Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

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The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is an annual award that recognizes U.S. organizations in
the business, health care, education, and nonprofit sectors for performance excellence. The Baldrige
Award is the only formal recognition of the performance excellence of both public and private U.S.
organizations given by the President of the United States. It is administered by the Baldrige National
Quality Program, which is based at and managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The Baldrige National Quality Program and the associated Award were established by the Malcolm
Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 (Public Law 100–107). The Program and Award were
named for Malcolm Baldrige, who served as United States Secretary of Commerce during the Reagan
administration, from 1981 until Baldrige’s 1987 death in a rodeo accident.

The Award promotes awareness of performance excellence as an increasingly important element in

competitiveness and information sharing of successful performance strategies and the benefits derived
from using these strategies. To receive a Baldrige Award, an organization must have a role-model
organizational management system that ensures continuous improvement in the delivery of products
and/or services, demonstrates efficient and effective operations, and provides a way of engaging and
responding to customers and other stakeholders. The Award is not given for specific products or services.
Up to 18 Awards may be given annually across six eligibility categories—manufacturing, service, small
business, education, health care, and nonprofit. As of 2009, 84 organizations had received the Award.

Contents
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• 1 Criteria for Performance

Excellence

• 2 Early History of the Baldrige

Program

• 3 Program Impacts

• 4 Public-Private Partnership

• 5 Baldrige Award Recipients

o 5.1 2009

o 5.2 2008

o 5.3 2007

o 5.4 2006

o 5.5 2005
 o 5.6 2004

o 5.7 2003

o 5.8 2002

o 5.9 2001

o 5.10 2000

o 5.11 1999

o 5.12 1998

o 5.13 1997

o 5.14 1996

o 5.15 1995

o 5.16 1994

o 5.17 1993

o 5.18 1992

o 5.19 1991

o 5.20 1990

o 5.21 1989

o 5.22 1988

• 6 See also

• 7 External links

• 8 References

[edit]Criteria for Performance Excellence

The seven categories of the Criteria are:

The main uses of the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence are education and organizational self-
assessment and self-improvement. The Criteria are also the basis for giving Baldrige Awards and giving
feedback to Baldrige Award applicants. In addition, the Criteria have the following three roles in
strengthening U.S. competitiveness:

 To help improve organizational performance practices, capabilities, and results

 To facilitate communication and sharing of information on best practices among U.S. organizations
of all types

 To serve as a working tool for understanding and managing performance and for guiding planning
and opportunities for learning
The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence provide organizations with an integrated approach to
organizational performance management that results in

 delivery of ever-improving value to customers and stakeholders, contributing to organizational

sustainability

 improvement of overall organizational effectiveness and capabilities

 organizational and personal learning

The following three sector-specific versions of the Criteria, which are revised every two years, are available
for free from the Baldrige National Quality Program:

 Criteria for Performance Excellence

 Education Criteria for Performance Excellence

 Healthcare Criteria for Performance Excellence

[edit]Early History of the Baldrige Program

 In the early and mid-1980s, many U.S. industry and government leaders saw that a renewed
emphasis on quality was a necessity for doing business in an ever-expanding and more competitive
world market. But many American businesses either did not believe quality mattered for them or did not
know where to begin.

 The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act of 1987, signed into law on August 20,
1987, was developed through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee, chaired
byJack Grayson. The nonprofit research organization APQC, founded by Grayson, organized the first
White House Conference on Productivity, spearheading the creation of the Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award in 1987. The Baldrige Award was envisioned as a standard of excellence that would
help U.S. organizations achieve world-class quality.

 In the late summer and fall of 1987, Dr. Curt Reimann, the first director of the Malcolm Baldrige
National Quality Program, and his staff at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
developed an award implementation framework, including an evaluation scheme, and advanced
proposals for what is now the Baldrige Award.

 In its first three years, the Baldrige Award was jointly administered by APQC and the American
Society for Quality, which continues to assist in administering the Award Program under contract to
NIST.

[edit]Program Impacts
  According to Building on Baldrige: American Quality for the 21st Century by the private Council on
Competitiveness, “More than any other program, the Baldrige Quality Award is responsible for making
quality a national priority and disseminating best practices across the United States.”

 An October 2001 study of the economic impact of the Baldrige National Quality Program, prepared
for NIST by Albert N. Link and John T. Scott, conservatively estimated the net private benefits
associated with the Program to the economy as a whole at $24.65 billion. When compared to the social
costs of the Program of $119 million, BNQP’s social benefit-to-cost ratio is 207-to-1.

 Leadership Excellence magazine in 2007 placed the Baldrige Program in the top ten best
government/military leadership programs in the United States based on seven criteria: vision/mission,
involvement/participation, accountability/measurement, content/curriculum, presenters/presentations,
take-home value/results for customers, and outreach of the programs and products.

 Since the Program’s inception in 1987, more than 2 million copies of the business/nonprofit,
education, and health care versions of the Criteria for Performance Excellence booklets have been
distributed to individuals and organizations in the United States and abroad. In 2008, more than 1.75
million copies of the Criteria were accessed or downloaded from the Baldrige Web site.

[edit]Public-Private Partnership
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is supported by a distinctive public-private partnership. The
following organizations and entities play a key role:

 The Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award raises funds to permanently
endow the Award Program.

 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of
Commerce, manages the Baldrige National Quality Program.

 The American Society for Quality (ASQ) assists in administering the Award Program under
contract to NIST.

 The Board of Overseers advises the Department of Commerce on the Baldrige National Quality
Program.

 The Board of Examiners—consisting of leading experts from U.S. businesses and education,
health care, and nonprofit organizations—volunteers time to evaluate Award applications and prepare
feedback reports for applicant organizations. Board members also share information about the
Program in their professional, trade, community, and state organizations. The Panel of Judges, part of
the Board of Examiners, makes Award recommendations to the Director of NIST.
  The network of state, regional, and local Baldrige-based award programs known as the Alliance for
Performance Excellence provides potential award applicants and examiners, promotes the use of the
Criteria, and disseminates information regarding the Award process and concepts.

 Award recipients share information on their successful performance and quality strategies with
other U.S. organizations.

[edit]Baldrige Award Recipients

The following organizations have received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award to date:

[edit]2009

Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, Kansas City, MO (manufacturing)

MidwayUSA, Columbia, MO (small business)
AtlantiCare, Egg Harbor Township, NJ (health care)
Heartland Health, St. Joseph, MO (health care)
VA Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center, Albuquerque, NM
(nonprofit)

[edit]2008

Poudre Valley Health System, Fort Collins, CO (health care)

Cargill Corn Milling North America, Wayzata, MN (manufacturing)
Iredell-Statesville Schools, Statesville, NC (education)

[edit]2007

PRO-TEC Coating Co., Leipsic, OH (small business)

Mercy Health System, Janesville, WI (health care)
Sharp Healthcare, San Diego, CA (health care)
City of Coral Springs, Coral Springs, FL (nonprofit)
U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
(nonprofit)

[edit]2006

MESA Products, Inc., Tulsa, OK (small business)

Premier Inc., San Diego, CA (service)
North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, MS (health care)

[edit]2005

Sunny Fresh Foods, Inc., Monticello, MN (manufacturing)

DynMcDermott Petroleum Operations, New Orleans, LA (service)
Park Place Lexus, Plano, TX (small business)
Richland College, Dallas, TX (education)
Jenks Public Schools, Jenks, OK (education)
Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, MI (health care)

[edit]2004

The Bama Companies, Tulsa, OK (manufacturing)

Texas Nameplate Company, Inc., Dallas, TX (small business)
Kenneth W. Monfort College of Business, Greeley, CO (education)
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, Hamilton, NJ (health care)

[edit]2003

Medrad, Inc., Indianola, PA (manufacturing)

Boeing Aerospace Support, St. Louis, MO (service)
Caterpillar Financial Services Corp., Nashville, TN (service)
Stoner Inc., Quarryville, PA (small business)
Community Consolidated School District 15, Palatine, IL (education)
Baptist Hospital, Inc., Pensacola, FL (health care)
Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO (health care)

[edit]2002

Motorola Inc. Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector, Schaumburg, IL (manufacturing)
Branch-Smith Printing Division, Fort Worth, TX (small business)
SSM Health Care, St. Louis, MO (health care)

[edit]2001

Clarke American Checks, Incorporated, San Antonio, TX (manufacturing)

Pal’s Sudden Service, Kingsport, TN (small business)
Chugach School District, Anchorage, AK (education)
Pearl River School District, Pearl River, NY (education)
University of Wisconsin–Stout, Menomonie, WI (education)

[edit]2000

Dana Corp.-Spicer Driveshaft Division, Toledo, OH (manufacturing)

KARLEE Company, Inc., Garland, TX (manufacturing)
Operations Management International, Inc., Greenwood Village, CO (service)
Los Alamos National Bank, Los Alamos, NM (small business)

