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NECA’s Recognition of Safety Achievement program is an elite safety recognition focused on recognizing thriving companies that excel in multiple areas of their safety and health programs. Member companies that consistently show no injuries, illnesses or fatalities and implement internal company safety practices above and beyond basic compliance will continue to be recognized with our Zero-Injury Recognition program. New criteria for Safety Excellence were introduced in 2025. The new criteria follows the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) and overall safety industry focus on companies that implement internal company safety practices above and beyond basic compliance and show an absence of serious injuries and fatalities.
Safety Leaders and OSHA have learned while recordables have been driven steadily downward serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs) have not. The elite companies that successfully address SIFs need to be recognized. The Safety Excellence is the association’s premier recognition program and acknowledges member-contractors’ safety performance.
When registering, contractors will automatically be entered into the Zero Injury and Safety Excellence Safety Recognition Program. Those who are recognized are selected based on their comparison to BLS data and electrical contractors.
The NECA Safety Ambassadors Medal recognizes the top NECA member that has exemplified superior performance in the area of safety providing leadership, support and recognition to employees that lead by example. The NECA Safety Ambassadors medal recipient is selected for achieving a superior safety performance score in the NECA Recognition of Safety Achievement Programs. This cumulative score is based on a point system for having injury and illness rates and an Experience Modification Rate (EMR) which are better than the BLS Statistics, OSHA, insurance, and industry safety standards.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Wes Wheeler.
Wes Wheeler, Executive Director, Safety
NECA
Wesley L. Wheeler, SMP, CESCP, MSP is the National Electrical Contractor Association, (NECA), Executive Director of Safety. Wesley joined NECA in 2014 and has over 46 years of electrical experience.
Wesley graduated electrical apprenticeship in Jacksonville, FL and has been a member of IBEW LU 177 since 1984. Wesley is a BCSP Safety Management Specialist, an NFPA Certified Electrical Safety Compliance Professional, and a NASP Master Safety Professional. Wesley Serves on the CIASP, Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention, Board of Trustees.
Prior to NECA, he was safety consultant in his own business, Wheeler Safety Services, Inc. and has been a Safety Director and OSHA Safety trainer for a large industrial based electrical contractor in Florida. Wesley is a qualified OSHA Construction Outreach Instructor and has assisted in OSHA Instructor classes for Electrical Training Alliance, (etA, formerly known as the NJATC). He also has assisted etA in textbook development contributing to their OSHA workbooks. Wesley has served in many capacities in his career from electrician, foreman, superintendent, estimator, project manager to safety director and is a former member of OSHA’s Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH). He also has a Florida State Certified Electrical Contractor License and has also served on the NECA Codes and Standards committee for the since 2008 representing NECA on the NEC-NFPA 70 Code Panels 6 and 7 and was member of the NFPA 70E Committee for the 2018 and 2021 editions.
Wesley brings a unique, overall perspective to his position. Wesley is also a trained First Aid/BLS instructor, a Department of Labor Mine Safety Health Administration Instructor, and has had OSHA General Industry Outreach Trainer credentials from University of South Florida.