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Employee Recognition Program for Safety Awareness

***"Sitewide Safety Steward"* *(S3)***

This program is designed to seek out and recognize outstanding awareness and implementation of health and safety improvements and corrective actions.

Nominations of noteworthy performance are sought from employee, management, and the BNL professional safety staff. It functions in a similar manner to the BNL Environmental Awareness Program.

Program Description

Brookhaven National Laboratory's (BNL) mission is to produce excellent science in a safe, environmentally responsible manner with the cooperation, support and appropriate involvement of our many communities. A strong program to correct safety deficiencies and strive for continual improvement of the health and safety program is an essential element of successful accomplishment of this mission and BNL’s Occupational Safety & Health Management System. The BNL Safety Employee Recognition (S3) Program reflects the BNL and Department of Energy accident and injury prevention goals and policies and represents an ongoing effort to make safe operations an integral part of the BNL operating philosophy.

Applicability

The S3 Program applies to all BNL employees, contractors, visitors, and guests.

Nomination Process

Employees, supervisors, managers, and the SHSD professional safety staff are invited to submit written nominations for the award as per the following categories.

Description of Nomination	Number of Recipients
Co-Workers Nomination of outstanding workers for a one-time accomplishment or for continual safety awareness and leadership.	Up to 5 awarded
Line Organization nomination of outstanding staff member for a one-time accomplishment or for a continual safety ethic.
SHSD nomination of a non-ESH&Q line organization staff member for support of the deployment of a new initiative or outstanding assistance to BNL in implementing existing OSH requirements and programs.

The S2/S3 Council used to review the nominations and select the recipients.

Submitting a Project:

The criteria a individual nomination to be eligible for consideration by the S2/S3 Council are listed on the S3 Criteria page.
Employees use the S3 Nomination form available from this link to submit a suggestion for a safety improvement.
Submit forms to S3 Program Manager, Nicole Bernholc, Building 120 or email to bernholc@bnl.gov.

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