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GEAPS Opens Enrollment for 2009 Safety Awards Program

With the grain industry’s risk of engulfment and explosion, avoiding work-loss injury or illness at your facility is its own reward.

Each year, though, the Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) likes to go one step further and formally recognize outstanding safety achievements within the industry by rewarding companies with exceptional safety records.

To that end, GEAPS is pleased to announce the launch of the 2009 Safety Awards Program.

The 2009 Safety Awards will be distributed at a public ceremony during Exchange 2010 in Wichita, KS and will honor companies and facilities with verifiable records of achievement during 2009.

The program is not only for grain-storage facilities, but also for suppliers, engineers and millwrights who are in the industry, too.

To enroll your facility, click here for an application form and fax (952-929-1318) or mail it (4248 Park Glen Rd., Minneapolis, MN 55416) back to the GEAPS office, with the appropriate enrollment fee ($60 for facilities employing a GEAPS member, $90 for non-member facilities) before the Dec. 31, 2008.

2007 Safety Awards:

GEAPS honored 27 companies at Exchange 2008 in Omaha, NE for their outstanding safety records in 2007.

The companies, representing 387 separate grain facilities, recorded nearly 13.1 million employee hours without a work-related lost-time injury or illness during 2007.

For complete details and a list of winners of the 2007 Safety Awards program, click here.

For more information, call GEAPS at 952-928-4640.