By Chad Engle, Loss Prevention Manager and Safety Specialist
I am very excited to announce that this year’s Money for Minutes program has been expanded to include ten $500 awards for safety committees that are drawn from the pool of committees that meet the Money for Minutes criteria. This is up from five $500 awards last year.
During the 2023 calendar year NIRMA will continue to encourage our members to maintain an active and effective safety committee with the Money for Minutes program. As in years past, to qualify for the chance at one of ten $500 Money for Minutes awards a member safety committee must do the following:
- Hold at least 4 quarterly safety committee meetings.
- Investigate and discuss every incident/claim/injury that occurred during the previous quarter and provide recommendations as to how similar events could be prevented in the future.
- Submit the meeting minutes, including the recommendations, to NIRMA for review.
- NIRMA recommends investigating and discussing near misses as well as incidents that result in damage or injury. We can learn just as much from near misses.
- Please do not simply state that an incident was deemed to be “unpreventable” or “unavoidable.” Truly unpreventable incidents are incredibly rare, do your best to develop recommendations that if implemented would prevent the incident from reoccurring.
Safety committees will have until the end of January 2024 to submit their 4th quarter minutes. The ten
Money for Minutes winners will be drawn in early February of 2024 and notified shortly after. Safety committee meeting minutes can be emailed to my attention at chad@nirma.info. Please let me know if you have any questions.
