National STEP awards presented to 32 Delaware members
ABC National Safety Training and Evaluation Process Awards or STEP Awards were presented to 32 ABC Delaware members during the May 5 dinner meeting at White Clay Creek Country Club in Newark.
The STEP award program provides an organized approach to analyze and further develop your company's safety and loss prevention program and provides a vital, objective method to measure safety program improvements. STEP award certificates are given in four categories, bronze, silver, gold, diamond and platinum.

ABC Delaware Chairman Joe Swarter congratulates
Silver STEP winners Janey Kunkle of Ehret Construction
and John DeMatties of Quantum Controls.

Gold STEP winners (left to right) Alliance Electric-Kevin Morgan; Bancroft Construction-June Griffith, County Group
Companies-Joe Waninger; DiSabatino Construction-Bob
Manning; Custom Iron Shop-Joe Swarter.

ABC Delaware Chairman Joe Swarter (right) congratulates
Gold STEP winners (left to right) Drywall Inc-Bryan Hannum;
EDiS-Kim Tiger; Farrell Roofing-Matt Holland; GG+A
Construction-Ray Knight; and Guardian Construction-Tina Davis.

ABC Delaware Chairman Joe Swarter (right) congratulates
Gold STEP winners (left to right) J.F. Sobieski-Dave Eppleheimer; Nickle Electrical-Mike Anderson; Pearce & Moretto-Richard Eitel; Quality Heating & A/C Dave Lux; and RC Fabricators-Marc Klair.

ABC Delaware Chairman Joe Swarter (left to right) congratulates
Gold STEP winners Tricon Construction-Bill Hart; Service
Unlimited-Carol Wolf, Brian Martinenza and Ralph Rose;
and Sobieski Fire Protection-Sonny Telford.

ABC Delaware Chairman Joe Swarter (right) congratulates
Gold STEP winners (left to right) The Tri-M Group-Paul Langan; Wayman Fire Protection-Alisha Bryson; and Worth &
Company-Marie Wright.

ABC Delaware Chairman Joe Swarter (left) congratulates Diamond STEP winner George & Lynch and Ken Heinsch.

ABC Delaware Chairman Joe Swarter (right) congratulates
Platinum STEP winners (left to right) BE & K-Steve; Eastern
Industrial Services-Pete Faverio; M. Davis & Sons-John Gooden;
and Nason Construction-Mike Berardi.

ABC Delaware Chairman Joe Swarter congratulates members of the Eastern Industrial Services team Wes Pernell, Eric Robertson and Russell Perry for winning the ABC National Safety Excellence Award. The award recognizes companies whose safety performance and programs are judged to be exemplary by the ABC National Environment, Health & Safety Committee, and to companies who exhibit a continued commitment to job safety. This is the second year in a row that Eastern has been presented with the award.
Deadline for ABC Delaware Chapter is March 5
Program Benefits
- Organized approach for analyzing and developing safety and loss prevention programs
- The Key Component system forms a 20 point guide to starting, updating or auditing a company-wide safety program
- Incorporates both OSHA required safety data with self-assessment requirements to give a full, wide ranging report on the entire nature of a company's Safety Program
- Designed to benefit both large and small contractors alike
- 2009 STEP data shows STEP participants beat BLS national averages in a number of areas, leading to benefits both when bidding for business and negotiating insurance rates. See 2009 STEP Data Report
- All companies claim that safety is a priority, with STEP you can prove it