ECAO Safety Awards

August 5, 2021

Save the date for ECAO’s Safety Awards Virtual Presentation- Wednesday, September 1, 2021.

Typically this event is done during the ECAO Annual General Meeting, but ECAO is launching this event as an exclusive presentation of their winners, which will feature guest speakers to address new metrics in the area of health and safety for contractors.

This year the award expanded the criteria for smaller contractors and used safety program indicators to evaluate their health and safety records over 2020.

Award winners are:

G2 UNDER 20,000 – MASS ELECTRIC

G2 20,001-100,000 – AMPERE

G2 100,001-250,000 – MELLON

G2 250,001-500,000 – VOLLMER

G2 OVER 500,000 – BLACK & MCDONALD

G4 UNDER 20,000 – GEMOR

G4 20,001-100,000 – TP ELECTRIC

G4 100,001-250,000 – AECON

Registration details coming soon!

www.ecao.org

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