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2011 SAFE DESIGN AWARDS CONTEST for Engineering Students
Undergraduate Engineering students enrolled at a Canadian University wishing to enter the 2011 Minerva Safe Design contest should contact Minerva Canada at minerva@safetymanagementeducation.com by December 17, 2010. Final submission date is February 25,2011. Details on contest rules are outlined in the Rules and Regulations below.
2010 Business Student Award in Health and Safety -- Laurier University
Minerva Canada was proud to be the platinum sponsor of a Health and Safety competition during the 2009/10 Intercollegiate Business School Competitions ( ICBC ) held at Queens University . In January 2010, members of the Minerva Canada Board of Directors judged the 6 finalists in the Human Resources Venue that involved the analysis of a case study focused on Health and Safety. Minerva Canada wishes to congratulate Jared Grossman and Catherine Guba from Laurier University for taking first prize in the Human resiources venue The ICBC case studies sponsored by Minerva Canada are on this website ( see Teaching Resources, Case studies). Minerva Canada plans to continue its sponsorship of ICBC in 2011. More information about the ICBC can be obtained by going to www.icbconline.ca
2010 Engineering Safe Design Winners -- University of Manitoba and Queen's University
The team of Romain Coudiere, Alexander Hammond, Michael Holiday, Andrew Le, Zhi Li, engineering undergraduate students at the University of Manitoba took the top prize for designing enhancements to facilitate the inspection of a rocket motor case and thereby reducing the risk of musculoskeletal injuries to workers. The team of Jeremy Langburt, Wilson Mckinnon, Kevin Smiley, Jesse Williams-Kovacs, engineering undergraduate students at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, took second prize for their detailed analysis of process hazards and risk mitigation measures associated with the design of a bio diesel production facility. The winning team shared first prize of $3,500 while the runner-up team shared second prize of $1500 . Each student received a plaque and their prize money from Minerva Canada President and CEO Tony Pasteris and other Minerva Board members. Congratulations to all these students.
MINVERVA CANADA'S JAMES HAM SAFE DESIGN AWARDS
In 2006, Minerva Canada Safety Management Education Inc., with funding from the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), undertook to develop a program to recognize individual engineering students or teams of such students in Ontario. The awards shall go to those who make an original and unique contribution to integrating safety into engineering design. The recognition will be in the form of a first prize award of $3,500 and a second prize award of $l,500.
Through these awards, Minerva Canada and the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board honour James Ham whose Royal Commission Report on Health and Safety led to the creation of Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and to the adoption of the Internal Responsibility System in Ontario workplaces.
The purpose of the awards will be to:
- Encourage students and engineering faculty members to integrate safety into all designs.
- Produce safer designs of devices, processes and systems.
- Raise awareness of Process Safety Management (PSM) and Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) in the Province of Ontario.
In this modern age, business and industry are constantly looking for ways in which technology can improve efficiency and for ways they can respond more rapidly to changing demands. Unfortunately, the combination of these two – innovation and change – often conspires in unexpected ways. One of these is the inadvertent introduction of new hazards into the workplace and the elevation of risks to workers.
Students and faculty members in Ontario engineering schools are being challenged by Minerva to look at this potential problem and other existing safety problems and to respond by:
- Suggesting ways to improve the existing design of devices, processes or systems.
- Envisioning new, innovative designs that will eliminate or reduce potential hazards.
- Creating tools to help manufacturers and workplaces integrate safety into new or retrofitted designs.
It is hoped that this elevated awareness will lead to better integration of Health and Safety Management programs in Ontario's post secondary schools and, as a long-term goal, a reduction in workplace illnesses and injuries.
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