AIST Presents Don B. Daily Safety Award to Gerdau Manager
11/10/2010 - AIST and its Safety and Health Technology Committee presented the 2010 Don B. Daily Safety Award to Matt D. Moore, Manager – Gerdau Ameristeel Cartersville, for his presentation, “Leveraging Near Misses into Improved Performance.”
AIST and its Safety and Health Technology Committee presented the 2010 Don B. Daily Safety Award to Matt D. Moore, Manager – Gerdau Ameristeel Cartersville, for his presentation, “Leveraging Near Misses into Improved Performance.”
The award was presented at the 2010 Safety and Health Specialty Training Conference held Nov. 7–10, 2010, at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel in Fort Worth, Tex.
This award was established in honor of Don B. Daily, President of Gallatin Steel, for his leadership and passion to improve safety throughout the steel industry. Daily was an advocate of safety and had the profound effect of making safety personal with every person he met. The Don B. Daily Safety Award is presented to the author of a safety or health presentation judged to be the best presented during the annual Safety and Health Specialty Training Conference.
Moore led a positive safety culture movement within Gerdau Ameristeel by investigating all near-miss accidents. This safety scrutiny produced an overall improved safety performance at a number of Gerdau Ameristeel plants. Resolving near-miss accidents helped create proactive safety awareness company-wide for Gerdau Ameristeel.
Recipients of the AIST Association-Level Awards, AIST Technology Division-Level Awards, AIST Member Chapter Awards, and AIME Awards will be announced at the President’s Award Breakfast during AISTech 2011 – The Iron & Steel Technology Conference and Exposition on May 3, 2011, at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Ind.
AIST is an international technical association of more than 13,000 professional and student members, representing iron and steel producers, their allied suppliers, and related academia. The association is dedicated to advancing the technical development, production, processing, and application of iron and steel.
