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Safety & Safe Driver Awards

Building a culture serious about safety is no simple task.  People, not policies, prevent accidents.  Studies show that a high percentage of workplace injuries are attitude, behavior and/or culture based.  So it is important to develop and maintain a safe driver recognition program to increase individual awareness and reinforce a “safety-first” culture.

Incentive and recognition programs are effective tools to improve safety performance because they focus on best-practice behaviors, key-performance indicators and results.  Properly structured and deployed, safety recognition program will communicate standards-of-excellence across a wide variety of safety initiative and promote the awards – your custom symbols of success.

There are several different categories of Safety and Safe Driver Recognition awards.  

  • Safe Miles Driven

    Most safe driver recognition programs include safe miles driven tiers.  The tiers allow for stepping-stones ensuring early recognition opportunities (tied to performance) and top-performer recognition at more significant milestones.  Tiered programs often start at 100,000 miles and build to one and two million miles, or more.

  • Years of Safe Work or Driving

    Safety and safe driver recognition is often structured with years of safety or safe driving as the goal.  Basing your program, or an element of your program, on years makes it easy to create a tiered recognition structure.

  • Complementary Recognition

    To increase awareness of particularly high risk times, or to recognize other driver and worker safety initiatives, many companies also incorporate such programs as Driver of the Year, Good Samaritan, Summer or Winter Campaigns, and National Truck Driver Appreciation Week – just to name a few.

Case Studies

  • Greatwide Trucking Driver of the Year Award Ring

    Our Jewelry Speaks For Itself: Why Greatwide Logistics Expanded Their Awards Program

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  • Landstar Safe Driving Award

    How Landstar Systems Uses Our Custom Jewelry to Motivate Their “Road Stars”

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  • International Trucking "Truck Grill" Collection

    Creating Promotional Jewelry For Purchase

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Let us help you design the perfect solution (and styles!) to recognize your high achievers, and keep the motivated and engaged.

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Volunteer Service Award

Years of Service Recognition

The most widespread employee recognition program among employers today is the service award program (years of service recognition).  There is good reason for this:

A Cicero Group study confirmed that companies that have implemented effective years of service award programs have almost 20% more employees that feel strongly that their company cares about them and that they personally fit in and belong to the organization.  Additionally, employees who felt positively about these key engagement elements stayed 4 years longer at their companies than employees not similarly engaged.

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Recognition early and often will not only endear a company’s employees to them but will retain them much longer than industry average. 

Consider recognizing them with an award that is truly personal.  Custom jewelry awards are something they cannot buy – only earn.  They have an intrinsic value and include the company’s branding – reminding the employee who values them.

Project Ideas

A popular trend right now is custom badge holder emblems as years of service awards.  Many employees have to wear a badge for ID or security purposes so these badge holder emblems are highly functional as well as stylish.  Badge holder emblems can not only include years of service recognition, but other on-the-spot add-on recognition such as particular certification levels, attendance or quality goals or any other specific recognition a company wants to award.

Badge Holder Examples

  • Holiday Inn Service Award Pins

    How Our Recognition Program with Holiday Inn Helped Improve Employee Retention and Morale

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  • Turningstone Casino Dream Catcher Badge Holder

    Creating an All-encompassing Program

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Healthcare Recognition

Hospital and healthcare workers are the cornerstone of our society.  They deserve to be recognized for their meaningful contributions.  Recognizing length of service, training and certification achievements, wellness goals and more will motivate and engage staff to give their very best.

One great tool for recognition is the badge holder.  Most healthcare staff need to wear a badge, so adding their recognition award to their badge makes it functional and visible.  The award will go with the wearer everywhere they go, reminding them of the value their organization places on them and inspiring others to achieve success as well.  Badge holders can also include multiple types of recognition that can be added on right on the spot.

Create a Custom Badge Holder with E. A. Dion

Do your employees wear badges? What a great way to show company pride and reward employee accomplishments! In this video, E. A. Dion's Marketing Assistant Aubrey Dion shows you some of the options for creating a custom badge holder and how to use it. E. A. Dion is a full-service jewelry manufacturer that can create custom objects in metal for your company for employee reward and recognition purposes.

