Best safe practices in cement plants

The cement industry has made a strategic commitment to make safe practices an integral part of the manufacturing process and recognizes individual plants for innovative safety programs. The cement industry's Best Safe Practices Photographic Contest is sponsored by the Portland Cement Association (PCA), the American Portland Cement Alliance (APCA) and the Cement Association of Canada (CAC). This paper introduces the program and highlights the importance of safety to the North American cement industry. The paper outlines program requirements, judging criteria and entries submitted to date, and summarizes several entries. In addition, there is a discussion about PCA's planned Best Safe Practices Photographic Contest web page. This paper provides the cement industry with a current summary of the Best Safe Practices Photographic Contest. The Best Safe Practices program demonstrates how cement plants are committed to safety. This contest may, in the future, be used as a program model for other manufacturing industries.