{"id":12,"date":"2024-08-20T01:59:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heatstress.techconnect.org\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2024-09-30T20:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T20:36:04","slug":"guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/heatstress.techconnect.org\/index.php\/guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To participate in the Safety Innovation Challenge, please submit a response via the online response form prior to the submission deadline of Nov. 1, 2024 by 8 p.m. ET. Responses must include only non-confidential, non-proprietary content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On behalf of the National Safety Council (NSC), TechConnect will invite up to ten (10) top-ranked respondents to attend the&nbsp;Future of EHS Conference&nbsp;held in St Louis, Missouri from Feb. 18-20, 2025. At the event, finalists will showcase their technologies in the Technology Pavilion and pitch their solutions to attendees made up of business leaders, senior EHS professionals, researchers and innovators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the group of finalists, a winner will be selected. All finalists will be featured on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsc.org\/techhub\/home\">TechHub Marketplace<\/a> insights page, the NSC directory of safety technology solutions, with the winner receiving a complimentary one-year TechHub subscription. Finalists may also partner with NSC on webinars, technical papers or other collaborations to further its safety mission and may be considered for pilot-scale funding directly from NSC to help advance the development and deployment of the technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Evaluation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>NSC and TechConnect will evaluate all eligible submissions on the following criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Approach and technical merit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Potential impact on heat stress<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Development plan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Team<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Innovation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Technical maturity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We encourage all respondents to prepare a response highlighting the most compelling and informative aspects of their technology and business. Responses that provide an engaging narrative about the technology, its potential for positive impact, and a viable pathway to commercial deployment and usage will likely be well-received by the evaluation panel. Responses that provide an engaging narrative about the technology, its potential for positive impact, and a viable pathway to commercial deployment and usage will likely be well-received by the evaluation panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To participate in the Safety Innovation Challenge, please submit a response via the online response&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatstress.techconnect.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatstress.techconnect.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatstress.techconnect.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatstress.techconnect.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatstress.techconnect.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/heatstress.techconnect.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/heatstress.techconnect.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatstress.techconnect.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}