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Workplace Health and Safety Awards

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The UOW Workplace Health and Safety Awards aim to raise awareness of occupational health and safety requirements and encourage, recognise and celebrate staff making significant contributions to improve safety performance at the University of Wollongong. The awards will be presented at a ceremony which will occur during Safe Work Australia Week.

Successful nominations may be submitted to WorkCover NSW for further recognition in the WorkCover NSW Safe Work Awards.

AWARD CATEGORIES

Workplace Health and Safety awards are available in the following categories:

1.       Best Solution for a Workplace Hazard – Individual or Team Award

This award recognises excellence in developing and implementing a solution to an identified health and safety issue.  Entries may include a product or process based solution, engineering innovation, a training program, an awareness raising activity or other risk control measures that reduce the risk of work-related injury and illness. 

2.       Best Team Contribution to Improving Health and Safety - Team Award

This award recognises the establishment, improvement and/or maintenance of OHS practices by a team or group including research teams, units, working parties, focus groups or a team formed within or by workplace advisory committees. Up to 6 people will be considered for a team nomination.

3.       Safety Leadership award - Individual award

This award recognises initiatives to establish improve, inspire and maintain best practice in health and safety by an employee, supervisor, head or manager.

NOMINATIONS

An email inviting nominations will be sent to all staff, members of the OHS Committee and WAC Chairs two months before Safe Work Australia Week. Nominations may be submitted at any time and will close four weeks before the presentation which will be held during Safe Work Australia week in October each year. Nominations will be accepted at any time up to the closing date.

Nominations must be submitted using the Workplace Health and Safety Awards Nomination form. Supervisors or Heads of Units must approve the nomination with endorsement by the relevant Dean or Director.

More information on the Workplace Health and Safety awards is available in the guidelines.

• Workplace Health and Safety Awards Guidelines
• Workplace Health and Safety Awards Nomination form [pdf] [doc]

Applications must be received by the Closing date: 30^th September.

AWARD

Recipients will receive an inscribed certificate as well as a monetary prize comparable to the Vice-Chancellors award for Outstanding Service.

AWARD RECIPIENTS

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Category 1. Best Solution for a Workplace Hazard

Travis Naylor

Chemistry

For the development of a training package for the safe use and handling of liquid nitrogen, championing correct manual handling techniques for field equipment and the design of a a safe gas fill station for filling gas canisters in the field.

Category 2. Best Team Contribution to improving Health & Safety

School of Health Sciences 

For developing online OHS inductions lead by Mandy Reid, Technical officer.

Category 3. Safety Leadership award

Sasha Nikolic

School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering (SECTE)

For leading structural change of School OHS Committee, integration of OHS into the schools core subjects, development of a school compulsory online OHS course, rectify OHS non compliance and provision of education.

Highly Commended

• Category 1: Accommodation Services team reducing use of gas cylinders lead by Brent Michell, Maintenance.
  
• Category 2: B&G Construction team lead by Bob Slater
  
• Category 3: Sandra Chapman, Professional Officer in the School of Chemistry.

 Need more information? Please call the OH&S Unit on extension 3931.