NZ Workplace Health & Safety Awards: finalists announced
NZ Workplace Health & Safety Awards: finalists announced
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, 22 April 2016
The finalists in the New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards for 2016 have been decided. The winners in each of the categories, and an overall winner, will be announced at a gala dinner at SKYCITY Convention Centre in Auckland on 25 May.
A lifetime achievement award will be presented to former union leader Helen Kelly.
The awards are organised by Thomson Reuters, publisher of Safeguard magazine, and proudly supported by WorkSafe New Zealand. The awards dinner coincides with the annual Safeguard National Health and Safety Conference.
Since their inception in
2005 the awards have become established as an annual
highlight for everyone involved in the prevention of work
injury and ill-health.
Safeguard editor Peter Bateman
says the nearly 140 entries received this year were from
organisations of all sizes and kinds, from businesses
employing a handful of people to the giants of the corporate
sector.
“Despite these differences, what most entries had in common was a desire to go beyond simple compliance with the law – not only because preventing injuries and illness is morally the right thing to do, but because it opens up opportunities to improve culture and processes at all levels.”
The category finalists, in alphabetic order within category, are:
Kensington Swan best
initiative to address a safety risk
• Amcor
Flexibles (NZ)
• Farra Engineering
• Fulton
Hogan
WorkSafe New Zealand best initiative to
address a health
risk
• Fonterra
• Fonterra Brands New
Zealand
• Genesis Energy
Vitae best
initiative to improve employee
wellbeing
• Alcohol and Other Drug
Construction Project
• Canterbury District Health
Board
• Fonterra
NZ Safety best initiative to
encourage engagement in health and
safety
• Frucor Beverages
• Fulton Hogan
John Holland Joint Venture
• Hawkes Bay Regional
Council
SICK best use of New Zealand design or
technology to manage a risk to health &
safety
• Fulton Hogan
• Invert
Robotics
• Prestige Ltd
Site Safe best health
and safety initiative by a small
business
• AGL Scaffolding &
Rigging
• Men at Work
• OB Group Farms (Regent
Park Farm)
Impac best significant health and
safety initiative by a large
organisation
• Fulton
Hogan
• Northpower
• Transdev
Auckland
ACC best leadership of an industry
sector
• EEA (Electricity Engineers’
Association)
• M2PP Alliance
• NZ Transport
Agency
NZISM health & safety practitioner of the
year
• Martin McMullan, NZ Transport
Agency
• Richard Dunn, CHEP New Zealand
• Rebecca
Bell, Airways
edenfx HSE Recruitment most
influential employee
• Ian Dixon,
KiwiRail
• Laurie Collins, Lyttelton Port
Company
• Uta Asovale, Waste
Management
Business Leaders’ Health & Safety
Forum executive of the year
• Graham Darlow,
Fletcher Building
• Jules Fulton, Fulton
Hogan
• Mike O’Brien, CHEP New
Zealand
Countdown Lifetime Achievement
Award
• Helen Kelly
Fonterra Special
Commendation Award
• Two special commendation
awards have been made by the judging panel. They will be
announced at the gala
dinner
ENDS