The mission of the Center for Offshore Safety (COS) is to promote the highest level of safety for the U.S. offshore oil and natural gas industry through effective leadership, communication, teamwork, utilization of disciplined management systems and independent third-party auditing and certification. The COS Safety Leadership Award Program intends to encourage and reward outstanding contributions to improving safety management and performance through leadership, communication, and teamwork by U.S. offshore oil and gas industry participants. Finalists' presentations will be shared on the COS website and past presentations can be viewed here - www.centerforoffshoresafety.org

Two COS Leadership Recognition categories have been identified for 2025

1. Outstanding contribution in 2024/2025 by an Operator to the development and sharing of good safety management practices for the U.S. offshore oil and gas industry
2. Outstanding contribution in 2024/2025 by a Contractor to the development and sharing of good safety management practices for the U.S. offshore oil and gas industry

Please address the criteria with clear and concise responses, with a maximum of three typed pages and 1,500 words or fewer. Your nomination should describe how the nominee (project, initiative, program, or publication) eliminated or reduced safety risk or improved HSSE performance of offshore oil and gas operations. Preference will be given to those nominations:

• • focused on major accident risk - covering both personal and process safety.
  • that actually demonstrate evidence of risk reduction or elimination and/or HSSE performance improvement.
  • where risk and HSSE performance improvement was delivered in a systematic way through a HSSE management system.
  • that were effectively shared with industry.
  • submitted per instructions and criteria. Pictures are allowed and encouraged. Videos are not accepted with the nomination but are certainly encouraged for the finalists’ presentations at the COS Forum.