers” for their EHS team when working with internal customers.

Universal Studios Hollywood (USH) Retail Team

Organization: Universal Studios Hollywood

Achievements: The USH Retail team is saluted for the recent launch of a safety awareness campaign for their workforce.

Universal Studios Hollywood (USH) Retail Team

Organization: Universal Studios Hollywood

Achievements: The USH Retail team is saluted for the recent launch of a safety awareness campaign for their workforce.

Murray Risk Management and Insurance – Risk Control Department

Organization: Murray Risk Management and Insurance

Achievements: Each individual on the team, Bill, Gene, Laurie, Jason, John and Doug all have their own style to working with clients. Over the years, these professionals have garnered many sincere thanks and praises from clients and co-workers for their services rendered. Their individual styles and service approach is what makes one of them successful. Murray is extremely proud to have this team working with our clients to prevent incidents, losses and save lives every day.

Wrigley – Global Safety & Environmental Leadership Team

Organization: Wrigley – Global Safety & Environmental Leadership Team

Achievements: The Wrigley – Global Safety & Environmental Leadership Team is saluted for making a difference in the lives of Wrigley associates. Wrigley CARES about the safety of their associates. Through Glen Eckberg’s vision and the team’s passion for safety they are on their way to world class safety. The CARES (Coaching Associates to Reinforce Excellence and Safety) observation program engages all factory associates in providing and receiving peer-to-peer coaching to recognize and avoid at-risk behavior while applauding superior safety conduct among peers.

Bechtel Power GBU ES&H Team

Organization: Bechtel Power GBU ES&H Team

Achievements: The Bechtel team is saluted for sustained improvement in recordable and lost-time injury rates for four years running. Current performance includes nearly 20 million work hours without a lost-time injury.

Holy Spirit Health System Occupational/Employee Health Team

Organization: Holy Spirit Health System Occupational/Travel Health

Achievements: This team works hard treating injured workers in their community and at their facility. The medical care and attention to other individuals comes many times before taking a break for lunch, going home on time, meetings and everything else. This is a group of professionals who are dedicated to their jobs and the health and safety of their community members.