| 2006 ACS Award Winners | |
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The award recipients are listed below: |
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| 2006 Risk Reduction Award | |
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Cory Chadwick, Director; Tom Burke, the 2007 Alliance Chair; and Ken Edgell, Administrative Coordinator |
Hamilton County Environmental Services received this award for its efforts to reduce school children and bus driver exposures to diesel exhaust from school buses. The US EPA has classified diesel particulate exhaust as a likely human carcinogen. The agency was awarded $244,000 in grant monies to retrofit 263 school buses in 22 school districts with diesel oxidation catalysts. The grants were received from the U.S. EPA, the Cinergy Foundation, and the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana (OKI) Regional Council of Governments. As a result, diesel exhaust emissions have been reduced by a total of 9.2 tons per year. |
| 2006 Risk Communication Excellence Award | |
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Michelle Debevec, Marketing Specialist; Tom Burke, the 2007 Alliance Chair; and Diana Wood, Health & Safety Services Supervisor |
The American Red Cross, Cincinnati Chapter, received this award for its annual sponsorship of the Super Safety Saturday event since 1998. This day-long program, which is free and open to the public, is held at the Cincinnati Museum Center in July of each year. The event features eight interactive booths on emergency response and preparedness topics such as water safety, fire safety, disaster preparedness, first aid, carbon monoxide and fire alarms, and Shelter In Place. An estimated 5,000 people visit the museum on a daily basis and are exposed to this event each year. The goal of the event is to educate children and their families, who are a primary visitor to the Museum Center. |
| 2006 Second Mile Award | |
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Tom Burke, the 2007 Alliance Chair; and Deputy Chief Steve Ober of the Miami Township Fire Department |
Deputy Chief Steve Ober of the Miami Township Fire Department (in Hamilton County) received this award for going the second (or extra) mile to promote the mission of the Alliance. Chief Ober has significantly enhanced regional response to hazardous material incidents and improved the safety and well being of all area residents by developing working relationships with industry in Miami Township through drills, joint training, and participation in community advisory panels, improving the skills of firefighters by sending them to advanced hazmat classes, promoting Shelter In Place, and developing community emergency response plans. |
