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Health and Safety
The Canadian Gas Association’s Safety Awards for Excellence mark the achievements of the natural gas industry’s efforts to improve health and safety.
Corporate Safety Awards
These are awarded for injury avoidance/reduction and vehicular safety, based on statistics collected by the CGA Health and Safety Community of Practice.
- Employee Safety: This is awarded for injury avoidance/reduction, based on statistics collected from the CGA Health and Safety Community of Practice.
- Vehicular Safety: This is awarded for vehicular safety, based on statistics collected from the CGA Health and Safety Community of Practice.
Leadership Safety Awards
These are awarded to individuals who go above and beyond to demonstrate leadership in health and safety.
- Community Safety Champion: recognizing excellence and leadership in fostering public awareness and education about the safe use of natural gas. This award recognizes individuals or groups who make significant contributions to public safety relating to the use of natural gas and/or the work of the natural gas delivery industry in Canada.
- Employee Safety Champion: recognizing individuals or teams for consistently demonstrating high safety standards, taking proactive measures to identify and address risks, and going beyond their roles to influence and educate others to be safe.
- Life Saving: a tribute to extraordinary individuals whose swift and decisive actions have averted potential tragedies, preventing the loss of life or serious injury. This accolade honors those whose courage and quick thinking in critical moments made the crucial difference between disaster and safety.
- Safety Innovation: recognizing trailblazing individuals or teams who have demonstrated unparalleled creativity and ingenuity in developing solutions that significantly enhance workplace safety. This award celebrates those who, through their inventive spirit, have contributed to the evolution of safety practices and systems.
- Outstanding Driver: recognizing drivers who consistently demonstrate safe, respectful and defensive driving skills while undertaking their work.
Customer Service
Michael Mulcahy Award for Excellence and Innovation in Customer Care and Service
The Michael Mulcahy Award recognizes significant achievement, over and above everyday activities, by CGA members of the natural gas delivery industry in the area of excellence and innovation in care and service to natural gas users/customers.
The award will also serve to help guide other CGA member organizations’ in their commitment to excellent and innovative customer service. Through participation in the Mulcahy Award Program, all will benefit from exposure to the efforts of others in the industry, thereby raising its overall standard of customer care – a huge priority for Mike Mulcahy in his many years of service to customers in the industry.
Environmental
Environmental Stewardship Awards
These are awarded for superior performance in the operation/maintenance of gas infrastructure leading towards a low-emission future.
- Operating Practices: An award recognizing superior performance in the building, operating and/or maintenance of gas energy infrastructure including methodologies and techniques that can be shared industry-wide to help nationally in the preservation of Canada’s air, land and aquatic resources.
- Innovation in Emissions Reduction: An award that would recognize superior performance in the reduction of overall emissions through increased efficiency in every-day downstream usage applications, the development and introduction of new innovative technologies for end-use, the role of gas energy in replacing other, higher emitting fuels in non-traditional areas and/or addressing fugitive or operationalized methane emissions both upstream and downstream of the traditional measurement meter.
Human Resources
Young Energy Leader of the Year
The Young Energy Leader of the Year Award is intended to recognize an emerging leader forty years of age and under who has demonstrated potential to guide/pilot the gas energy industry of the future from a business, environmental, regulatory and/or public service perspective.
Leadership
President’s Award for Excellence
Recognizing significant leadership by a person, group or organization in dealing with and/or addressing major events or incidents, unique or special circumstances/situations – those deemed out of the ordinary, that an organization has encountered.