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ASSOCIATIONS SEIFSA encourages transformation South Africa’s metals and engineering (M&E) sector is one of the country’s least transformed sectors in our economy. T he Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) has established the SEIFSA Awards for Excellence, which aims to not only encourage companies operating in this vital sector of the economy to transform, but also to celebrate those companies that are trailblazers when it comes to transformation. “Transformation in the M&E sector has taken place at a painfully slow pace. We, therefore, believe that it is critically important that companies that take transformation in the industry seriously should be encouraged and hailed,” says SEIFSA chief executive officer, Kaizer Nyatsumba. He said the Most Transformed Company of the Year Award will be awarded to the company that showed the highest transformation level in the composition of its board of directors, executive management and managerial team during 2017. This award category pits companies employing fewer than 100 people against those of similar size, and companies that employ more than 100 companies against others of similar size. The awards are open to all companies in the metals and engineering sector, and not only those that are members of associations affiliated to SEIFSA. Award winners will be honoured at a ceremony at the IDC Conference Centre in Sandton on 24 May 2018. Other awards that form the seven categories of the SEIFSA Awards for Excellence include: • The Most Innovative Company of the Year to be awarded to a company that showed the best level of innovation in research and development or production in 2017; • The Health and Safety Award of the Year to the company with the best legal compliance record in health and safety or the lowest lost-time injury frequency rate in 2017; • Entries are also invited from companies with Corporate Social Investment (CSI) programme/s in 2017 that had a major impact on the lives of its beneficiaries; • The company rated the highest in customer service performance in 2017 will receive the Customer Service Award of the Year; • The Decade of the Artisan award will be made to the company that trained the highest number of artisans in 2017; and 4 MAY 2018 RESIDENTIAL // COMMERCIAL // INDUSTRIAL • The Environment Stewardship Award goes to a company that has successfully implemented greening initiatives in its day-to-day business operations in 2017. SEIFSA says that transformation in the M&E sector has taken place at a painfully slow pace.