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BATON ROUGE— The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance, Inc. (GBRIA) announced the winners of its 27^th Annual Safety Excellence Awards. The awards were presented at a banquet held on Friday, March 17 at the L’Auberge Resort in Baton Rouge, LA. Approximately 700 guests attended the event, which featured entertainment from “The Cajun Comedian”, Kent Gonsoulin.

 

The award program was established in an effort to recognize excellent safety performance by contractors working in industrial facilities in 1996 under the leadership of Hal G. Ginn, Plant Manager of DSM Copolymer at the time. Ginn played an instrumental role as the chair of GBRIA in raising safety standards and expectations in industry in the Baton Rouge area, which has spread across the U.S. with other petrochemical and heavy industrial manufacturers.

 

GBRIA members who nominated their highest performing contractors include Air Liquide, Air Products, Americas Styrenics, BASF, CF Industries, Cornerstone Chemical, Delek – Krotz Springs Refinery, Dow, Eastman, Ethos Energy, ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Complex, ExxonMobil BRPO, ExxonMobil BRPP, Formosa Plastics, Grace, Honeywell (Baton Rouge), Hexion, Innophos, Koch Methanol Terminal, Linde, Lion Elastomers, Koura, Marathon Petroleum, Methanex, Nalco Water, NOVA Chemicals, Nucor Steel, Nutrien, Olin (St. Gabriel and Plaquemine), OxyChem (Convent and Geismar), Placid Refining, Rubicon, Shell Catalysts and Technologies, Shell Chemical (Geismar), Shell (Convent), Shintech Louisiana, SNF Flopam, Solvay USA, Syngenta Crop Protection, Veolia, and Westlake (Geismar and Plaquemine).

 

The winning contract companies each year demonstrated a level of safety excellence that includes thousands and millions of hours worked without injury, a commitment by management to educate workers, and a fostered zero-incident culture. GBRIA members nominated a total of 63 companies representing more than 250 million hours worked, 120 thousand employees and a combined total recordable incident rate of 0.19, the lowest number ever achieved by GBRIA’s nominees.

 

The 2023 GBRIA Contractor Safety Excellence Awards were presented in eight service categories with companies being further subdivided in each category by either Division I, Division II or Division III based on company size.

 

The following companies are GBRIA’s 2023 award recipients:

 

 

General Construction and Maintenance

Div. I (200K to 450K Hours):

1^st Place:   Pipe and Steel Industrial Fabricators

2^nd Place:  Arkel Constructors  

3^rd Place:  Volks Constructors

Div. II (900K to 1.6M Hours):

1^st Place:  AltairStrickland

2^nd Place: Optimal Field Services, LLC

3^rd Place:  Primoris Energy Services

Div. III (3M to 34.6M Hours):

1^st Place: Repcon

2^nd Place: EXCEL

3^rd Place:  Brown & Root Industrial Services & Worley Field Services (tie)

 

Civil Construction (300K Hours)

1^st Place:  Beard Construction Group

 

Commercial Construction (170K Hours)

1^st Place: The McDonnel Group

 

Crane & Rigging (290K to 1.6M Hours)

1^st Place: Deep South Crane & Rigging

2^nd Place: Bengal Crane

 

Specialty Trade Hard Craft

Div. I (281K to 1.5M Hours):

1^st Place:  Merit Electrical Inc.

2^nd Place: Westgate LLC

3^rd Place:  Cust-O-Fab Specialty Services

 

Div. II (2M to 4.3M Hours):

1^st Place:  Contech Control Services, LLC

2^nd Place: JVIC (A Zachry Group Company)

3^rd Place: Turner Specialty Services, LLC

 

Div. III (5M to 9.8M Hours):

1^st Place:   ISC Constructors

2^nd Place:  MMR Constructors

3^rd Place:  Triad Electric and Controls

 

Specialty Trade Soft Craft

Div. I (62K to 450K Hours):

1^st Place:   NextGen Scaffold Services

2^nd Place:  Specialty Application Services

3^rd Place:  Conco Services, LLC

 

Div. II (670K to 2M Hours):

1^st Place: 3S Team

2^nd Place: Thorpe Specialty Services Corporation

3^rd Place: Industrial Specialists

 

Div. III (6M to 18M Hours):

1^st Place:  Brock Services

2^nd Place: Apache Industrial Services

3^rd Place: BrandSafway

 

Technical Support

Div. I (29K to 135K Hours):

1^st Place:  Bunker Gear Specialists

2^nd Place: Bertrand Inspection Services

3^rd Place:  Loadstar Product Handling and Site Logistics

 

Div. II (190K to 423K Hours):

1^st Place: Technical and Environmental Services

2^nd Place: Athlon Solutions

3^rd Place: Austin Fire Systems

 

Div. III (6.2M to 9.3M Hours):

1^st Place: Acuren Inspection, Inc.

2^nd Place: Total Safety U.S.

3^rd Place: PSC Group

 

 

Marine Construction (150K Hours)

1^st Place: Stewart Constriction

 

 

 

GBRIA also announced Performance Contractors as the winner of the Community Service Award and Apache Industrial Services as the winner of the Innovation Award.

 

This year, we had two top awards; the 2023 Hal G. Ginn Safety Excellence Award, was earned by AltairStrickland and Brock Services for the best overall safety performance of all nominees.