Australian Workplace Health & Safety Awards 2020 (AWSHA)

We are excited to be able to tell you all (finally) about an incredible initiative that we have been involved in standing up with our partners over the past 12 months, which is currently being announced. It’s the inaugural Australian Workplace Health & Safety Awards which will take place annually in May, starting in May 2020.

The Australian Workplace Health & Safety Awards provide national recognition to organisations and individuals who are demonstrating excellence and innovation in the field of Workplace Health & Safety.
Each year it will alternate between Melbourne, Victoria and Sydney, New South Wales.
The flyer is attached for Melbourne 2020 with further information coming out soon, this is a quick preview of things to come.

Showcase Australian Health & Safety

This is an opportunity to showcase what the profession has been doing as individuals, teams and organisations, it’s the ‘community’ piece that we have been missing. It’s about good work, improvements, innovation, mentorship and contributing to the industry. Our neighbours in NZ (We had this in the pipeline first!) put on an outstanding event earlier this year, in which everybody got together, it has really benefited collaboration across the Health & Safety space in that country. We envisage it doing the same here.

Black-Tie Event

This will be a 250-person black-tie event and the aim is to grow and become an event on the annual social calendar. There will be opportunity for your organisations to sponsor an award you are passionate about and of course everyone can submit a nomination, in a very easy and streamlined application process.

Award Categories

The awards are mixed and varied and after much discussion and input we have settled on the following categories because it allows the opportunity to showcase everyone from junior to exec, regulator to organisation. All of the awards are significant, however some of bigger awards being toward the end of the night; Enterprise H&S Innovation Award, Young H&S Leader of the year, Best Organisation for H&S and then the H&S Individual of the year.

In 2020, the AWHSA will recognise the achievements in Workplace Health & Safety across 12 individual award categories which include;

Enterprise Health & Safety Program Initiative
Inspector Excellence Award
Enterprise Health / Wellbeing Initiative
Enterprise Health & Safety Innovation
Enterprise Return to Work Initiative
Young Health & Safety Leader
Enterprise First Aid Initiative
Enterprise Health & Safety Leadership Award
Emergency First Aid Response Award
Health & Safety Professional Of the Year
Health & Safety Rep of the Year
Harold Greenwood Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award

Peer / Industry Reviewed and Judged

The difference with AWHSA is that the nominations and awards are peer reviewed and judged by executives from the industry.

We look forward to speaking to you more about this in the coming weeks and in the meantime would love to hear any feedback and thoughts you might have.

See AWHSA 2020

Garry Kelly
Zenergy Safety Health & Wellbeing

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