WHS Excellence Award winners to be announced during Safe Work Month

Hon Bill Johnston, Minister for Industrial Relations; Mines and Petroleum will announce this year’s winners of the Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards on 28 October 2022.

WorkSafe Commissioner Darren Kavanagh said the Awards recognise outstanding solutions and innovations in health and safety across all workplaces.

“These awards are a terrific opportunity for WA businesses of all sizes to show off their workplace safety initiatives and to receive some well-deserved recognition,” Mr Kavanagh said. As part of the McGowan Government’s commitment to addressing mental health in the workplace, a new category was announced in March.

The award – for best intervention to address a psychosocial hazard in the workplace – will recognise an organisation’s successful commitment to the prevention of psychosocial hazards. The awards feature five categories covering small to medium organisations, and large organisations and recognise:

• Work health and safety invention of the year – the development of plant/equipment engineering and/or infrastructure to enhance health and safety • Best solution to a work health and safety risk – innovation, implementation and/or design of systems or procedures developed to improve health and safety • Best intervention to address a psychosocial hazard in the workplace – an organisation’s successful commitment to the prevention of psychosocial hazards • Leadership excellence award – an organisation’s excellence in leadership in improving health and safety in the workplace • Health and safety representative of the year – an elected health and safety representative who has made a significant contribution and demonstrable difference to health and safety in their workplace.

Finalists will be announced in August, with the winners being announced at the awards ceremony during Safe Work Month in October.