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The New Zealand
Workplace Health &
Safety Awards 2017
ENTRY PACK
2017
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ABOUT THE AWARDS
BACKGROUND
• The NZ Workplace Health & Safety Awards have been run each year since 2005.
• They are New Zealand’s only nationwide all-sector health and safety awards.
• They are easy to enter, and entry is free.
• T
hey are run by Safeguard magazine (published by Thomson Reuters),
with the active support of WorkSafe New Zealand.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE WHEN ARE THE
OF THE AWARDS? WINNERS ANNOUNCED?
To celebrate the best health and safety initiatives and the The awards will be presented at a gala dinner on
dedicated people working to improve health and safety May 31, 2017 at SKYCITY Convention Centre in
outcomes in New Zealand. Auckland, the social highlight of the year for everyone
involved in health and safety. The gala dinner coincides
with the two-day Safeguard National Health and
WHO JUDGES THE AWARDS? Safety Conference.
The Awards are judged by a panel appointed each year. Finalists receive a complimentary ticket to the dinner.
The panel includes representatives from Safeguard,
WorkSafe New Zealand, ACC and a union. It also includes
an experienced health and safety practitioner.
HOW MANY CATEGORIES
ARE THERE? KEY DATES:
There are 9 categories for organisations and 4 ENTRIES OPEN............................24 January 2017
categories for individuals. ENTRIES CLOSE...........................3 April 2017
Details of each category appear on page 6.
FINALISTS NOTIFIED..................21 April 2017
GALA DINNER..............................31 May 2017
WHO CAN ENTER?
Any organisation which operates in New Zealand.
Any person who works in New Zealand.
An organisation can submit multiple entries, so long
as each entry describes a substantially different health
and safety initiative. Page 2
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WHY ENTER?
OPPORTUNITY FOR REFLECTION ENGAGEMENT
The act of writing and submitting an entry is an Finalists and winners have the opportunity to
opportunity to pause, put day-to-day matters to one side, acknowledge and reward the efforts of the teams and
and reflect on what has worked well over the last year individuals involved, which is an opportunity to reinforce
or so, and the lessons learned. This process of critical key messages to staff and suppliers around health and
analysis is valuable in evaluating your strengths (and safety engagement.
ongoing challenges) in health and safety.
PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF GOOD WORK NETWORKING AND LEARNING
The successful initiatives or personal qualities of all Finalist or not, the gala dinner provides great learning
finalists are acknowledged publicly at the gala dinner in and networking opportunities for people at all levels,
front of a large audience of influential experts, executives including directors.
and politicians. Further acknowledgement occurs as part
of a post-awards media campaign.
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HOW TO ENTER
HOW SHOULD I WRITE AN ENTRY I’M NOT SURE WHICH CATEGORY
FOR ONE OF THE ORGANISATIONAL TO ENTER. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
CATEGORIES? Pick the category you think best fits your initiative, but
We suggest you answer the following questions: don’t worry about getting it wrong – the judges reserve
• What does the organisation do? the right to move your entry to a different category.
(eg: industry sector, size, key activities)
• What specific issue or problem did you face?
(include the risks involved) WHAT IS THE ENTRY PROCESS?
• What solution did you come up with to solve the Entrants are encouraged to submit their entries
problem? in PDF format via email to:
• When did you start work on this initiative? safeguardawards@thomsonreuters.com
• What evidence is there that your initiative has Each entry requires two documents:
been successful? • A completed entry form (downloadable)
• The entry itself
HOW SHOULD I WRITE AN ENTRY FOR If you have essential supporting evidence which cannot be
ONE OF THE INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES? sent via PDF (eg: video or physical objects closely related
to the entry) then please send via courier to:
We suggest you answer the following questions about
Safeguard Awards
the person you nominate:
Level 1, 16 College Hill
• How do you know the nominee?
Freemans Bay
• What does the nominee’s organisation do?
Auckland
(eg: industry sector, size, key activities)
• What is the nominee’s role? Or via post to:
• Why have you nominated this person? Safeguard Awards
(ie: how has he or she made a difference, gone the PO Box 147245
extra mile, demonstrated leadership, inspired others) Auckland 1144
HOW LONG SHOULD AN ENTRY BE? ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS?
Most entries should be able to be described in no more Please contact us via email:
than three or four A4 pages. safeguardawards@thomsonreuters.com
Or by phone to Annette Vao, ph 09 361 8925.
