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2024 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards winners and finalists
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Business / companyEmployee / workerEmployerGovernment sector employersSmall business and farmerHealth and safety representativePerson Conducting a Business or UndertakingThe Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards' ceremony was held at Optus Stadium on 31 October 2024.
These awards recognise outstanding solutions and innovations to specific workplace health and safety problems in Western Australia.
This year, a record 89 submissions were received with 41 companies/ or individuals recognised as finalists. Nine of these finalists were awarded with a winner’s trophy and three finalists received a certificate of merit. An outline of all finalists is available in the Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards 2024 booklet.
The department would like to congratulate the winners, those that received certificates of merit, and all finalists.
Work health and safety invention of the year – 199 employees or less
Winner
- Taz Drone Solutions – Prism tripod dropping drone
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
Work health and safety invention of the year – 200 employees or more
Winner
- Schlam Payload Industries – Tray stand trolley
Certificate of merit recipient
- Trac Skirt International – Trac Skirt
Finalists
- Austal Ships – Innovations in the application of vessel floor coverings
- Breight Group – Kelly clip
- Cape Dunstans – Clip gun extension handle for the Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO)
- 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 – 199 employees or less
Winner
- PSM Upstream Solutions – Engineered structural preservation crates
Certificate of merit recipient
- Support Vehicles Australia – Off highway tank body pins and clamps
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
Best solution to a work health and safety risk – 200 employees or more
Winner
- St John Western Australia – Stryker Power PRO stretcher rollout
Certificate of merit recipient
- Bethanie – ember @ risk project
Finalists
- Beam Mobility – BeamSafe thermographic monitoring system for lithium-ion battery charging racks
- Bethanie – ember @ risk project
- Monadelphous – Frame-Flexer
- 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
Winner
- Anglicare WA – well @ work
Finalists
- 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 – 199 employees or less
Winner
- Shire of Ashburton – LEADing by example: creating a sustainable healthy and safe workplace for today and tomorrow
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 healthy and safe workplace for today and tomorrow
Leadership excellence award – 200 employees or more
Winners
- City of Stirling Volunteer Services – Volunteer work health and safety consultations
- WA Police Force (Children’s Crossings Unit) – Project Ruth Less
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
Winner
- James Walker – WA Country Health Service
Finalists
- 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
Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards booklet
The booklet provides an outline of all the finalists and their submissions.
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