This year’s award recipients will be recognized virtually at the 2020 Annual Business Meeting and in-person at the Specialty & Custom Chemicals Show in Fort Worth, TX on April 14-16, 2021.

Click here to register for the 2020 Annual Business Meeting.

Thank you to our judges for their leadership in reviewing all applications!

• Brian Bourgeois, HR/Employee Development Manager, ChemDesign
• Lizzette Danner, Environmental Manager, Sun Chemical Corporation
• Dan Hoeft, Plant Manager, Avatar Coorporaton
• Cathy Spigarelli, Corporate EH&S and Product Safety Manger, Encapsys LLC
• Polly Swindoll, EHS/QA Manager, Ortec, Inc.
• Joe Welch, Director of EHS&S, MFG Chemical

The Performance Improvement Awards Program is a recognition program focusing on the five Core Principles in SOCMA’s Environmental, Health, Safety and Security Program-ChemStewards:

1. Stakeholder Communications
2. Product Stewardship
3. EHS&S in Planning and Operations
4. Employee Training and Engagement
5. Resource and Waste Minimization

Awards are submitted for a specific period of time. For the 2020 awards, applications are evaluated for 2019 Performance Improvement.

Award Applications are based on these Five Core Principles and specifically take into account best practices and principles that demonstrate continuous improvement beyond basic requirements of ChemStewards and government-mandated programs.

There are five types of awards:

• Gold Award(s)
• Silver Awards
• Bronze Awards
• Educational Outreach Award
• Sustainability Award