2022
1st Place: An Integrated Approach for Understanding, Correcting and Preventing Unsafe Acts (February 2021), by Charmaine Mullins-Jaime, Ph.D., CSP, CRSP, Samantha Case, M.P.H., ASP, and Jan K. Wachter, Sc.D., CSP, CIH
2nd Place (tie): Contractor Safety Prequalification: Background, Current Practice and New Paths (March 2021), by David W. Wilbanks, Ph.D., CSP, ARM
2nd Place (tie): Prevention Through Design: 2021 and Beyond (May 2021), by James W. Stanley and Michael A. Taubitz
3rd Place: Understanding the Biological Basis of Complacency (October 2021), by Sharon Lipinski
2021
1st Place: The Role of Leading and Lagging Indicators in OSH Performance Management (August 2020), by Pamela Walaski, CSP
2nd Place: The Power of What If: Assessing and Understanding Risk (June 2020), by Bruce K. Lyon, P.E., CSP, SMS, ARM, CHMM, and Georgi Popov, Ph.D., CSP, QEP, SMS, ARM, CMC, FAIHA
3rd Place: Safety in the Multigenerational Workplace (May 2020), by Rona Smeak, Ph.D., CSP
2020
1st Place: Moving Risk Assessment Upstream to the Design Phase (November 2019), by Bruce K. Lyon, P.E., CSP, ARM, CHMM, David L. Walline, CSP, and Georgi Popov, Ph.D., CSP, ASP, SMS, ARM, QEP, CMC
2nd Place: Perception Surveys: Development & Analysis to Study Safety Issues (October 2019), by Christopher A. Janicak, Ph.D., CSP, CEA, ARM, and Majed M. Zreiqat, Ph.D., ASP
3rd Place: Risk Treatment Strategies: Harmonizing the Hierarchy of Controls & Inherently Safer Design Concepts (May 2019), by Bruce K. Lyon, P.E., CSP, ARM, CHMM, and Georgi Popov, Ph.D., CSP, ASP, SMS, ARM, QEP, CMC
2019
1st Place: High Risk, Lone Worker: The Unacceptable Risk (July 2018) by Fred Straub, Ph.D., M.S., CSP, ARM
2nd Place: PTD Before Risk Assessment: A Historical Perspective (November 2018) by Mike Taubitz
3rd Place: Medical Marijuana: Addressing Impairment in the Workplace (August 2018) by Lori Schroth, Brandon Hody, Chris Chaffin, Elliot Laratonda and Greg Cook, from the ASSP Public Sector Practice Specialty
2017
1st Place: The Art of Assessing Risk: Selecting, Modifying & Combining Methods to Assess Operational Risks (March 2016) by Bruce K. Lyon, P.E., CSP, ARM, CHMM, and Georgi Popov, Ph.D., QEP, CMC
2nd Place: Major Risk: Moving From Symptoms to Systems Thinking (October 2016) by James Loud, CSP, CHMM
3rd Place: Safety Expectations: Finding a Common Denominator (July 2016) by Vladimir Ivensky, CSP, CIH