Today’s employees also want choices.  Why not offer them choices in their years of service and other recognition awards?  Custom jewelry awards, when creatively designed, can be made into a variety of stylish and functional pieces – anything from bracelet charms to money clips to badge holders.  See what Dion can create for your recognition awards.

Case Studies

  • Lakeland Regional Medical Center Awareness Pin

    Unmatched Design, Collaboration & Expedition: The Story of Lakeland Regional Medical Center Lapel Pins

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  • MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

    Take the Logo and Run! How Our Design Team Created MedStar Georgetown University Hospital’s Service Award Pins

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  • Powell Valley Heathcare Add-On Pin Program

    One Pin, Six Add-On Achievements – The Powell Valley Healthcare Pin

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Let us help you design the perfect solution (and styles!) to recognize your vital staff members, and keep them motivated, engaged, and feeling appreciated.

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Recognize Career Level Achievement

Engagement and enthusiasm is important for all organizations, particularly those with an independent sales force.  Recognition early and often is a key ingredient.  Career level acknowledgement is a great way to build loyalty from your sales force and encourage them to reach even higher levels.

Custom jewelry career level awards offer unique benefits. Jewelry goes with the wearer at all times and is highly visible, so customers and others will see the award and ask about it.

In-Field Add-On jewelry is another option to consider with these awards. Add-On jewelry can incorporate multiple rewards – career rank, sales level, recruiting goals, etc. Check out the short video below on the many ways you can add-on to a custom jewelry piece.

See how custom career level recognition jewelry can help you retain, motivate and inspire your sales force. Here are a few case studies you may find interesting.

Case Studies

  • Saladmaster Spirit of Success Career Path Pin Program

    Visualizing Career Progress

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  • Isagenix Career Path and Sales Award Jewelry

    How We Completely Revamped The Isagenix Sales Award Program

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  • Nefful Career Path Program

    The Most Glamorous Way to Motivate Your Teams

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Let us help you design the perfect solution (and styles!) to recognize your high achievers, and keep them motivated and engaged.

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Championship Jewelry

The championship ring is the pinnacle of athletic achievement.  Major league teams of all types can attest to that.  And this phenomenon extends well beyond professional sports – to college, high school and even amateur club sports.  So once a team accomplishes this goal, the final product should be something they will be proud to wear for many years to come.  Dion has a long reputation for top quality design and production.  With over 50 years of experience designing award rings for top professional teams and Fortune 500 companies, Dion is your go-to for advice and creativity on your championship ring project.

Athletics & Event Jewelry

Beyond rings, other custom jewelry products are awarded and given away at tournaments and matches every day. Some examples of custom athletic jewelry applications include:

  • The PGA gives players, staff and officials custom money clips and bag tags at each tournament.  These pieces are used for identification during the tournament and are highly coveted mementoes by each participant.
  • Marathons and other races around the world honor participants with medallions – awarded to participants as they cross the finish line.
  • Youth sports teams trade custom lapel pins with other teams at regional, state and national events.

These are just a few examples of the many ways custom award jewelry can be used in the athletic and sports arena.  Speak with a Dion Account Manager about ways you can incorporate custom jewelry into your organization’s events.

Case Studies

  • Charlotte Bobcats Modeled Cufflinks

    Our Unmatched Custom Design and the 3D Charlotte Bobcat Cufflinks

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  • Motocross Championship Rings

    “The Triple Crown of Motorcycle Racing” – GNCC, World Supercross, and ATVA

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  • VISA Summer Olympics Cufflinks

    Balancing Branding With Fashion: Our VISA Olympics Cufflinks

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Let us help you design the perfect awards jewelry for your athletics programs and events, and championship awards.

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Memberships and Affiliations

People take pride in the organizations they affiliate themselves with and want the world to know they are a part of something bigger.  Custom jewelry is one of the best ways to tell this story.  Jewelry goes with the wearer everywhere they go and connects them to the organizations they love.

