SOS wins 4 communications awards

For the second year running, Spotlight on Safety has earned highest honors in The Communicator Awards 2002 Print Media competition. This Crystal Award of Excellence is given to benchmark entries whose ability to communicate puts them among the best in the field, only 12% of about 3,350 entries.

SOS also won an Honorable Mention award in the Writing category.

Possibly even more prestigious is the Grand Award bestowed upon SOS by the Apex Annual Awards for Publication Excellence. In a field of almost 5,900 entries, only 98 were honored with Grand Awards. A judge’s comment accompanied each winner’s listing on the web site. We were commended with: "This is riveting -- crisp, succinct, interesting storytelling with a personal experience for every job site risk. The 9/11 narrative is especially powerful."

The fourth award, also from Apex, is an Award of Excellence for a “magapaper produced mainly by 1-to-2 people.” (SOS received an Apex Award of Excellence in 2001 as well.)

The Communicator Awards and APEX 2002 are national awards organizations that recognize outstanding work in communications effectiveness and excellence in graphic design and editorial content. Entries are judged solely on their own quality, creativity, and resourcefulness---against a high standard of excellence, instead of against each other.

MSA’s quarterly newsletter for customers is read by over 45,000 people with an interest in work site safety and health. We must be doing SOMETHING right, but YOU are whom we aim to please, so let us know what we can do to improve SOS for you and your employees.