Safety, Health, and Security

Our Strategic Objective:

Enabling and facilitating the pursuit of injury and incident-free workplaces

GBRIA’s Safety, Health, and Security committees and initiatives are led by:

  • Jerry Lebold, BASF
  • Darylene Pugh, Shell
  • Christy Blanchard, Rubicon
  • Tim Harris, RES Contractors

Safety, Health, and Security Committee

The SHS committee is dedicated to sharing best practices, enabling invaluable peer-to-peer learning and discussion. The committee also shares data, through GBRIA, on incidents and near misses for the betterment of industry as a whole. The committee has produced numerous materials, best practice guides, and training through our partners such as Alliance Safety Council, ABC, NCCER, and others.

Safety Excellence Awards Program

Since 1996, Baton Rouge area plants and contractors come together to celebrate the accomplishments made by both in the previous year. The GBRIA Safety Excellence Awards Banquet is attended by over 700 industry leaders, representing GBRIA's members and industrial contractors and vendors. This banquet showcases the best of the best that industry has to offer.

Contractors Safety and Health Auditing

GBRIA, as a service to its members, facilitates a safety & health audit on contractor companies utilizing a 3rd party auditing firm. These audits serve to assist member companies with their requirement to evaluate contractors’ safety and health programs under the OSHA 1910.119 (h) regulations. The audit holds reciprocity with the Industry Business Roundtable and is valid for three (3) years. The program is aimed to reduce the cost for member companies and reduce repetitive audits for contractor companies.

Alliance Safety Council Steering Committee

The Alliance Safety Council delivers safety training for GBRIA members to prepare contract workers to enter industrial sites and is accepted by all plants in the Greater Baton Rouge area as well as many other plants in the nation. The steering committee brings owners and contractors together to strive to have the safest industrial workforce in the nation.

NEF Worker Guide

Revised in 2017, GBRIA's Non-English Fluent Speaking Workers Implementation Guideline for Industrial Sites is a tool for onboarding and managing a non-English fluent workforce.

View the NEF Worker Guide