in 2008 MCAA Safety Excellence Award
Association of America, Inc. (MCAA)
honored MCAA member fi rms that
achieved the highest level of safety
excellence in 2008. The award winners
were announced at the MCAA Awards
of Excellence Breakfast at the assoc-
iation's annual convention in Scottsdale,
Arizona, with fi rst place award winners
receiving a plaque from MCAA
President Jack Wilhelmi. Congrat-
ulations to Scheck Mechanical on
receiving First Place in Category 5
(more than 1 million work hours)!
Wilhelmi; Vice President of Special Operations Chris Scheck; Vice President of
Business Development Michael Scheck.
1,102,681 work hours with no lost work
time, thanks to a culture of safety
shared by the entire Scheck team.
Scheck Industries' Corporate Safety,
Health, & Environmental Director
Joe Lasky explained how this great
achievement was accomplished:
on four key challenges head-on in 2007,
and it really paid off," he said. Those
challenges were: personal account-
ability, teamwork, staying focused on
Scheck's commitment to "Work Safe",
communication, communication and
more communication.
for meeting the 2008 safety challenges
which were set forth starting in 2007
but we're not fi nished," added Lasky.
gear by putting a new face on its
Safety, Health, and Environmental
Program. Scheck's new 2008 program
is called Job Aids for Working Safely,
or "J.A.W.S." With components that
include J.A.W.S. Daily Talks; weekly
J.A.W.S. Job Aids, complete with a
quiz; and J.A.W.S. Alerts for quick
action, Scheck has taken its safety
program up a notch.
Lasky, "someday we may be open to
fail. And that's not acceptable
at Scheck Industries."