GBRIA Announces Winners of 2025 Contractor Safety Excellence Awards

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GBRIA Announces Winners of 2025 Contractor Safety Excellence Awards

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The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance (GBRIA) announced the winners of its 29th Annual Safety Excellence Awards. The awards were presented at a banquet held on Thursday, March 20, 2025, at the L’Auberge Resort in Baton Rouge. Approximately 625 guests attended the event, which featured safety and parody videos produced by Alliance Safety Council starring GBRIA members and contractors.

The awards program was established in 1996 by the late Hal G. Ginn, who was the DSM Copolymer Plant Manager at the time, to recognize outstanding safety performance by contractors working in GBRIA member industrial facilities. Ginn played an instrumental role as the board chair of GBRIA in raising safety standards and expectations in the Baton Rouge industry, which has spread across the U.S. with other petrochemical and heavy industrial manufacturers. The awards are intended to convey GBRIA members’ strong support of contractors and plant safety performance, working together with plants and construction project owners to ensure a safe workplace.

GBRIA member companies who nominated their highest performing contractors include Air Liquide, Americas Styrenics, BASF, CF Industries, PBF Energy Chalmette Refining, Cornerstone Chemical Company, Delek, Deltech, Dow, Eastman, Ethos Energy, ExxonMobil, Formosa Plastics, Honeywell, Koch Methanol, The Linde Group, Lion Elastomers, Marathon, Methanex, NOVA Chemicals, Nucor, OxyChem, Placid Refining Company, Rubicon, Shell, Shintech, SNF Flopam, and Westlake.

The winning contract companies demonstrated a level of safety excellence that includes millions of hours worked without injury, a commitment by management to educate workers, and fostering a zero-incident culture. GBRIA members nominated a total of 49 companies representing more than 251 million hours (about 29,000 years) worked.

The 2025 GBRIA Contractor Safety Excellence Awards were presented in eight service categories with companies being further subdivided into each category by either Division I, Division II or Division III based on hours worked last year.

The following companies are GBRIA’s 2025 award recipients: 

Hal G. Ginn Award: Performance Contractors, Inc.

Community Service Award: Brown & Root Industrial Services

Innovation Awards: Performance Contractors, Inc. and Cajun Industries, LLC

General Construction and Maintenance

Division I: 195K to 365K hours

  • 1st Place: RES Contractors
  • 2nd Place: Pipe & Steel Industrial
  • 3rd Place: Claymar Industrial

Division II: 1.4M to 7M hours

  • 1st Place: Turner Industrial Maintenance
  • 2nd Place: Cajun Industries, LLC
  • 3rd Place: CAM Industrial Solutions

Division III: 9.6M to 38M hours

  • 1st Place: Performance Contractors
  • 2nd Place: Brown & Root Industrial Services
  • 3rd Place: Turner Industries Group

Specialty Trades - Environmental

Division I: 200K to 3.1M hours

  • 1st Place: Insight Environmental     
  • 2nd Place: Evergreen North American Industrial Services
  • 3rd Place: United States Environmental Services (USES Group)

Specialty Trade Soft Craft

Division I: 400 to 1M hours

  • 1st Place: Industrial Specialists, LLC
  • 2nd Place: The Foust Group/Coating Services Inc.

Division II: 2.4M to 4.7M hours

  • 1st Place: BrandSafway
  • 2nd Place: Turner Specialty Services
  • 3rd Place: Petrin, LLC

Division III: 8.1M to 13M hours

  • 1st Place: Apache Industrial
  • 2nd Place: Brock Services

Specialty Trade Hard Craft

Division I: 53K to 1.7M hours

  • 1st Place: PALA Interstate
  • 2nd Place: ControlWorx, John H. Carter Company
  • 3rd Place: Reliant Recycling

Division II: 4.4M to 7.1M hours

  • 1st Place: SWAT         
  • 2nd Place: Triad Electric and Controls

Division III: 19M hours

1st Place: MMR Constructors

Technical Support

Division I: 10K to 506K hours

  • 1st Place: Precision Inspection Services
  • 2nd Place: Loadstar
  • 3rd Place: Austin Fire Systems

Division II: 800K to 3.4M hours

  • 1st Place: IRISNDT
  • 2nd Place: aXion Logistics
  • 3rd Place: Sentinel Integrity Solutions

Division III: 5.8M to 11.2M hours

  • 1st Place: Total Safety
  • 2nd Place: PSC Group
  • 3rd Place: Nalco Water, An Ecolab Company

Photographs of the event and the winners are available here

About GBRIA

GBRIA’s mission is to bring value to our communities by developing innovative solutions to common industry issues advocated with one voice. 

The association comprises more than 70 petrochemical, paper, pharmaceutical, storage terminal and other industrial facilities located in seven parishes around Baton Rouge.

For more information, visit www.gbria.org.