Submissions for the 2024 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards are now closed.
This year a record 89 submissions were received with 41 companies/or individuals recognised as finalists.
These awards recognise outstanding solutions and innovations to specific workplace health and safety problems in Western Australia.
The Department congratulates the finalists and thanks all entrants. We look forward to announcing the winners at the 2024 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards ceremony on the morning of Thursday, 31 October at Optus Stadium.
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Work health and safety invention of the year
Finalists
- Barefoot Creative Collective Pty Ltd – Star picket cap project
- FlashHatz – Safety helmets
- GTE Group – AuditSense
- LIFTr Pty Ltd – Magni by LIFTr 16.10U
- Taz Drone Solutions – Prism tripod dropping drone
Finalists
- Austal Ships – Innovations in the application of vessel floor coverings
- Breight Group – Scaffold isolation fitting for Fortescue Metals Group
- Cape Dunstans – Clip Gun Extension Handle for the Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) project
- Goldstar Transport Group Pty Ltd – Special purpose dual deck trailer
- Schlam Payload Industries – Tray stand trolley
- Trac Skirt International – Trac Skirt
Best solution to a work health and safety risk
Finalists
- BGIS Pty Ltd (Perth Stadium account) – AFL behind goal nets
- Dredge Robotics (a division of Fremantle Commercial Diving Pty Ltd) – Safer alternative to water asset maintenance
- Eurospares Depot Pty Ltd – Electric secondary park brake (70 Series LandCruiser)
- PSM Upstream Solutions – Engineered structural preservation crates
- Support Vehicles Australia – Off highway tank body pins and clamps
Finalists
- Beam Mobility – BeamSafe thermographic monitoring system for lithium-ion battery charging racks
- Bethanie – ember @ risk project
- Monadelphous – Mining and Minerals North West
- Rio Tinto and Department of Fire and Emergency Services – Pilbara X annual learning symposium and emergency response exercises
- St John Western Australia – Stryker Power PRO stretcher rollout
- WA Country Health Service – CCTV security operations centre
- Western Power – Live work justification tool
- Western Power – Enhancing safety in hazardous high voltage environments through 3D visualisation technology
Best intervention to address a psychosocial hazard in the workplace
- Anglicare WA – well @ work
- Australian Resources and Energy Employer Association (AREEA) – Resources and energy industry mental health maturity assessment tool
- Bethesda Health Care – Staff wellness program
- Legal Aid WA – Check in guide
- Rio Tinto – Improving leadership practices by enhancing supportive leadership capability
- Talison Lithium – Apprentice and trainee program
Leadership excellence award
Finalists
- Before You Dig Australia (BYDA) – Digital safety innovation
- B Strata – Work health and safety in strata
- Shire of Ashburton – LEADing by example: creating a sustainable health and safe workplace for today and tomorrow
Finalists
- City of Stirling Volunteer Services – Volunteer work health and safety consultations
- FQM Australia Nickel Pty Ltd – Ravensthorpe
- WA Police Force (Children’s Crossings Unit) – Project Ruth Less
Health and safety representative of the year
- Susan Cresswell – St John of God Mt Lawley Hospital
- Helen Higgins – Roy Hill
- Tiq Rehman – St John WA
- James Walker – WA Country Health Service
- Bree Wiley – Fortescue Metals Group
Further information
For more information, please contact safetyawards@demirs.wa.gov.au or 1300 307 877.