The State of Missouri Award of Distinction for Safety was awarded to Randall Ipock, Tommy Caudle, Michael Middleton, Gary McLarry and Evan Adrian with the Department of Transportation. This is presented to a team member or team of individuals who create and/or champion approaches to protect and/or ensure the health and safety of state workers or customers (examples include, but are not limited to: implementation of a safety program for the workplace, an active role in being a strong advocate of safety and health, demonstrated significant improvement over previous conditions, consistently maintained a good safety program, or made an extra effort to improve or correct a specific aspect of safety within the workplace).