CAN I ENTER MORE THAN ONE
INITIATIVE OR NOMINATE MORE
THAN ONE PERSON? ENTRIES CLOSE
Yes, so long as you submit a new entry for each one. 5pm, April 3 2017
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IN ASSOCIATION WITHJUDGING
The judges will consider the following factors. ABOUT THE JUDGING
They do not expect every factor to apply to each entry,
so do not worry if some factors do not apply to your • The judges assess each entry using the above criteria.
initiative or nominee. • They reserve the right to move an entry to
a different category.
• They accept each entry on good faith as a fair and
FOR THE ORGANISATIONAL accurate description. However they have the ability
CATEGORIES: to contact the entry’s nominated referee to seek
A. Credible detail (is the initiative sufficiently clarification.
well described?) • The judges’ deliberations are confidential.
B. Risk reduction (to what extent has people’s No correspondence will be entered into.
health or safety benefited?)
C. Innovation (how clever/original is this?) HOW DO THE JUDGES MANAGE
D. Beyond compliance (how much beyond CONFLICTS OF INTEREST?
‘business as usual’?)
• The organisations which supply judges may not enter
E. Wider application (could others adopt this initiative?) the organisational categories. Nor may their staff be
F. Organisation size (how does this rate given nominated for any of the individual categories, except
the resources available?) for Lifetime Achievement.
G. Time period (was the initiative mostly done • However, staff within these organisations may
within the last year or two?) nominate people outside their organisation for the
individual categories.
FOR THE INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES: • If an entry is received from an organisation
substantially funded by a judge’s organisation, then
A. Made a difference (how have his/her actions the judge will absent himself or herself from the
specifically benefited people?) assessment of that entry.
B. Exceeded expectations (to what extent has he or she • Similarly, if an entry is received for an initiative in which
gone the extra mile?) a judge was involved, or for a person with whom the
C. Inspired others (have they encouraged others to judge has worked, that judge will absent himself or
engage in health & safety?) herself from the assessment of that entry.
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IN ASSOCIATION WITHAWARD CATEGORIES
ORGANISATIONAL Category 5: Innovation
Category 1: Work-related safety 3M best use of innovative New Zealand design or
Kensington Swan best initiative to address a technology to eliminate or manage a risk.
work-related safety risk. This award is given to the New Zealand-originated design
This award is given to an organisation which has identified or technology initiative which best demonstrates an
a specific occupational safety risk and developed an effective solution to a specific health & safety issue. This
initiative to address it. The judges look for measurable could include new designs or control methods which help
improvements in productivity or wider business to eliminate or minimise a risk.
effectiveness. Category 6: Small business
Category 2: Work-related health Site Safe best health or safety initiative by a business
WorkSafe New Zealand best initiative to address a of no more than 50 staff.
work-related health risk. This award is given to an organisation with fewer than 50
This award is given to an organisation which identified employees in recognition that smaller organisations face
and managed a specific work-related health risk. This similar health and safety challenges as the bigger players
could include, but is not limited to, risks such as airborne but have far fewer resources to deal with them.
substances, infectious diseases, sprains and strains, Category 7: Collaboration
hazardous substances, thermal comfort, and noise.
Impac best collaboration between PCBUs.
Category 3: Wellbeing This category recognizes that many worksites are used
Vitae best initiative to promote better worker health. by a number of different organisations at the same time.
This category covers broader, more holistic initiatives to The winner will be the best initiative to facilitate effective
address issues such as mental health, fitness, nutrition communication and collaboration between two or more
and health checks. Preference will be given to those PCBUs on the same work site.
initiatives that improved the health and wellbeing of Category 8: Governance
a significant proportion of staff and which resulted in
Simpson Grierson best board level engagement in
demonstrable improvements in productivity and overall
health & safety.
wellbeing.
Boards play a vital role in health and safety leadership
Category 4: Engagement and governance. This award recognises the organisation
NZ Safety Blackwoods best initiative to encourage whose board of directors or equivalent has best
worker involvement in health & safety. demonstrated leadership and engagement on health
This award recognises efforts made by an organisation and safety. This category recognizes overall engagement
to create a strong culture of safety which engages and leadership in health and safety, not necessarily one
contractors, employees and management to seek specific initiative.
improvements in health and safety performance. Category 9: Leadership
ACC best leadership of an industry sector or region.
