Let me tell you a story about the safety award:
We won the award in the Midwest Regional in '09. We have no idea why. We'd say loud things when there were people in our way, had First Aid kits, and a fire extinguisher: but that should be standard, right? We also did questionably safe things which added to the confusion.
And I'm going to be honest, while we all had question marks over our heads when we connected the puns, it still felt nice to win something.
So you can take this story three ways: pro-safety award (yay winning something), anti-safety award (being handed out to teams that are not especially outstanding), or pointless (neutral opinions bother you).
