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In Focus! Safe Workplaces For All Photo Contest

 

Photo contest on hold until further notice. Questions? Email infocus@mail.nih.gov

What's Your Image of Workplace Safety and Health? 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) "In Focus! Safe Workplaces for All" photo contest is on hold until further notice.  


The contest challenges anyone with a passion for photography to capture an image of workplace safety and health and share it with the Office of Research Services (ORS), Division of Occupational Health and Safety (DOHS).  The goal of the contest is to further efforts to reduce personal injuries and illnesses; educate and underscore the importance of safety; foster innovation to create shared solutions; and achieve community involvement by relying on your talent, imagination and creativity to raise awareness of workplace safety and health.  You can interpret "image of workplace safety and health" in any way you choose; you are not restricted to particular subjects or themes.  Pictures can be taken of a variety of workplaces and is not limited to the NIH workplace.  The contest challenges anyone with a passion for photography to capture an image of workplace safety and health and share it with the Office of Research Services (ORS), Division of Occupational Health and Safety (DOHS).  The goal of the contest is to further efforts to reduce personal injuries and illnesses; educate and underscore the importance of safety; foster innovation to create shared solutions; and achieve community involvement by relying on your talent, imagination and creativity to raise awareness of workplace safety and health.  You can interpret "image of workplace safety and health" in any way you choose; you are not restricted to particular subjects or themes.  Pictures can be taken of a variety of workplaces and is not limited to the NIH workplace.   

Judging Criteria

Photographic entries which depict a safe work environment, as determined by DOHS Safety Specialists, will be forwarded to an expert panel of judges comprised of professionals working in the NIH graphic arts and photography community.  Prizes will be awarded for the most outstanding portrayals of occupational safety and health in terms of artistic value and ability to raise awareness of safety and health to the NIH community.

 

Specifically, photographs will be judged against the following criteria: 

  • Suitability for possible use in NIH, ORS, DOHS publications and websites

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  • Clarity of the safety and health information (or "message") conveyed

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  • Originality

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  • Creativity

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  • Inclusion of worker, employer, or workplace imagery

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  • Qualify of Photograph


Pictures of workers performingin safe practices: Lab researchers holding test tubes; welder; & picture of floor & wet floor sign