The 2023 winners and finalists are from locations across South-East Queensland including Townsville, St George, Mackay, Western Australia and Victoria (with Queensland initiatives), and represent a diverse range of industries and sectors.
Congratulations to the 2023 winners and finalists!
Category one – Best solution to an identified work health and safety issue
This award recognises excellence in developing and implementing a solution to an identified work health and safety issue.
- Winner: Hyne Timber
Category two – Best individual contribution to work health and safety
This award recognises individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to work health and safety.
- No finalists in this category.
Category three – Best solution to an identified electrical safety issue
This award recognises excellence in developing and implementing a solution to an identified workplace electrical safety issue.
Category four – Most significant improvement to work health and safety performance
This award recognises an organisation that has made a significant improvement to its work health and safety performance.
Category five – Best commitment to work health and wellbeing
This award recognises an organisation that embeds work health and wellbeing into organisational systems and culture to benefit the health of workers and prevent chronic disease risks in the workplace.
Category six – Best demonstrated healthy and safe work design
This award recognises excellence in healthy and safe work design. The design of a workplace is fundamental to providing a healthy and safe work environment.
- Winner: Monadelphous (with Incitec Pivot Limited)
- CC Group (with Beavis & Bartels Group and Master Plumbers Association of Queensland)
Category seven – Injured worker achievement award
This award recognises an individual's successful rehabilitation and stay at/return to work following a work related injury.
Category eight – Best rehabilitation and return to work management system
This award recognises an employer's outstanding efforts and continuous improvement of rehabilitation and return to work by implementing an effective injury management system.
Category nine – Best individual contribution to rehabilitation and return to work
This award recognises an individual's outstanding efforts in rehabilitation and stay at/return to work, and the improving workplace rehabilitation culture.
- Winner: Lynne Brown, Queensland Police Service
- Anita Bevis, WorkCover Queensland
- Anissa Rigby, Work Rehab
- Dominic Chalk, Endeavour Group
Category ten - Best demonstrated leadership in work health and safety and return to work systems
This award recognises outstanding leadership in work health and safety (WHS) and rehabilitation and return to work (RRTW) systems and practices, implemented by an individual or organisation.