The Brick Industry Association sponsors the EH&S contests to illustrate the brick industry's commitment to safeguarding the environment, as well as the safety and health of the brick industry workers. These competitions are designed to boost recognition of individual companies for efforts that ultimately benefit the brick industry as a whole. 

All distributors and manufacturers are encouraged to enter the contests. There is no entry fee for BIA members and non-members will pay a fee of $150 for each entry submitted. Winning companies benefit from publicity in consumer news publications, trade publications covering the masonry industry, as well as both the worker safety and environmental management functional areas. Additionally, past winners have capitalized on the honor of winning in BIA's EH&S contests through promoting the achievement internally. This serves to showcase the company's leadership position in the industry, and encourage all members of the winning company's management team and workforce to embrace innovation in the EH&S area to reduce costs, boost operating efficiency and safeguard the environment and our workers.

The winners of the 2005 Brick Industry Association Environmental Stewardship & Employee Health and Safety Contests:

• 2005 Environmental Stewardship Contest winners were Acme Brick Company and Glen-Gery Corp.

• 2005 Employee Health and Safety Contest winners were Acme Brick, Boral Bricks and Hanson Brick. 

The EH&S contests are conducted entirely online, including all aspects of registration, entry submission and judging. A company may submit multiple entries.

Find out more about the current contest or contact Joseph Casper at jcasper@bia.org / 703-674-1545 or Colleen Canovas at ccanovas@bia.org / 703-674-1546.