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The Award Categories

Please make sure you have properly read the categories and criteria before entering. The criteria is different for each category and you are able to enter multiple categories. You can also enter more than once in each category, provided they are different entries.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: Friday 1 March 2024 at 11:59PM

The Alan McArthur Unsung Hero Award

This category has been launched in memory of Alan McArthur who dedicated more than 20 years to innovating and improving health and safety.

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Best Health & Safety In Manufacturing

This category is designed to recognise a manufacturing premises, which can demonstrate either an exemplary health and safety record or how it has taken significant steps to improve health and safety standards. Entrants must explain how they have ensured the health, safety and wellbeing of anyone who had access to or worked at the premises.

Best Health & Safety Project

This category is designed to recognise a project, which has delivered significant improvement(s) to health, safety or wellbeing of people and/or premises.

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Best Health & Safety Manager Of The Year

This category is designed to recognise a health and safety manager who made a significant contribution to the implementation or enhancement of health, safety or wellbeing standards within either their own or a client organisation.

Campaign of the year

This category is designed to recognise the implementation of a campaign that has led to significant improvements to any of health and safety for persons or premises.

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Health & Safety Team Of The Year

This category is designed to recognise health and safety teams that are making a significant difference in their workplace.

Sustainable Company of the Year

This category is designed to recognise an organisation that has shown a strong focus on corporate sustainability. This can include demonstrating innovation in addressing ESG issues in the own organisation or within their supply chain.

Lifetime Achievement Award

This prestigious award, sponsored by Hunter Safety Group, and chosen by our judging panel of key industry bodies and figure heads, will be awarded to an outstanding individual who has made a tremendous contribution to health and safety during their lifetime.

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Inclusivity Award

This category is designed to recognise a health and safety organisation that can demonstrate it has taken steps to be an equal opportunity employer.

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Rising Star Of The Year Award

This category is designed to recognise an individual who made a significant contribution to the implementation or enhancement of health, safety or wellbeing standards within either their own or a client organisation. They must also have made a significant contribution to the introduction and promotion of standards within the health, safety or wellbeing and not been in post prior to 1 January 2023.

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The Safer Logistics Award

The Safer Logistics Award is a celebration of safety excellence in the logistics and supply chain sectors.

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Woman Of The Year Award

This category is designed to recognise a female health and safety professional who made a significant contribution to the implementation or enhancement of health, safety or wellbeing standards within either their own or a client organisation or a woman working within the health and safety sector who has made a significant contribution to their organisation.

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Marketing Campaign of the Year

This category is designed to recognise the implementation of a marketing campaign that has led to significant improvements to any of health and safety for persons or premises or use of products.

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Distributor of the Year

This category is designed to recognise distributors of health and safety products that have gone above and beyond to ensure great customer service, fulfilment of customer needs and demonstrated great product/market knowledge.

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Best Driver Risk Management Performance

This award has been developed to recognise employers who have proactively demonstrated a consistent and comprehensive approach to the management of their work-related road risk, and in doing so have delivered significant business benefits through the reduction in vehicle related incidents and collisions involving staff who drive for work.

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Best Use of Health and Safety Data to Lower Incident Rates

This award recognises organisations that have endeavoured to collect data linked to risk control systems and health and safety management arrangements with an aim to analyse routine data and better understand the likelihood of future events. They will have shown exceptional understanding of leading indicators and be able to demonstrate how they plan to better understand incidents in order to protect their workforce.

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