2019 AMA Honors
Kinross Fort Knox Mine, 2019 AMA Hard Hat Safety Award Winner AMA’s Hard Hat Safety Award honors a group or person active in AMA who demonstrates an exemplary commitment to safety. The award recipient will demonstrate the highest safety standards, communication of safety policies and training, and have an exemplary record of incident-free days, hours, or other milestones. Awards may go to an operating mine, project, or contractor/vendor who services the mining industry in Alaska. Lorali Simon presented the 2019 Hard Hat Award to Kinross Fort Knox Mine: “Recently, one of our mining operations in the state was awarded the Sentinels of Safety Award on October 21 in Washington, DC. This set of awards is the most prestigious in the industry, awarded by the National Mining Association. This operation won for its best- ever safety record, which means that it was the best performance in the industry for its size of mine in 2018. With this mine coming in at around 1.5-million man-hours last year with no lost time incidents, this was a stupendous achievement. “Initiated in 1925 by Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, the Sentinels of Safety Award program remains the nation’s most prestigious recognition of mine safety and has helped foster a strong safety commitment on the part of US mines. The National Mining Association’s
Sentinels of Safety Award recognizes coal and mineral mining operations for recording the most hours in a calendar year without a single lost-time injury. “To win a Sentinels of Safety Award, mines must demonstrate key aspects similar to what AMA outlines in its award criteria: exemplary safety practices. This mine boasts FOUR key safety programs: the See it, Own it, Solve (SOS) safety program, the management of powered haulage safety program, the evolving Critical Risk Management program and the CORESafety Certification program. “Putting people first is a core value for this company and they are committed to achieving excellence in health and safety performance, and to everyone returning home safe and healthy every day. It is no surprise that this award, goes to one of the largest mines ever having received it – the Fort Knox Mine.”
Jason Morris repeats as top recruiter for AMA The 2019 Membership Recruitment Challenge recruited 34 new AMA members. Thank you to everyone for your efforts! “We are proud to support the recruitment challenge as AMA continues to grow the membership base for many years to come,” said Jennifer Luiten and Gemma Hawley.
For the second year in a row, Redpath Mining’s Jason Morrison won the annual AMA Recruitment Contest, by bringing 23 new members for our association during 2019. Here Jason accepts the grand prize, two Alaska Airline tickets, from AMA’s Jennifer Luiten and Gemma Hawley.
www.alaskaminers.org I The Alaska Miner I December 2019
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