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Nominations for 2nd annual Safety Leadership Award
The Regional Chamber's Mahoning Valley Safety Council (MVSC), in conjunction with sponsor City Machine Technologies, Inc. in Youngstown, is now accepting nominations for the 2nd annual Joan Kovach Safety Leadership Award, recognizing a company that has shown itself to be a leader in safety training, operations, funding and communications.
This Safety Leadership Award is named in honor of Joan Kovach, who together with her husband, Michael J. Kovach, Jr., started, owned and operated City Machine Technologies, Inc. since 1985, but who died suddenly in a hiking accident on July 16, 2006.
Nominees may be from private, non-profit or public sectors; must be a MVSC member in good standing and a company in good standing with the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation; nominations must be for operations in Columbiana, Mahoning or Trumbull counties. Previous Safety Leadership Award nominees are eligible for re-nomination; previous Safety Leadership Award recipients are not eligible for nomination.
The following qualifying factors will be used to judge all nominees: Visible, active senior management leadership, employee involvement and recognition, medical treatment and return-to-work practices, communication, timely notification of accidents/claims, safety and health process coordination, written orientation and training, written and communicated safe work practices, written safety and health policy, record keeping and data analysis and length of membership in the Mahoning Valley Safety Council and similar safety organizations.
The nomination form may be found on the MVSC web page on the Regional Chamber's website at www.regionalchamber.com/safetycouncil.html. The MVSC Executive Committee, comprising safety professionals from 10 private companies and two Bureau of Workers' Compensation representatives, will review nominations, which will be accepted from March 1 to March 31, 2008. The Safety Leadership Award will be presented at the May 7, 2008, MVSC Safety Awards Luncheon.
For additional information about the MVSC and this award, please contact Dorothy Boggio, executive director of the Mahoning Valley Safety Council, at 330-744-2131, ext. 25, or at Dorothy@regionalchamber.com.
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2008 Trash & Treasure Sale
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Nursing scholarships offered
For the ninth year, Cambridge Home health Care is offering four nursing school scholarships of $1,000 each to be awarded in the following manner: tow scholarships to non-employees of Cambridge Home Health Care who are residents in the following counties their Ohio offices serve: (Ashland, Athens, Butler, Clark, Clemont, Columbiana, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Delaware, Erie, Franklin, Fulton, Geauga, Greene, Guernsey, Hamilton, Holmes, Huron, Lorain, Lucas, Mahoning, Marion, Medina, Miami, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, Ottawa, Perry, Portage, Richland, Sandusky, Seneca, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Warren, Washington, Wayne and Wyandof Pennsylvania offices serve Butler, Lawrence, Mercer. Additionally two scholarships are available to current employees of Cambridge Home Health Care.
The process requirements to apply for consideration are: you are currently a home health aide/nurse's aide or LPN who has worked for two of the past three years in either capacity and are a resident in one of the above named counties: You are enrolling in LPN or RN school for the upcoming fall school year of 2008-2009 and are not now currently in LPN or RN school. You provide two written recommendations form current and past employers. Completed application packet is received by May 15.
Selection of recipients will be made by the management team of Cambridge Home Health Care and recipients will be announced in July. To request an application packet call 330-668-1922 ext. 105 or write to Cambridge Home Health Care, 4085 Embassy Parkway, Akron, Ohio 44333.
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