08:12 pm, Wednesday 24 April, 2013

The 21^st annual National Safety Awards of Excellence are open for nominations and the NSCA (National Safety Council of Australia) is encouraging all ‘safety heroes’ to enter and gain recognition for leadership, best practice initiatives and innovations around safety.

The National Safety Awards of Excellence are Australia’s premium safety recognition and they celebrate the ‘outstanding achievements of organisations and people who champion work health and safety as a cornerstone of elite business performance.’

The categories in the National Safety Awards of Excellence this year are:

- Best Continuous Improvement of a WHS Management System

- Best Solution of a WHS Risk

- Best WHS Training Program

- Best Communication of a Safety Message

- NEW Ian Chisholm Award for the Best Individual WHS Achievement

- NEW Best Safety Leadership Program / Initiative

- Best Health and Wellbeing Program

All winners will be able to share their successes with Australia in the NSCA National Safety Magazine and broader media releases and have exclusive access to the Finalist and Winner logos for professional communications.

Entry is now open for the NSCA / GIO National Safety Awards of Excellence, and will close on Sunday 30 June 2013.  For further information, or to obtain the nomination guide, visit www.nationalsafetyawards.com.au, email natsafe@nsca.org.au or phone 02 9213 6211.

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12:45 pm, Tuesday 30 October, 2012

Winners of the 2012 National Safety Awards of Excellence were announced in a ceremony held this month at Doltone House in Sydney.

This year’s awards saw the introduction of a new category – Best Workplace Health and Wellbeing Program. With 140 submissions this year, the National Safety Awards of Excellence honours the dedication and hard work of safety heroes within organisations that have achieved excellence in their respective field of work.

“The record number of submissions this year is a true statement to Australian organisations pushing the boundaries of standard WHS&E regulations by ensuring all workers return home safely each day and that Australian levels of safety are seen as a goal for the rest of the world,” says NSCA CEO, Adam Baldock.

2012 National Safety Awards of Excellence Winners:

2012 NSCA Member of the Year, sponsored by Pro-Visual Publishing

Brookfield Multiplex Construction Pty Ltd

Best Implementation of an OHS Management System, sponsored by Lend Lease

Ten Group (The Energy Network)

Best Solution of an OHS Workplace Risk, sponsored by Rio Tinto

Small Business category: StaminaLift International Limited

Medium to Large Business category: Sinclair Knight Merz & Balfour Beatty UGL and New Future Alliance

Best OHS Training Program, sponsored by Safe Work Australia

YMCA Victoria

Best Environmentally Sustainable Work Practice or Solution, sponsored by Queensland Rail

Sunstate Cement

Business Excellence through OHS&E Management, sponsored by ExxonMobil

Decmil Australia

Best Workplace Health & Wellbeing Program, sponsored by BMA

MATES in Construction

The event was hosted by former Australian Olympian, Kerri Pottharst. Keynote address was given by Kate Carnell AO, CEO of beyondblue.

For more information about the Award, visit the NSCA website.

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07:39 pm, Wednesday 5 September, 2012

SafetyCulture Engineers Alan Stephensen and Dylan Mathiesen working on the architecture o fiAuditor

We are proud to announce that SafetyCulture has been selected as a finalist at the National Safety Awards of Excellence 2012 for the development of the iAuditor Application in the “Best Solution of an OHS Workplace Risk”.

We have been amazed at how well our iAuditor Application has been received by the users, the people on the frontline at the worksites, and to now acknowledgement from the premier safety organisation in Australia as well means to us that we must be on the right track.

What is the iAuditor Application?

The iAuditor application,  was released in February this year.

The purpose behind this application was to somehow reduce the amount of time it takes for a workplace to conduct safety audits, inspections and create checklists, and to make it easy to not only complete but to share within organisations easily.

Some of the industries that are currently use iAuditor include aviation, education, food, accommodation, construction and medical and more.

SafetyCulture Managing Director, Luke Anear says, “It has been very exciting to see industry embrace the collaborative model and share information to work smarter. There have been over 250,000 safety templates downloaded from the cloud that we built, and that means many workers are working together to use what others have created and then improving on it for their own use.  Every day we are contacted by companies all over the world who have significantly improved their work flow and found efficiencies with their compliance checks and safety audits. We have some exciting new releases coming up that will expand on the iAuditor model over the coming months.”

This is the 20^th year that the Awards have been presented and they are considered Australia’s prestigious safety awards program. With a history of celebrating businesses and people and acknowledging that OHS is vital in successful business performance.

SafetyCulture’s philosophy is that every worker in the world has the right to a safe work place

and by embracing the digital age we are seeking to deliver this for as little cost as possible.

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05:11 pm, Thursday 12 April, 2012

The National Safety Council of Australia is accepting nominations for the National Safety Awards of Excellence 2012. Now on its 20^th year, NSCA’s safety awards program aims to recognise people and organisations which advocate OHS&E as a cornerstone of elite business performance.

The awards are open to all Australian operating business, organisation, alliance or individual in the public or private sector, with an established workplace health and safety or environment initiative that complies with one of the seven categories:

• Best Implementation of an OHS Management System
• Best solution of an OHS Workplace Risk
• Best OHS Training Program
• Best Communication of a Safety Message
• Excellence in Environmentally Sustainable Work Practices or Solutions
• Business Excellence through OHS&E Management
• Best Workplace Health  & Wellbeing Program

A formal judging process will take place, where organisations that have achieved excellence in their field of work through the introduction, development or improvement of health, safety and environment standards will be recognised. A formal recognition will be given at the 20^th National Safety Awards presentation lunch on 11 October 2012 in Sydney.

Nominations for the 2012 National Safety Awards will close on 29 June 2012. More information can be found at NSCA website.

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