The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) – a non-profit international organization that serves to expand and improve the use of Tilt-Up as the preferred construction method – has announced the call for entries for the 2010 Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards. This year’s program includes a classification for crane operators, which is a first for this competition.
The Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards honor Al Engelman, a TCA past president and board member as well as a long-time supporter of the Tilt-Up industry. Engelman helped introduce this industry awards program that now bears his name. The safety awards program was developed to enhance the TCA’s overall mission to improve the industry through recognition and education, providing a new component emphasizing safety. The program is for self-performing contractors only. Contractors with a fatality in 2009 are ineligible.
TCA’s Safety Awards Program recognizes companies based on the following categories:
- Best Tilt-Up Safety Achievement Award: recognizes the firms with the lowest incident rate in 2009. Multiple companies with a zero incident rate will result in the award given to the company with the highest number of annual work hours.
- Zero Lost time Accident Achievement Award: provided to all submitting companies who achieved an incident rate of zero for 2009.
- Most Improved Safety Achievement Award: Recognizes the firm in each category with the most improved incident rate in 2009 from the numbers reported in 2008.
- Certificates of Recognition: Awarded to all companies whose incident rate fell below the national average for structure contractors, a number that was made available by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Honorable Mention: Extended to a company that is worthy of special recognition for their safety record.
Submissions are required at TCA headquarters by September 30, 2010. All entries must be signed by the person submitting the form as well as the owner, president or CEO. The winners will be announced at the 2011 World of Concrete in Las Vegas, Nev. on Jan. 20, 2011 during the TCA Annual Winter Meeting.
TCA was founded in 1986 to improve the quality and acceptance of site cast Tilt-Up construction, a construction method in which concrete wall panels are cast on-site and tilted into place. Tilt-Up construction is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States, combining the advantages of reasonable cost with low maintenance, durability, speed of construction and minimal capital investment. For more information about the TCA, visit www.tilt-up.org.