The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance has announced the winners of its 29th Annual Safety Excellence Awards. GBRIA members nominated a total of 49 companies for the awards, representing more than 251 million hours—or 29,000 years—worked. Baton Rouge-based Performance Contractors took home t he Hal G. Ginn Award for best overall safety performance. Brown & Root Industrial Services won the Community Service Award, and Cajun Industries and Performance Contractors Inc. each won an Innovation Award. Other winners are as follows: General Construction and Maintenance Division I (195,000-365,000 hours worked): RES Contractors Division II (1.4 million-7 million hours worked): Turner Industrial Maintenance Division III (9.6 million-38 million hours worked): Performance Contractors Specialty Trade — Environmental Division I (200,000-3.1 million hours worked): Insight Environmental Specialty Trade — Soft Craft Division I (400,000-1 million hours worked): Industrial Specialists Division II (2.4 million-4.7 million hours worked): BrandSafway Division III (8.1 million-13 million hours worked): Apache Industrial Specialty Trade — Hard Craft Division I (53,000-1.7 million hours worked): PALA Interstate Division II (4.4 million-7.1 million hours worked): SWAT Division III (19 million hours worked): MMR Constructors Technical Support Division I (10,000-506,000 hours worked): Precision Inspection Services Division II (800,000-3.4 million hours worked): IRISNDT Division III (5.8 million-11.2 million hours worked): Total Safety The awards program was established in 1996 by the late Hal G. Ginn, then plant manager of DSM Copolymer, to recognize outstanding safety performance by contractors working in GBRIA member industrial facilities. GBRIA is a nonprofit comprising more than 70 industrial facilities in and around the Baton Rouge and New Orleans metros. ...read more read less