Nominations open for Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards

  • Nominations open for 2024 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards
  • Opportunity for Western Australian businesses to have workplace health and safety initiatives publicly recognised
  • Nominations to close on May 31

Nominations are now open for the prestigious 2024 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards, rewarding and celebrating health and safety initiatives across Western Australian workplaces.

This year’s Award categories are:

  • Work health and safety invention of the year;
  • Best solution to a work health and safety risk;
  • Best intervention to address a psychosocial hazard in the workplace;
  • Leadership excellence; and
  • Health and safety representative of the year.

There are two Awards in each category one for small business (199 employees or less) and one for large business (200 employees or more) to ensure all sizes of business have an equal opportunity to win an Award.

Further information on the Award categories, entry requirements, and assessment criteria is available on the WorkSafe website: www.demirs.wa.gov.au/safetyawards.

Nominations close on May 31, and the winners will be announced at an Awards ceremony in October during Safe Work Month.

As stated by Industrial Relations Minister Simone McGurk:

“These Awards recognise outstanding solutions and innovations in health and safety across all Western Australian workplaces.

“This is a terrific opportunity for local businesses to show off their workplace health and safety initiatives and to receive some well-deserved recognition.

“I encourage companies and individuals to consider nominating for the Awards and take advantage of this great promotional opportunity.”

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