WorkSafe WA's 2025 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards — finalists

In Western Australia, 42 finalists for WorkSafe WA’s 2025 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards have been announced. In 2025, 138 submissions were received by WorkSafe WA, which makes a more than 50% increase on last year. “These awards recognise outstanding innovations and solutions to specific work health and safety issues in WA, and a wide range of workplaces are represented in this year’s nominees,” Acting WorkSafe WA Commissioner Jennifer Low said.

“The health and safety of all WA workers is a top priority for WorkSafe, and the Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards recognise organisations and individuals that go beyond compliance and make an extra effort to protect workers,” Low added. “I’d like to thank every organisation and individual that submitted — you are all worthy of recognition for your efforts. Congratulations to the finalists, and good luck for the winners’ presentations next month.”

The 42 finalists are across five award categories:

Work health and safety invention of the year

199 employees or less

• Alevro — Pluto train
• Innovative Mining Services — Automated Kelly filter press wash system
• Portman Industries Pty Ltd — BenStop GP20/40 container door brace
• Westralian Diamond Drillers — Mud trailer

200 employees or more

• Austal Ships — Temporary hatches
• South 32 Worsley Alumina — Cage mill lifting jig
• South 32 Worsley Alumina — CSEP satellite box system

Best solution to a work health and safety risk

199 employees or less

• FSC Civils — Safe Assign (Byford Rail Extension)
• Strapsense — Strapsense Buddy
• The Simple Safety Company — Simple Safety app

200 employees or more

• Curtin University — Transforming permit to work into a real-time Z30
• Fenner Conveyors — Dampier Point
• Fortescue — Remote controlled foremost DR24HDi water well drill rig
• Fortescue — Safety Mate
• Rio Tinto — Remote and lone worker risk reduction
• South 32 Worsley Alumina — Brokk refractory removal
• South 32 Worsley Alumina — Integrated overhead protection solutions for refractory maintenance operation
• Toll Transport Pty Ltd — Fire suppression system

Best intervention to address a psychosocial hazard in the workplace

• FSC Civils — Stronger Together program (Byford Rail Extension)
• PCH Civil — Green Shirt Sunday sessions
• Mallard Contracting Pty Ltd — Inclusivity and diversity program
• City of Bayswater — Culture of care: Psychosocial management framework and systems
• IGO Limited — I-GO Well
• Talison Lithium — Wellbeing team initiative
• The Bethanie Group Inc — Reducing workplace violence and aggression in aged care through environmental redesign

Leadership excellence award

199 employees or less

• Christmas Island Phosphates — Connections program
• Deanmore Primary School — We Are Team Deanmore
• FSC Civils — Integrated initiatives (Byford Rail Extension)
• On Tap Services Pty Ltd — Challenging complacency: Embedding safety through leadership, culture, and critical risk control
• Williams Electrical Service Pty Ltd — A vision for future electricians

200 employees or more

• Curtin University — Leading safety through culture and connection
• genU — Leading with safety: Delivering proactive high-impact safety programs
• South 32 Worsley Alumina — ACE Champion
• South 32 Worsley Alumina — Bright Spot program
• South 32 Worsley Alumina — Safety and health representative (SHRep) program
• VenuesWest — Construction in events

Health and safety representative of the year

• Thomas Clifford — South 32
• Michael Eppen — St John WA
• Aaron Green — Westrac
• Aaron Heslewood — South 32
• Dijana Miloseki — City of Stirling
• Josh Singleton — Emerald Resources
   

Winners will be announced on Tuesday, 28 October at the 2025 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards ceremony at Optus Stadium.

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