NSW 2009 Safe Work Awards

A total of 47 finalists at the 2009 NSW SafeWork Awards were recognised for their exceptional safety innovations and improvements, with six winners being presented with their awards by NSW Finance Minister Joe Tripodi.

The awards attracted 119 entries, highlighting the statewide recognition of the importance of workplace safety. All entries demonstrated a collective commitment from businesses, ensuring that NSW workplaces are among the safest in the world.

Award winners were:

• Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System:
  • Winner: Transfield Services for developing an audit process to manage and improve safety across a force of 35 subcontractors at Port Kembla steelworks.
  • Highly Commended: Shoalhaven City Council and One Steel.
• Best Solution to an identified Workplace Health and Safety Issue:
  • Winner: Rotacaster Wheel, for its multi-directional hand truck for handling heavy or awkward loads.
  • Highly Commended: MidCoast County Council, Citigate Central Hotel and Bucyrus Australia Underground.
• Best Workplace Health and Safety Practices in a Small Business:
  • Winner: Pride Investment Holdings for developing its ‘Take Pride in Workplace Safety’ OHS system.
  • Highly Commended: Eminent Waste.
• Best Individual Contributions to Workplace Health and Safety:
  • Winner ‘No formal OHS responsibility’: Alan Burman, Country Energy.
  • Winner ‘Formal OHS Responsibility’: Nardia Zelukovic, Orange Precision Metalcraft.
• WorkCover’s Leadership Safety Award:
  • Winner: Motor Traders' Association for its education and safety programs, projects and partnerships.

Winners will be entered into the national Safe Work Australia Awards, to be presented in Canberra in 2010.