[edit]1999

STMicroelectronics, Inc.-Region Americas, Carrollton, TX (manufacturing)

BI Performance Services, Minneapolis, MN (service)
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C., Atlanta, GA (service)
Sunny Fresh Foods, Monticello, MN (small business)
[edit]1998

Boeing Airlift and Tanker Programs, Long Beach, CA (manufacturing)

Solar Turbines Inc., San Diego, CA (manufacturing)
Texas Nameplate Company, Inc., Dallas, TX (small business)

[edit]1997

3M Dental Products Division, St. Paul, MN (manufacturing)

Solectron Corp., Milpitas, CA (manufacturing)
Merrill Lynch Credit Corp., Jacksonville, FL (service)
Xerox Business Services, Rochester, NY (service)

[edit]1996

ADAC Laboratories, Milpitas, CA (manufacturing)

Dana Commercial Credit Corp., Toledo, OH (service)
Custom Research Inc., Minneapolis, MN (small business)
Trident Precision Manufacturing Inc., Webster, NY (small business)

[edit]1995

Armstrong World Industries’ Building Products Operation, Lancaster, PA (manufacturing)

Corning Telecommunications Products Division, Corning, NY (manufacturing)

[edit]1994

AT&T Consumer Communications Services, Basking Ridge, NJ (service)

GTE Directories Corp., Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX (service)
Wainwright Industries Inc., St. Peters, MO (small business)

[edit]1993

Eastman Chemical Co., Kingsport, TN (manufacturing)

Ames Rubber Corp., Hamburg, NJ (small business)

[edit]1992

AT&T Network Systems Group/Transmission Systems Business Unit, Morristown, NJ (manufacturing)

Texas Instruments Inc. Defense Systems & Electronics Group, Dallas, TX (manufacturing)
AT&T Universal Card Services, Jacksonville, FL (service)
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., Atlanta, GA (service)
Granite Rock Co., Watsonville, CA (small business)

[edit]1991

Solectron Corp., Milpitas, CA (manufacturing)

Zytec Corp., Eden Prairie, MN (manufacturing)
Marlow Industries, Dallas, TX (small business)
[edit]1990

Cadillac Motor Car Division, Detroit, MI (manufacturing)

IBM Rochester, Rochester, MN (manufacturing)
Federal Express Corp., Memphis, TN (service)
Wallace Co. Inc., Houston, TX (small business)

[edit]1989

Milliken & Co., Spartanburg, SC (manufacturing)

Xerox Corp. Business Products and Systems, Rochester, NY (manufacturing)

[edit]1988

Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IL (manufacturing)

Commercial Nuclear Fuel Division of Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (manufacturing)
Globe Metallurgical Inc., Beverly, OH (small business)

Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award was instituted by the Bureau of Indian Standards in
1991, with a view to encouraging Indian manufacturing and service organizations to strive for
excellence and giving special recognition to those who are considered to be the leaders of
quality movement in India. This award is intended to generate interest and involvement of
Indian Industry in quality programmes, drive our products and services to higher levels of
quality and equip our Industry to meet the challenges of domestic and International markets.
The award has been named after our Late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, recognizing the new
thrust he had given to the quality movement in India so that India could move into 21st
Century with pride.
Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award would help Indian Industry to improve quality by:
a) Encouraging Indian Industry to make significant improvements in quality for maximizing
consumer satisfaction and for successfully facing competition in the global market as
well;
b) Recognizing the achievements of those organizations which have improved the quality of
their products and services and thereby set an example for others;
c) Establishing guidelines and criteria that can be used by industry in evaluating their own
quality improvement efforts; and
d) Providing specific guidance to other organizations that wish to learn how to achieve
excellence in quality, by making available detailed information on the `Quality
Management Approach' adopted by award winning organizations to change their culture
and achieve eminence.
The award has been designed in line with similar awards in other developed countries, like
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in USA, Deming Prize in Japan and European
Quality Award.
FREQUENCY
Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award is an annual feature on the basis of financial year. The
2008 award will be considered for results achieved by the organization from 1 April
2007 to 31 March 2008.
BENEFITS TO THE APPLICANT ORGANIZATIONS

 It will enable the organization to assess its own level of commitment to quality. It
will also indicate the extent to which this commitment is being deployed through
every level of the organization and in all areas of activities.

 Further, after the process of self assessment is completed, the organization will be
in a position to analyze its strengths and weaknesses.

