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Best Safety Innovation

The SWANA Best Safety Innovation award showcases an exemplary safety innovation undertaken by the solid waste industry during the previous year to reduce hazards and accidents, develop company regulations and best practices, or improve worker safety.

Eligibility

Applicant must be an organization that collects, processes, recycles, or otherwise disposes municipal solid waste, or designs landfill systems and/or works around their components. The individual submitting the application must be a SWANA member.

Judging

Safety Award applications will be reviewed by members of the SWANA Safety Committee. Additional information may be requested verbally or in writing in order to evaluate the application further. The decision of winner(s) by the Committee is final.

Awards

Winners will be announced on Thursday, June 29 with the awards ceremony that took place in September at WASTECON® 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Application Questions

  1. What is the primary activity of the applicant organization?
  2. Please describe your Safety Innovation for calendar or fiscal year 2022. (Limit 500 words)
  3. How did you objectively measure the success of your program and what were the results based upon that measurement? (Limit 750 words)
  4. What one thing sets your innovation apart from the other potential applicants and why? (Limit 100 words)

OPTIONAL: Upload any supporting data or documentation. (Limit 5 pages)

Safety Award Sponsors

SmarTruck-HD logo

SmarTruck HD

One of the most trusted names in commercial duty mobile blind spot video products.

smartruckhd.com

Safe Fleet Logo: Driving Safety Forward

Safe Fleet

By making fleets smarter, we make people safer.

safefleet.net

Fire Rover Logo - 2015

Fire Rover

Ensure the safety of your business by detecting and extinguishing fires before they start.

firerover.com

Environmental Solutions Group - A Dover Company

Environmental Solutions Group (ESG)

The ESG family of companies provide cutting edge solutions for the solid waste industry.

doveresg.com

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