MBMA Announces Manufacturer Safety Award Winners For 2010
Cleveland, OH - The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) presented its Safety Awards at the group’s Spring Meeting held May 1-3, 2011 in San Antonio, Texas. The awards are MBMA’s annual recognition of metal building systems manufacturers who show exceptional commitment to assuring workplace safety.
“A total of 46 plant facilities participated in MBMA's Quarterly OSHA Injury Statistics Program,” stated Charles Praeger, Assistant General Manager of MBMA. “Awards were presented based on our analysis of the submitted data.”
MBMA re-vamped their long-standing Safety Awards Program in 2010. They first appointed a Steering Committee that recommended the establishment of a Safety Committee and the development of a new Safety Awards Program. The new program is patterned after OSHA safety rules. Their previous program had run from fourth quarter to third quarter each year. The Steering Committee changed this to an annual award based on a calendar year. “They toughened up the standards too,” said Praeger. In 2009, 29 plant facilities won awards. For 2010, four companies won the top awards. MBMA also created new awards that would recognize those firms who had achieved the greatest percentage in improved safety performance in various categories.
From the 46 manufacturing facilities nationwide that submitted data, 36 awards were presented – and some were given to multiple locations within the same company. MBMA’s criteria stipulates that winning firms must have work-related accident and illness rates that are significantly below OSHA-reported averages for the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 332311, which is Prefabricated Metal Building and Component Manufacturing.
For the Superior Overall Safety Record under the new rules of the Award Program, the goal is to surpass 50% and greater than the national average for SIC Code 3448. For this past year, the national average for recordable cases was a 3.3 incident rate, down from the previous year of 6.3 for “Prefabricated Metal Buildings and Component Manufacturing.” A plant without a fatality within a company can qualify for an award.
In addition to recognizing a company in the Superior Overall Safety area, MBMA created a number of Safety Improvement Awards that recognize performance improvements in one of three categories:
• Achievement of a 20% Reduction in OSHA Work Case Occurrences plus Reduction in Restricted Duty Cases in 2010 over 2009;
• Achievement of a 20% Reduction in Other Recordable Cases in 2010 over 2009; and
• No Recordable Cases in 2010.
Awards were presented at the following levels to individual plant locations:
Superior Overall Safety Record
Dean Steel Buildings, Inc., Thomasville, Georgia
NCI Building Systems, Inc., Lexington, Tennessee
Oakland Metal Buildings, Inc., Florence, Alabama
Ruffin Building Systems, Inc., Oak Grove, Louisiana
Schulte Building Systems, L.P., Effingham, Illinois
2010 Improved Safety Award: Reduction in OSHA Work Case Occurrences and Restricted Duty Cases
American Buildings Company - Eufaula, Alabama; Carson City, Nevada
Behlen Building Systems - Columbus, Nebraska
Bluescope Buildings North American, Inc. - Jackson, Tennessee; St. Joseph, Missouri; Rainsville, Alabama; Annville, Pennsylvania
Chief Buildings - Grand Island, Nebraska
Gulf States Manufacturers - Starkville, Mississippi
Kirby Building Systems, Inc. - Portland, Tennessee
NCI Building Systems, Inc. - Lexington, Tennessee; Houston, Texas; Monticello, Iowa
Nucor Building Systems - Waterloo, Indiana
Schulte Building Systems, L.P. - Hockley, Texas
2010 Improved Safety Award: 20% Reduction in OSHA Other Recordable Cases
American Buildings Company - El Paso, Illinois; Eufaula, Alabama
Behlen Building Systems - Columbus, Nebraska
Bluescope Buildings North America, Inc. - Visalia, California; Annville, Pennsylvania
NCI Building Systems, Inc. - Elizabethton, Tennessee; Lexington, Tennessee; Caryville, Tennessee
Schulte Building Systems, L.P. - Effingham, Illinois; Hueytown, Alabama
United Structures Of America, Inc. - Portland, Tennessee
Vulcan Steel Structures, Inc. - Adel, Georgia
2010 Improved Safety Award: No Recordable Cases
Dean Steel Buildings, Inc., Thomasville, Georgia
Oakland Metal Buildings, Inc., Florence, Alabama
Ruffin Building Systems, Inc., Oak Grove, Louisiana
Schulte Building Systems, L.P., Effingham, Illinois
About the Metal Building Manufacturers Association
MBMA has served metal building systems manufacturers and suppliers since 1956. Its membership represents more than $1.6 billion in annual steel shipments and accounts for approximately 39% of the total non-residential low-rise construction market in the United States. MBMA provides engineering leadership through the many research programs that it sponsors annually, often in coordination with major universities and engineering schools throughout North America. This research is used to improve the performance, efficiency and quality of metal building systems and to elevate the technology used to produce them. For more information, go to www.mbma.com.