Achievement Awards

Achievement Award Criteria

Recognition of Excellence

• The recipient must have contributed significantly to occupational safety and/or occupational health and must have been born, educated or worked in the state of Alabama.
• The award described above is typically given for a single outstanding event from the previous year.

William H. Weems Lifetime Achievement Award

• The William H. Weems Lifetime Achievement award is an award for an individual’s total career where he or she contributed to and/or influenced the occupational safety and/or health field.
• All the requirements for the first award will apply, and all the recognitions will be the same; however, the recipient’s life work will be judged rather than a “headline event”.

The Award recipient(s) or their family representative will be invited as guests to the Conference in the year of the award.

The recipient(s) will be recognized at the conference with an award.

The Awards Subcommittee for the Alabama Governor’s Safety & Health Conference must receive nominations for both awards by June 1st of each year.