Description
The Safety Excellence Awards are designed to honour those contractors who have maintained a superior safety record during the year leading up to submission. Please note the NEW Submission process this year for this award.
Requirements
SAFETY EXCELLENCE AWARDS (new criteria this year!)
The VICA Awards are open to all VICA Industry Members in good standing. Nominees must have been VICA Members for a minimum of six (6) months at time of submission. Submissions can be self-nominated or independently nominated.
Submissions must be received before 4:00pm, March 31, 2025 (PST). DEADLINE EXTENDED to April 7, 2025 at 4:00PM (PST)
Safety Awards will be given out to companies based on their Worksafe BC Experience Rating Premium for the year. To obtain this information, please send a copy of your current discount to VICA by doing the following:
- Login to your WorkSafe BC portal online
- Go to ‘Rate Information'
- Go to ‘Annual Rate Notification'
- Choose ‘Base Premium Rate'
- Download or take a screenshot of that information and submit it with your application.
- Please make note if you are the maximum discount
AWARD CONDITIONS
- The Chair of the VICA Board of Directors is not eligible to be nominated during the year in which he or she holds such a position.
- The decision of the Awards Committee is final and not subject to appeal.
- An award may not be presented if, in the opinion of the judges, no suitable candidate has been nominated for the specific category.
- If the entry contains any feature that is, or could be, protected by patent rights the submission must be accompanied by written evidence demonstrating that the necessary steps have been taken to secure the requisite legal protection; neither the sponsor of the VICA Award nor the Vancouver Island Construction Association (VICA) can assume any responsibility for “prior disclosure” in advance of a patent application.
- All submissions in support of a Nominee for the VICA Awards become the property of VICA.
- All photographs submitted with VICA Award nominations also become the property of VICA.
Please note: The Safety Excellence Awards are not evaluated by judges or voted on by members. They will be presented separately from the Vancouver Island Building Industry Awards.