Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards 2023, by WorkSafe
The Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards were held at Optus Stadium on 27 October 2023.
These awards recognise outstanding solutions and innovations to specific workplace health and safety problems in Western Australia.
This year 65 submissions were received with 25 companies recognised as finalists. Seven finalists were recognised with a winner’s trophy and five finalists received a certificate of merit. An outline of all finalists and winners are available in the Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards 2023 Booklet.
The Department would like to congratulate the Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards winners and finalists.
Work health and safety invention of the year
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- Carey Mining Pty Ltd – Sunrise Dam Gold Mine
- Data Station Pty Ltd – Quick response codes
- Hydratune Pty Ltd – SafeAdjust
- Rigsafe Lifting Solutions – Americold High Bay Cold Storage Facility
- Wallis Drilling Pty Ltd – Aircore automated rod handling system
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- Wallis Drilling Pty Ltd - Aircore automated rod handling system
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- Rigsafe Lifting Solutions – Americold High Bay Cold Storage Facility
Best solution to a work health and safety risk – 199 employees or less
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- Co Connect App – Camp Connect Workforce app
- Epigroup – Alter Ergo
- Monford Group – Solar farm project
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Best solution to a work health and safety risk – 200 employees or more
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- City of Canning – LBin tail lift platform at the Resource and Recovery Waste Transfer Station
- Edith Cowan University – Immersive Violence and Aggression De-escalation Experience (IVADE)
- Mineral Resources – Health clinic
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- City of Canning – LBin tail lift platform at the Resource and Recovery Waste Transfer Station
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- Edith Cowan University – Immersive Violence and Aggression De-escalation Experience (IVADE)
Best intervention to address a psychosocial hazard in the workplace
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- East Metropolitan Health Service, WA Health, Royal Perth Bentley Group, RPH Emergency Department – MAKESpace
- FIFO Focus – Psychosocial Risk Management Capability Enhancement Program
- Town of Port Hedland – Reducing the impact of anti-social behaviours and psychosocial related hazards to staff and the public
- Water Corporation – Mental Health Champions
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- Town of Port Hedland – Reducing the impact of anti-social behaviours and psychosocial related hazards to staff and the public
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- East Metropolitan Health Service, WA Health, Royal Perth Bentley Group, RPH Emergency Department – MAKESpace
Leadership excellence award - 199 employees or less
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- Macco Feeds – Implementing work health and safety
- Pirkx Australia – Pirkx meaningful support in the workplace
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- Macco Feeds – Implementing work health and safety
Leadership excellence award - 200 employees or more
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- Curtin University – Leadership health and wellbeing project
- East Metropolitan Health Service, WA Health, Armadale Kalamunda Group – EMHS Wellbeing Support Program, Armadale Health Service Emergency Department
- EDL Energy – Safety Leadership Working Group as a force for real change at Maitland LNG
- Good Sammy Enterprises – Safety management
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- Good Sammy Enterprises – Safety management
Health and safety representative of the year
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- Ceinwyn Kent and Scott Turner – Armadale Health Service Emergency Department
- Dana Steddy, Jen Byrne, Tina Tuira-Waldon, Sharon Ruakere – Department of Justice, Banksia Hill Detention Centre
- Robert Nankivell – BHP Newman West Operations
- Rob Curtis – St John Western Australia
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- Rob Curtis – St John Western Australia
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Joint entry -
- Scott Turner Armadale Health Service Emergency Department
- Ceinwyn Kent Armadale Health Service Emergency Department
Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards booklet
The Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards booklet provides an outline of all the finalists and winners
Download the awards booklet
