Award Descriptions
Best Overall (up to 2 winners based on overall visits)
Comprehensive programs that demonstrate effective safety education and prevention to establish a culture of safety among employees and guests.
Best Your Responsibility Code Program
Efforts that excel at promoting the updated Your Responsibility Code’s 10 tenets through both internal training and guest education.
Best Collision Prevention Campaign
Campaigns that communicate the critical message of collision awareness and prevention most effectively, including efforts specific to #RideAnotherDay.
Best Guest Safety Program
Standout programs that promote awareness of important factors like wearing a helmet and using chairlifts and terrain parks safely
Best Employee Safety Program
Exceptional initiatives that put staff safety front and center every day and keep employees educated on safety best practices and programs.
Safety Champion
A ski area employee who shows dedication toward helping employees and guests learn about safe skiing and riding, and advocates for safer work practices and healthier behaviors.
Best Lift Safety Education Program
This new award highlights efforts to maximize safety for chairlift riders, whether it’s reminders and reinforcement to lower the restraint bar and raise it at the right time, ensuring guests load and unload surface lifts properly, or maintaining maze and line structure so that unseated passenger incidents become even less likely.