Custom jewelry can serve many purposes for an organization, such as:

  • Member or officer rank designation
  • Donor appreciation gifts
  • Event/conference commemoration
  • Fundraising
  • Organization brand awareness

Let Dion show you the many ways custom jewelry can be incorporated into your organization.

Are you interested in learning how custom recognition jewelry can help you retain members, increase volunteer motivation, and keep your members constantly mindful of their shared organizational identity? Here are a few case studies You may find interesting.

Case Studies

  • UAW Local 412 Member Ring & Order Site

    How We Helped Create a Custom, Stream-Lined Website for UAW Local 412

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  • America's Bravest Firefighters Jewelry Collection

    The Story of Our Popular “America’s Bravest” Program

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  • City of Baltimore Chamber of Commerce Cufflinks

    How the City of Baltimore’s Logo Became So Much More

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Let us help you design the perfect solution (and styles!) to recognize your members, and keep them motivated, engaged, and feeling appreciated.

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Volunteer Service Award

Corporate Anniversaries

Custom Gifts and Commemoratives

Whether your company is celebrating its 5th year in business or its 50th, reaching a milestone corporate anniversary is a major achievement in today’s business environment.  Not only are anniversaries an opportunity to acknowledge one’s legacy, but perhaps even more importantly, to set the tone for continues future success.

Custom logoed jewelry fits right in.  Often companies create a special logo just for this special time and this logo can be memorialized in lapel pins or key tags for employees or into custom jewelry gift sets for board members, senior management or important clients.

Call Dion today to get started on your corporate milestone project.  We can design gifts and commemoratives that will be remembered and cherished even after the year is over.


Case Study

  • Mary Kay 45 th Anniversary

    How We Combined the Past and Present for the Mary-Kay Inc. 45th Anniversary Pin

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  • Creative Memories 20 th Anniversary

    The Whole Package: Creative Memories’ Custom Pin and Card Design

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Corporate Citizenship

We Care About Our Customers, Community, and Supply Chain

Roland Dion has a passion for manufacturing excellence and training his teams.

Our Commitments

  • Lead Compliance: E.A. Dion’s products are 100% compliant with Proposition 65 jewelry requirements, as well as with the CPSIA Improvement Act. Dion diligently monitors proposed legislation affecting the jewelry industry to ensure that we will meet or exceed compliance levels.

  • Lean Manufacturing: Lean is a manufacturing philosophy dedicated to the elimination of waste throughout the production process through continuous improvement.

  • Conflict & Conflict-Free Diamonds: E. A. Dion deals only with countries and suppliers actively complying with the standards of the United Nations Kimberley Process, which regulates the importing/exporting of government validated diamonds from sources free of conflict. Dion also sources Conflict-Free Diamonds which expands on the United Nations' definition of conflict diamonds (read our Conflict-Free Diamonds commitment here).

  • Social Accountability Statement: This is a statement of our business practices, which are consistent with Dion’s corporate values (read our Social Accountability Statement here).

  • Memorandum of Understanding: This is a vendor partner agreement requiring our vendors to conform to standards of business practices which are consistent with Dion’s corporate values (read our entire Vendor MOU here).

  • Conflict Mineral Policy Statement: This statement confirms E.A. Dion's commitment to sourcing components and materials from companies that share our values regarding respect for human rights, ethics and environmental responsibility (Read our Conflict Mineral Policy Statement here).

Our Values

As a continually growing company and a leader in our field, we have the responsibility to exemplify integrity when making our products.

Our corporate citizenship efforts directly support our vision, mission, and values:

  • Vision: Make the intangible tangible, and improving people’s lives through recognition

  • Mission: To work together utilizing our combined unique talents through daily continuous improvement

  • Values: Customer focus, operational excellence and being a great place to work.

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Environmental Statement

E. A. Dion is committed to protecting our environment and minimizing the environmental impact of business operations on the environment.

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What's Important to You?

If we have not mentioned anything in our corporate values statement that you think we should be thinking about, let us know! We are always looking for ways to be a better company.

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