The Safety & Health Excellence Awards

Award Criteria

Icon : Inclusivity Award

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. It will be able to demonstrate how it has successfully integrated workers from minority backgrounds, LGBTIQA+ or workers with disabilities.

The entry must relate to steps taken no earlier that 1 January 2023.

Key tips for your entry

1. Keep information simple

Please keep your sentences short and easy to understand. Not all of the judges are technical experts so please don’t assume they will know acronyms or technical lingo. Simply submit your text in language that is clear, precise and simplistically highlights the merits for its submission.

2. Product must be new

We will disqualify any entry that related to a project that began earlier than 1 January 2023 so please ensure that your entry meets this criteria or it will not be accepted. Your entry must relate to steps taken no earlier than 1 January 2023. If it is found your entry relates to steps taken prior to that date you will be disqualified.

3. You do not have to be a client of Western Business Media to be eligible to enter the awards.

4. Provide detail about steps you have taken to show your commitment to being a equal opportunity employer.

The judges need to know details on what steps you have taken to show a focus on inclusivity and please detail the positive impact it has made. Please provide verifiable evidence that the initiative has resulted in significant improvements to inclusivity for integrating workers from minority backgrounds, LGBTIQA+ or workers with disabilities

5. Legal proceedings

If your company has been subject to any prosecution in relation to fire safety law or health and safety law since 1 January 2023, or has been subject to any enforcement notices, then your entry will automatically be disqualified.

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