Hard Hat Safety Awards

Safety is the most important part of the work you do. The Daily Reporter wants to recognize and tell your safety stories.

The Hard Hat Safety Awards honors companies, organizations, construction projects and individuals for their continued, successful work keeping employees and the public safe. We’re looking for information on:

A time your safety plan averted an accident.
A particularly dangerous project where you implemented new safety measures.
Unique ways you’re making safety a primary part of your culture.
The use of new design techniques or products that made a project safer for workers or the eventual occupants.
Ways that an individual, company or organization has gone above and beyond in their efforts.

Safety can mean a lot of things so we want you to think outside the box with your nomination. How has the nominee played a role in the advancement of safety for the individuals that work on the project or the people that will rely upon and occupy the project once it’s done.

We’re looking for nominations that fit into these categories:

General Contractor
Subcontractor/Specialty Contractor
Engineering/Architecture Firm
Individual Safety Professional/Advocate
Project (an entire project where safety was paramount)
Project Owner (Developer or Public Agency)
Supplier
Service Provider
Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to Safety

Please take the time to answer as many of the questions below as you can. Considering the categories are diverse, an answer is only required on one of the questions but providing more information will give you a better chance of being honored.

Hard Hat Safety Awards Nominations

Are you nominating a company, project or an individual?
If you're nominating an individual, please provide their name and position (if not, please skip):
First and Last Name
Company
Position
If you're nominating a project, please provide the project name (If not, please skip):
Project Name
Project Contact
Project Contact Email
Project Contact Phone
Company you're nominating (If you're nominating a person or project, please include the individual's info or the main project contact here):
Company Contact Name
Company Name
Email Address
Phone Number
Your Contact information (if different from above)
Name
Company
Email Address
Phone Number
Company's safety details (if applicable)
Safety Manager Name
Email Address
Phone Number
Please answer as many of the questions below that make sense to your nomination. Depending on if you're nominating an individual, company or project, certain questions may not apply to your nomination. Ultimately, what we're looking for is a story of how the person, company or project put an emphasis on safety and saw success because of it. An answer is only required on at least one of the below questions but providing more information will give the nominee a better chance of being honored. If you have a lot to say (and we hope you do!), feel free to upload a separate document at the end of the survey.
Tell us about a time when the nominee's safety plan worked. (This could be a time when the safety plan averted a specific accident, or a time when implementation ran smoothly).
Tell us about a time when the nominee started a project that required them to update their safety plan or create something entirely new to suit the needs of that project. This could relate to a company, an individual or a specific project.
Tell us about the unique ways the nominee's company incorporates safety into its culture.
If this nomination is for an individual, tell us about the ways they've championed safety efforts in their business and respective field?
If this nomination is for a specific project that required an enhanced safety plan and was successful because of it, please provide specific details on what was implemented, why, and how it worked out.
If this nomination is specific to a project owner (developer or public agency) tell us how the nominee's organization has played a role in promoting safety on all its job sites. How has the nominee made safety a part of the culture despite different settings and different teams?
If this nomination is specific to an architect, engineer, supplier or service provider, explain to us the unique role the nominee's organization has played in making projects safe, despite the fact that they're likely not on the job site each day.
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2020 HONOREES

CG Schmidt
Dan Parente, Hunzinger Construction
Matt Horton, Joel Becker and Dan Von Rueden, Hunzinger Construction
Jeremy Finger, Mortenson
Ken Moczynski, Mortenson
Stephen Jandrowski, Balestrieri Environmental & Development
VA Soldiers Home
VJS Construction Services

HARD HAT SAFETY PANEL

Don Moen is human resources and safety director for Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin where he leads a staff of several safety managers. Moen and his team provide safety consultation services to ABC members, which includes regular site visits, and works closely with members to enhance job site safety. He has served ABC and its members for more than 25 years. Moen is a former business owner and adjunct professor for Construction Safety Management at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

Dan Burazin has been the director of safety and health for the Associated General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee for more than 25 years. His previous work experience includes three years with a local general contractor as its operations manager in charge of personnel, equipment and safety, and 10 years with a Milwaukee-based steel fabricator as its plant manager. In addition to his duties as safety director for the AGC, Burazin has been teaching courses at MSOE in the Architectural Engineering/Construction Management Department for 20 years, as well as Marquette University in the Construction Management Department. He has also taught Safety Management courses for the national Associated General Contractors of America based in Arlington, Virginia.