<p><span style="font-size:22px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>BWC Safety Innovation Award</strong></span></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">BWC established the Safety Innovation&nbsp;Award to encourage and recognize innovative solutions that reduce the risk of workplace injuries and illnesses. Preventing harm benefits everyone - employers and employees alike. Showcasing the most successful innovations helps other Ohio employers in their safety efforts and can inspire them to develop innovative solutions of their own.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">The 2017 BWC Safety Innovation&nbsp;Award recognizes public and private entities for their development of innovative solutions that help to reduce workplace injuries and illnesses. (<a href="https://www.bwc.ohio.gov/employer/programs/safety/InnovationAwards.asp" target="_blank">View Details</a>)</span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10px">2017 Safety Innovation Awards judges and finalists</span></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="color:rgb(0, 179, 235)"><strong>Congratulations to our 2017 award winners! </strong></span></span><span style="font-size:14px">(<a href="https://www.bwc.ohio.gov/employer/programs/safety/InnovationAwardsFinalists.asp" target="_blank">View Details</a>)</span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="color:rgb(255, 140, 0)"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">First place</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>ICP Adhesives and Sealants </strong>(Norton) - Pneumatically-operated cylinder clamp<br />
A pneumatic clamping mechanism that eliminates repetitive, manual squeezing and releasing of filling nozzle clamps when filling cylinders with product</span></span><br />
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<p><span style="color:rgb(255, 140, 0)"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Second place</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>C &amp; K Industrial Services Inc.</strong> (Cleveland) - Hydroblasting robots<br />
All-terrain, remote-controlled robots that use high-pressure water for cleaning industrial equipment and facilities, and to eliminate sustained, forceful gripping and manipulation of the spray wands</span></span><br />
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<p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(255, 140, 0)"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Third place and People&#39; Choice</strong></span></span><br />
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<strong>Holloway, Henderson &amp; Martin, LLC </strong>(Pickerington) - Scaffold caddy<br />
A custom-designed cart that was developed to eliminate the manual carrying of scaffold components into buildings</span></span><br />
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<p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(255, 140, 0)"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Honorable mention</strong></span></span><br />
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<strong>Ames Arboreal Group</strong> (Columbus) - JosieBea micrograpple truck<br />
A truck with a mechanical boom and small grapple that is used to lift tree limbs and pieces of the trunk into the trailer to eliminate the need for using a wood chipper</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Suburban Steel Supply Company </strong>(Gahanna) - Electric transfer cart<br />
Motorized, pendant-operated carts that run on tracks through a fabrication shop to eliminate manual pushing of carts loaded with large, heavy structural steel components</span></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="color:rgb(0, 179, 235)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Questions</strong></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Email&nbsp;<a href="mailto:BWCSafetyInnovations@bwc.state.oh.us">Innovation</a> or call 800-644-6292.</span></span></p>

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