Enter Your Company Data for an ACA Safety Award

Submissions for ACA's 2010 Safety Awards Program are now being accepted through April 15, 2010, via the association’s web-based electronic entry form at http://www.paint.org/member/safety/. The awards will be presented for safety performance based on a member plant's eligibility, and certificates and announcements will be accomplished in May 2010 in order to be closer the actual timeline for compiling and submitting and safety data for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

The purpose of this program is to provide valuable data on the safety record of our industry, which helps ACA advocate our industry's commitment to workplace safety with various regulatory agencies. In addition, this information also aids you in assessing the effectiveness of your safety programs as compared to others in the industry and the industry as a whole.

To ensure your plant's eligibility, please enter your site data electronically via our website no later than April 15, 2010. Please remember that our database does NOT save prior year data and all five years must be entered each time. For all companies submitting safety data for facilities located outside the United States, please ensure you identify them in the appropriate space on the electronic form.

To allow us to report the data in comparable groupings, all forms must have the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for the facility being submitted. The SIC is published by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, and is superseded by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). No entries will be processed without the SIC or NAICS Code for the facility.

There are four categories of Safety Awards:

Awards of Excellence - The Safety Award of Excellence will be given to member locations in various sized categories which establishes zero death and total lost work day cases involving days away form work and/or restricted work activities for the subject five year period. More than one location in each size category may qualify for this award. A location which receives the Award of Excellence will not be considered for any other subsequent award.

Awards of Honor - The Award of Honor will be given to member locations in various sized categories which establishes the lowest rate of death and lost work day cases involving days away form work and/or restricted work activities per total employee hours worked for the latest calendar year reported. More than one location in each size category may qualify for this award. A location which receives the Award of Honor will not be considered for any other subsequent award.

Awards of Commendation - The Award of Commendation will be given to member locations in various sized categories which establishes the lowest rate of death and days away-from-work cases for the latest calendar year reported. More than one location is each size category may qualify for this award. A location which receives the Award of Commendation will not be considered for any other subsequent award.

Awards of Merit - The Award of Merit will be given to the member location in each size category for the greatest improvement shown in its safety record for the reporting year as compared to the base year. The current base year will be the year of the most recent injury/illness experience. The last base year will be the average of the three years prior to the year upon which the safety award is based. The rates calculated for the Award of Honor will be the criteria for determining the percent improvement for the Award of Merit.

After you submit your data, you will receive a confirmation email containing the data you entered which may be kept for your records. You may also print each screen before you hit the submit button, and save the print outs as hard copy records.

For more information: contact ACA's Skip Edwards.

Date Posted: January 29, 2010