Valard takes CSEA award on a journey celebrating safety culture

When Valard Construction received the award for Canada’s Safest Utilities and Electrical Employer at the 2025 Canadian Safety Excellence Awards last month, the company decided the trophy shouldn’t gather dust in a boardroom. Instead, Valard launched a cross-country “Trophy Field Tour,” sending the award on a journey to job sites that will see it travel across Canada and south of the border, turning a symbol of achievement into a living celebration of frontline safety culture.

“We want to reflect that the award is the efforts that they do every single day,” says Shilo Neveu, Valard’s executive vice president of health, safety & environment. “I’m merely the dude that just picked up the trophy… that award is from the field. The

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