The State of Missouri Award of Distinction for Safety was awarded to Donna Philpot, Project Manager, 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).