| Robert W. Campbell Award | |
| Awarded For: | Business excellence through the integration of environmental, health, and safety management. |
| Presenter: | National Safety Council |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Website: | http://www.CampbellAward.org |
The international Robert W. Campbell Award honors companies that achieve business excellence by integrating EHS (Environment, Health, and Safety) management into their business operations. Built upon scientific evaluation, the Campbell Award uses an evidence-based case study approach to transform the landscape of EHS worldwide. To promote integrated management systems and educate leaders across national and cultural borders, Campbell Awards are shared through the twenty-two Global Partner network.
The goal of the Campbell Award is to educate leaders about the value of EHS to the triple bottom line through evidence-based case studies.
The award is named after Robert W. Campbell, an early 20th-century pioneer in the safety movement of the United States and the first president of the National Safety Council. Campbell recognized the humanitarian benefit of safety, but realized that there were also economic benefits of EHS. He believed that striking a balance between these would convince a larger audience of how safety serves as the basis for the ideals of the Campbell Award.[1]
The award seeks to "collect and highlight the best examples of safety, health, and environmental management in successful business management worldwide."
The award's official website lists the following mission and goals:[2]
Mission
- Identify and provide evidence-based studies that enable business leaders to advance business vitality through the promotion of environmental, health, and safety management.
Goals
- Recognize businesses that uphold EHS as a key business value and link measurable achievement in EHS performance to productivity and profitability.
- Establish a validated process by which industries can measure the performance of their EHS operations system against well-tested and internationally accepted key performance indicators.
- Use a systematic review process to capture and evaluate the successes and lessons learned.
- Share leading edge EHS management systems and best practices for educational purposes worldwide.
Award submission criteria
The Robert W. Campbell Award honors a business, enterprise, or entity that employs a management system in which EHS is well integrated and recognized as a key business value. Publicly or privately held organizations are encouraged to apply. Additionally, "stand alone" subunits or divisions of larger organizations may apply. These subunits must have business operations that are self-contained, report financial performance at least annually, and have independently – auditable EHS and business performance measurements. The subunits must be answerable to a board of directors or other singular top level entity which could range from an independent board to a proprietorship.
The submitting organization or subunit must:
Submitting organizations fall into two categories based on the number of employees. Organizations compete for the Award within their size category. Subunits are classified dependent on the number of employees in their parent organization, regardless of the size of the subunit.
All applications for the Campbell Award are evaluated by a panel of reviewers consisting of experts representing management, labor, academic, and government perspectives, nominated and approved by the Award's Global Partners.
Based on reviewer evaluations, award finalists are selected. On-site assessments at finalists' headquarters and operations sites are then conducted by a team of assessors, and after further evaluation, winner(s) are named. Objective and confidential feedback is provided to each applicant.
Winners of the Robert W. Campbell Award are announced at the annual National Safety Council Congress & Expo. Winning submittals are showcased by Award Global Partners at EHS, business, and leadership conferences and events around the world.
Winning companies work with Campbell Award administrators and business schools to develop university-level case studies based on their submittals. These case studies have been utilized in business and engineering schools worldwide. Currently, two Robert W. Campbell Award Business Case Studies have been produced and five are in development. The two finished Case Studies are: