Focus Recognized as one of Alberta's Best Safety Performers
August 8, 2006

EDMONTON, ALBERTA-Focus has been selected for the Work Safe Alberta 2005 Best Safety Performer Awards.

This prestigious achievement was awarded to Focus for exceptional performance in workplace health and safety throughout the province of Alberta during 2005. Of Alberta's 128,000 employers, only 350 earn the Work Safe Alberta 2005 Award. To be eligible for the award, companies must meet the following criteria:

• Current Alberta WCB account.
• Current Certificate of Recognition.
• A lost time claim rate (LTC) less than 2.0 LTCs per 100 person years, a LTC rate 40% better than your industry's LTC rate, no LTCs in the most recent 120 consecutive person years of employment and no more than one additional LTC per each additional 120 person years.
• No workplace related fatalities in the previous three years.
• No outstanding compliance orders under the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act and no current prosecution for a violation.

"This award is a direct result of the commitment all of our employees have towards workplace safety, particularly our 150 field crews who work in the Alberta oil and gas industry," explains Dave Grywul, Focus Corporate Safety Facilitator. "To be recognized as a Work Safe Alberta winner in 2005 and 2004 confirms the safety culture that our staff have built over the past several years."

HCS Focus, a wholly owned Focus subsidiary, was also selected for the Work Safe Alberta 2005 Best Safety Performer Awards. Based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, HCS Focus provides industrial survey services to the booming oil sands industry. HCS Focus was also awarded the Work Safe Alberta Best Safety Performer Award in 2004.

As a result of this achievement, Focus and HCS Focus will be recognized as a 2005 Best Safety Performer in a Alberta Government provincial news release, in the Occupational Health and Safety Magazine and on the department's Workplace Heath and Safety website www.worksafely.org and in Work Safe Alberta ads in select newspapers.

Focus Corporation is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm providing a range of engineering, geomatics, planning and project management services to clients involved in oil and gas, oil sands, infrastructure, land development and environmental projects. Clients rely on Focus to deliver world-class technical solutions that optimize their investments, improve their competitive position and increase their long-term success. Focus employs more than 1000 staff in 18 offices throughout Western Canada.

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