BENEFITS TO THE AWARD WINNERS

 Award winning organization(s) will be reckoned as champions of quality

movement in India.
 Award winners can publicize their achievements on their printed and publicity
material. However, if a unit of an organization is selected for the award, it will be
permitted to publicize its achievements on the printed and publicity material of that
unit only, and not that of entire corporate body.
 Awards will be presented in a glittering ceremony in presence of top ranking
personalities from government, professional bodies, industry, and consumer
associations.

 Award winners may have leverage in business on being recognized as the best.

 Financial incentives
- Organizations winning the BEST OF ALL Award would be given cash award of Rs. 500 000.
- Organizations winning the other awards would be given cash award of Rs. 100 000.
- Organization receiving the commendation certificates would be given cash award of Rs 50 000.

AWARDS AND COMMENDATION CERTIFICATES

There are five awards consisting of one for large scale manufacturing organizations, one for
small scale manufacturing organizations, one for large scale service sector organizations, one
for small scale service sector organizations and one for BEST OF ALL. In addition, there are
eight commendation certificates each for large scale and small scale manufacturing
organizations as per industrial sectors given below:
a) Bio-technology,
b) Chemical industry;
c) Electrical and electronic industry;
d) Food and drug industry;
e) Gems, jewellery and allied industry;
f) Metallurgical industry;
g) Textile industry; and
h) Engineering industry and others.
Further, there are six commendation certificates each for large scale and small scale service
organizations in the following sectors:

a) Education
b) Finance,
c) Health Care,
d) Information Technology,
e) Utilities, and
f) Others.
The number of awards/commendation certificates indicated above is maximum. In the event
of non-availability of suitable applicants as per assessment criteria decided by the National
Awards Committee (NAC), any of the above awards/commendation certificates may not be
given.
The BEST OF ALL award consists of a certificate and a plaque, gold plated silver salver of
25 cm diameter. The plaque will be inscribed with logo `Q' in oval shape containing a line
profile of late RajivGandhi. It will also bear the inscriptions `Rajiv Gandhi National Quality
Award, 2008 - BEST OF ALL' and the name of the winning organization. In addition, the
winner will also be given financial incentive in the form of a cash award of Rs. 500 000.

The other awards will consist of a certificate and a plaque, silver salver of 20
cm diameter. The plaque will be inscribed with logo `Q' in oval shape containing a line
profile of late Rajiv Gandhi. It will also bear the inscriptions `Rajiv Gandhi National Quality
Award, 2008 - Category' and the name of the winning organization. In addition, the winners
will also be given financial incentive in the form of a cash award of Rs. 100 000 each.

The commendation certificate will consist of a certificate and a plaque, silver salver of 15
cm diameter. The plaque will be inscribed with logo `Q' in oval shape containing a line
profile of late Rajiv Gandhi. It will also bear the inscriptions `Rajiv Gandhi National Quality
Award, 2008 – Commendation (Industrial Sector)' and the name of the winning organization.
In addition, the recipients of commendation certificates will also be given financial incentive
in the form of a cash award of Rs. 50 000 each.
ELIGIBILITY TO COMPETE FOR THE AWARD
An organization is eligible to compete for the award, if it satisfies all the following
conditions:
a) Applicant organization is located in India,
b) Applicant organization has been in existence for at least three years as on last date of
the application.
c) Applicant organization is situated at one place or a unit of an organization housed at
one location,
 d) Applicant organization has never been convicted by any court for deficiency in
product or service and/or found guilty of financial irregularities by any regulatory authority
or court. An undertaking to this effect will have to be submitted.
e) Applicant organization is not manufacturing products, like tobacco and liquor etc
which are injurious to health.
A Sub-unit which performs only support functions for the parent organization such as, sales, marketing,
distribution, finance, human resources and health are not eligible. [A Sub-unit is a Unit or Division of a larger
organization (Parent organization) which owns or has organizational and/ or financial control of sub-unit]

Further, if an applicant organization has earlier received an award, it is not eligible to apply
for an award for next three awards. However, this condition will not apply to those applicant
organizations which have received commendation certificate.
FEE
Application Fee
For large scale organizations (manufacturing or service) Rs. 5 000
For small scale organizations (manufacturing or service) Rs. 1 500
The application fee includes the cost of preliminary screening of the application, and shall be
payable along with the application form. In case application form , downloaded from BIS
website, is used for applying for the award, an additional amount of Rs 200/- is required to be
submitted along with the application fee.
Assessment Fee
The applicant organization, which after preliminary screening is selected for fact-finding and
evaluation visits, will have to pay the assessment fee as under:
For large scale organizations (manufacturing or service) (two-days visit) Rs. 40 000
For small scale organizations (manufacturing or service) (one-day visit) Rs. 10 000
In addition to the above assessment fee, the applicant organizations will also have to bear to-
and-fro travel and local hospitality expenses for evaluation committee members visiting their
organizations.

