In 1985, the B&CMA established the Safety Awards Contest in an effort to raise awareness for the importance of safety in the workplace.  The Safety Awards would serve to recognize those member bakeries that demonstrate a healthy and safe work environment.  

The Contest: 
The Chairman’s Award of Safety Excellence represents the best overall record among member bakeries of the B&CMA and is structured so each member's individual plants compete against other plants of similar size.  


The Recognition Awards acknowledge improvement within a plant.  


Award Categories Include:  

AWARD OF SAFETY MERIT: Plants that achieved a DART incidence rate that is at least 50% below the current rate for the cookie and cracker industry and an improvement over the previous year.

CERTIFICATE OF SAFETY ACHIEVEMENT: Plants that achieved a DART incidence rate that is at least 50% below the current rate for the cookie and cracker industry.

CERTIFICATE OF SAFETY IMPROVEMENT: Plants that decreased/improved their DART incidence rate over that recorded for the previous year.

Winners of the 2010 Chairman's Award for Safety Excellence

B&CMA Chairman Rob Ellis, Ellison Bakery Inc., presented the Chairman's Award for Safety Excellence to the following bakeries on May 2, 2011 at the B&CMA 86th Annual Convention held in Dallas, TX. These winners had the best (the least) DART incidence rate in 2010 for their bakery size.

Bakeries with less than 200 employees for demonstrating an outstanding commitment and dedication to employee safety and excellence in achieving a lost-time accident frequency rate of 0 for the year 2010. 

BREMNER RY KRISP - Minneapolis, Minnesota

NEWLY WEDS FOODS - SPRINGDALE DIVISION - Springdale, Arkansas

NEWLY WEDS FOODS – WATERTOWN DIVISION – Watertown, Massachusetts

A bakery with less than 500 employees for demonstrating an outstanding commitment and dedication to employee safety and excellence in achieving a lost-time accident frequency rate of 0.360 for the year 2010

KRAFT FOODS de MEXICO - MONTERREY PLANT- Guadalupe, Mexico 

A bakery with more than 800 employees for demonstrating an outstanding commitment and dedication to employee safety and excellence in achieving a lost-time accident frequency rate of 1.365 for the year 2010

SNYDER'S-LANCE, INC. - CHARLOTTE BAKERY, Charlotte, North Carolina

Winners of 2010 Recognition Awards: 

The following bakeries won the Award of Safety Merit for achieving a DART incidence rate that is at least 50% below the current rate for the cookie and cracker industry and an improvement over last year:

Bremner Food Group, Inc. - Ripon East Operation, Ripon, Wisconsin
Bremner Food Group, Inc. - Tonawanda Operation, Tonawanda, New York
Bud’s Best Cookies, Inc. - Birmingham, Alabama
Kellogg Company - Charlotte Bakery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Kellogg Company - Chicago Bakery, Chicago, Illinois
Kellogg Company - Louisville Bakery, Louisville, Kentucky
Kellogg Company - Rome Bakery, Rome, Georgia
Kraft Canada - East York Bakery, Toronto, Canada
Newly Weds Foods - Chicago, Illinois
Newly Weds Foods - Mt. Pleasant, Texas 

The following bakeries earned a Certificate of Safety Achievement for achieving a DART incidence rate that is at least 50% below the current rate for the cookie and cracker industry:

Kellogg Company - Wyoming Bakery, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Newly Weds Foods - Horn Lake, Mississippi

The following bakeries earned a Certificate of Safety Improvement for improving their DART incidence rate over that recorded for the previous year:

Bremner Food Group, Inc. - Poteau Operation, Poteau, Oklahoma

Bremner Food Group, Inc. - Princeton Operation, Princeton, Kentucky
Bremner Food Group, Inc. - Ripon West Operation, Ripon, Wisconsin

Chattanooga Bakery - Chattanooga, Tennessee

Columbus Bakery - Kroger, Columbus, Ohio 

Fehr Foods Inc. - Abilene, Texas

J & J Snacks Corp. of California - Vernon, California

Snyder’s-Lance Inc. - Burlington Bakery, Burlington, Iowa

Snyder’s-Lance Canada Ltd. - Cambridge Bakery, Cambridge, Canada
Oak State Products, Inc. - Wenona, Illinois
Schulze & Burch Biscuit Company - Chicago, Illinois