This award is given to the organisation whose initiative
and leadership has helped to lift workplace health and
safety standards and practices in its industry sector,
geographic region or nationally.
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IN ASSOCIATION WITHAWARD CATEGORIES CONT.
INDIVIDUAL SUPREME WINNER
Category 10: Practitioner
Worksafe New Zealand/ACC best overall contribution to
NZISM health & safety practitioner of the year improving workplace health and safety in New Zealand
This award is open to people with formal responsibility The winners of the organisational categories will be
for health and safety, and goes to the person whose considered for this award.
enthusiasm, knowledge and drive has made a substantial
contribution to workplace health & safety in their
organisation. THE FONTERRA JUDGES’
COMMENDATIONS
Category 11: Representative
Edenfx health and safety rep of the year One or more commendations may be awarded to entries
This award is open to an elected health & safety that are of particular merit, but do not comfortably sit in
representative who has acted as a champion of health any of the existing categories.
and safety and who has had a significant positive
influence on the health and safety culture of his or her
organisation.
Category 12: Leader
Business Leaders’ Health & Safety Forum health
& safety leader of the year
This award recognises a member of a senior executive
team or director who is not a health and safety
practitioner but whose leadership has helped transform
their organisation’s health and safety culture.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Countdown lifetime achievement award
This special award gives the judges the opportunity to
recognise a person who has devoted a significant portion of
their working life to advancing the cause of health and safety
in New Zealand, and whose specific achievements have
clearly benefited many people, regionally or nationally.
To nominate someone for this award, please submit a
citation of no more than 500 words explaining how the
nominee fits the above criteria. Please do not advise the
nominee that he or she has been nominated. Note that it
is in the nature of lifetime achievement awards that they
are given to people who are in latter stages of their career.
The judges reserve the right to hold nominations over for
consideration in future years.
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IN ASSOCIATION WITHTERMS AND CONDITIONS
• A correctly completed entry form is required to • All entries are regarded as confidential and will not be
accompany each entry. passed on to third parties; however, initiatives of category
• E
ntries received after the closing date will not be winners and finalists may be described in summary or in
accepted and will be returned unopened. detail at the awards dinner and in Safeguard magazine
or other Thomson Reuters publications.
• E
ntries for designs and/or inventions must be the
entrant organisation’s original concept over which the
organisation or entrant has intellectual property rights. • A
ll category winners are expected to work with
• E
ntries which the judges believe to be false or Safeguard and Awards sponsors to help publicise
exaggerated or unverifiable will not be rewarded. their achievements, and agree to participate in
publicity activities following the award presentations.
• T
he judges have complete discretion in determining
finalists and winners. Their decision is final. No • Thomson Reuters is not responsible for any loss or
correspondence will be entered into. damage to entries.
• T
homson Reuters reserves the right to publicly revoke • An award does not constitute an endorsement by
an award should we learn of information that, had it Thomson Reuters, WorkSafe New Zealand or any
been disclosed to the judges, would have materially other sponsor.
affected the panel’s decision. • For the individual categories (not including Lifetime
• T
he assessment, conduct and results of the Achievement), if a person is nominated by a person
awards shall not create any legal obligations or duties outside the nominee’s organisation, we reserve the
between entrants and Thomson Reuters and any right to inform the nominee’s organisation that they
Awards sponsor. have been nominated. This is in line with our ‘no
surprises’ policy.
• A
n award entry may be withdrawn from consideration
only by the person who submitted it.
“In 2016, we saw the value of recognising the efforts our greater team had made to generate a real difference
in safety in Fonterra. We believed that The Safeguard awards was an extremely appropriate forum to highlight
these efforts in the hope that some of our entries would be considered to be acknowledged. At Fonterra, safety
is in our DNA and we haven’t really taken the time to sit back and highlight the achievements we have made.
I am really glad we did realise this and the process of engaging our teams to enter into award categories and
highlight the achievements that have been made has really focussed us on getting a new energy to be even
better. As a leader in Health & Safety, I was so excited our teams were nominated for these prestigious awards
as it had done so much for pride and spirit, and I had really no expectation to win any. To be standing later in
the evening on the podium with the whole of the H&S team after being announced winner of the supreme
award was both humbling and just the icing on the cake.”
Greg Lazzarro, Global Health, Safety, Resilience & Risk Director at Fonterra, Supreme Winners at the
2016 New Zealand Workplace Health & Safety Awards.
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