Application fee and Assessment fee are non-refundable and shall be paid by Demand Draft
in favour of Bureau of Indian Standards payable at New Delhi.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
The assessment for large scale organization will be made on the basis of nine parameters,
namely, Leadership; Policies, Objectives and strategies; Human resource management;
Resources; Processes; Customer focused results; Employees’ satisfaction, Impact on
environment and society; and Business results.
The assessment for small scale organization will be made on the basis of six parameters,
namely, Leadership; Human resource management; Processes; Customer focused results;
Impact on environment and society; and Business results.
Emphasis will be placed on quality achievement and quality improvement as demonstrated
through the information provided by applicant organization.
ASSESSMENT PROCESS
All the applications received shall be screened as per the criteria laid down on the basis of
information provided by the applicant organization. Applicants selected in preliminary
screening will become eligible for fact-finding and evaluation visits. A team of experts
appointed for this purpose would visit the applicant organization for on-the-spot study and
evaluation.

Golden Peacock National Quality Award

The Award

The Golden Peacock National Quality Award, named after India's national bird the
"Peacock", is awarded every year. Each category has two awards - the Winner and the
Runners up. Each winner and runners up receives a trophy together with a certificate.
The award winners may use the Golden Peacock National Quality Award logo on their
printed and promotional material. Selected organisations may be given a commendation
card. The Golden Peacock National Quality Award would be given separately for
manufacturing and service sector organisations, under the following categories :

Normal Categories

· Large Enterprises (LE) --> 251 and above Employees

· Medium Enterprises (ME) --> 51 to 250 Employees
· Small Enterprises (SE) --> upto 50 employees

Special Categories

1. Education, Training, Research and development, Testing & Inspection

2. Service Sector covering Tourism, Transport, Couriers, Hotels & Hospitality,
Healthcare, Telecommunication, Professional consultancies, Financial Institutions.
3. Government Organisations, Undertakings & Services.

Eligibility

Manufacturing or Service organizations or parts of organisations (self accounting profit

centres) in the private and public sector operating in India may participate in the Golden
Peacock National Quality Award.
The decisive factor for eligibility is that the operations of the applicant must reasonably
correspond to all the Award criteria and which can be verified in India at the time of
evaluation.
The operations of the applicant must be carried out independently, meaning that
responsibilities, authorities, results, etc. are clearly defined. This must be documented,
for example, in the annual report, organisation plan or equivalent.

Rules & Regulations

Awards Council reserves the right to alter the Award Scheme.

Awards Council reserves the right to award more than one trophy each year and
 also to withhold awards if the required standard is not met.
Awards Council accepts no liability for any loss resulting from the disclosure of
information concerning an entry, though all reasonable precautions will be taken to
maintain secrecy.
Awards Council cannot undertake to return documents or supplementary material
submitted with an entry.
Few selected Award winners may also be invited to make a brief presentation in
the ensuing "World Congress on Total Quality" to share their experiences.
The decision of the National Chairman of the Awards Council,on the
recommendations of the Panel of Judges is final and no appeal or correspondence
will be entertained

NON - DISCLOSURE AND CONFIDENTIALITY:

Names of applicants, commentary and scoring information developed during the review
of applications are regarded as proprietary by IOD and are kept confidential. Such
information is available only to those individuals directly involved in the assessment and
administrative process.

IOD will take all reasonable action to ensure that applications and information therein
are treated in strict confidence. However, in no way can IOD be held responsible for any
loss of confidentiality to a third party. Moreover, IOD cannot be held liable for any
damage (to goods, or persons, financial loss or consequential) incurred through the
breach of confidentiality or otherwise by the applicants or any third party.

IOD reserves the right, prior to or subsequent to the Award Presentation, to publish and
made public the salient details of the Quality improvement schemes of the Award
Winners, as a step towards sharing of knowledge in the national interest.

FEEDBACK
All applicants for Golden Peacock National Quality Award scheme will receive a feed back
assessment report.

