BWC Offers Cash Prizes to Innovative Businesses

Safety innovations can be worth as much as $6,000 to a creative Ohio business. Entries in the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s annual safety innovation contest offering cash prizes between $1,000 and $6,000 are due by Sept. 30, according to a notice on the Bureau’s website. Employers from the public and private sector are eligible to enter the contest rewarding organizations for their innovations that have reduced safety, ergonomic and occupational health risks for their workers, according to the notice. The ideas will be scored on a number of criteria, includin...