APPLICATION
The Application should be submitted in duplicate neatly typed (minimum font size 10 pt.)
only on one side of A-4 size paper in English covering the following:

1. Table of contents
2. Basic Information
3 Business Overview
4. Self-Appraisal Report
a) This report will be based on GPNQA model and criteria guidelines given under the title
criteria description (as per annexure-3 attached). The guidelines consists of a set of
questions which when answered, duly supported by the objective evidence, would help in
appreciating the extent of excellence achieved by the applicant.
b) Support material:- Support material may have been derived from self-assessment of
the organisation's activities. This information must be closely aligned with the nine
Award assessment criterias. The criteria are carefully and deliberately phrased in non-
prescriptive terms, to allow you the freedom to present self-assessment information
which is relevant to your specific situation.
 The Institution of Engineers (India)
Safety and Quality Forum (SQF)

Safety and Quality Awards 2009

About IEI
The Institution of Engineers (India) set up in 1920 is the largest body of professional
engineers in India with a membership of nearly 5,00,000 members. The Safety and Quality
Forum of The Institution of Engineers (India) established in the year 2003, is engaged in
promoting the knowledge and information in the field of safety and quality. The aim of the
Forum is to network with various national, regional and local government bodies; as also
with the industry, public and private sector, academia and others and inculcate the
concepts of safety and quality in applications and operations.

About the Safety and Quality Awards

The Safety and Quality Awards have been instituted by the Safety and Quality Forum of
IEI with a view to encourage professionals from manufacturing and service sectors to
strive for excellence.

The Safety and Quality Awards of the Institution would help

a) Encouraging professionals to make significant improvements in safety and quality

practices for maximizing workforce and consumer satisfaction and for successfully
facing competition in the global markets;

b) Recognizing the achievements of those professionals who have improved in the

field extensively and thereby set an example for others;

c) Establishing guidelines and criteria to evaluate competency of professionals.

The Awards
The Awards will be presented on the basis of applications received from different
individuals and selection made by a Committee approved by the Board of Governors of
the Safety and Quality Forum of the Institution. Each winner shall receive an award, i.e., a
Plaque of Honour along with a Certificate and Citation.

The Committee will be empowered also to short-list individuals who might not have
otherwise applied.

Award Winners can use the 'Award Logo' on their print and promotion materials by
mentioning the Year of the Award and the names of 'The Institution of Engineers (India)'
and 'Safety and Quality Forum' .

These Awards will be given every year. The Safety and Quality Awards 2009 will be
presented at the Twenty-fourth Indian Engineering Congress of the Institution scheduled
to be held at Mangalore, India during December 10-13, 2009.
Basis of Evaluation
The assessment of applications will be done to identify the contribution of professionals
in the field of safety or quality through innovation, creativity, achievement, commitment,
well researched replicability and sustainability.

Eligibility to compete for the Award

An applicant is eligible to compete for the award, if he / she satisfies the following
conditions :

a) The Applicant is located in India.

b) The Applicant has been working in the concerned field for at least ten years as on
the last date of submitting the application.

c) The Applicant has never been convicted by any Court for deficiency in product or
service and / or found guilty of financial irregularities by any regulatory authority or
Court. An undertaking to this effect will have to be submitted.

d) The Applicant is not involved in profession relating to manufacturing of product like

tobacco and liquor, etc which are injurious to health.

Assessment Criteria
The assessment will be made on the basis of different parameters to be identified from
time to time.

Emphasis will be placed on safety and quality achievement and quality improvement as
demonstrated through the information provided by the applicant.

Assessment Process
All the applications received shall be screened as per the criteria laid down on the basis
of information provided by the applicant. The Applicants selected in preliminary
screening will become eligible for final assessment and fact-finding exercise. A team of
experts appointed for this purpose would evaluate and assess the applications.

Final Selection
A Jury of experts will recommend winners for the Safety and Quality Awards based on the
evaluation of the written applications and the results of fact-finding exercises.

The final selection will be approved by the Committee formed by the Board of Governors
of the Safety and Quality Forum of IEI.

Non-disclosure and Confidentiality

The names of applicants, examination and scoring information developed during the
review of applications shall be regarded as proprietary and kept confidential. Such
information shall be available only to those individuals directly involved in the
assessment and administrative processes and shall not be disclosed.

Right to reject Application

The applications that do not fulfill the requirements as mentioned in the announcement
may be rejected. The team of experts also reserves the right to reject applications
considered to fall below the required standards. The decision of the Committee appointed
for this purpose shall be final and binding on all concerned in all respects.

Submission of Forms and Last Date

Five (05) copies of the application form duly filled-in by the applicant should be sent
before September 30, 2009 to :