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The New Zealand Workplace Health & Safety Awards 2021 ENTRY PACK IN ASSOCIATION WITH: SPONSORED BY:
ABOUT THE AWARDS
BACKGROUND
• The NZ Workplace Health & Safety Awards have run each year since 2005
• 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 The awards will be presented at a gala dinner on 1 June
and the dedicated people working to improve health 2021 at the Cordis Hotel in Auckland, the social highlight
and safety outcomes in New Zealand. of the year for everyone involved in health and safety.
The gala dinner coincides with the two-day Safeguard
National Health and Safety Conference.
WHO JUDGES THE AWARDS?
Finalists receive a complimentary ticket to the dinner.
The Awards are judged by a panel appointed each year.
The panel includes representatives from Safeguard,
WorkSafe New Zealand, ACC and a union. It also includes
an experienced health and safety practitioner and a KEY DATES:
recent winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award.
ENTRIES OPEN .................. EARLY 2021
HOW MANY CATEGORIES ENTRIES CLOSE ................. 23 MARCH 2021
ARE THERE? FINALISTS NOTIFIED ........ 9 APRIL 2021
There are 9 categories for organisations GALA DINNER .................... 1 JUNE 2021
and 5 categories for individuals.
Details of each category appear on pages 6 and 7.
WHO CAN ENTER? Thinking of submitting an entry into
• Any organisation which operates in New Zealand an organisational category? Don’t
• Any person who works in New Zealand forget to enter the people behind the
• An organisation can submit multiple entries, so long
as each entry describes a substantially different
initiative into an individual category.
health and safety initiative
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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 reflect on what has worked well over the last year and individuals involved, which is an opportunity to
or so, and the lessons learned. This process of critical reinforce key messages to staff and others across your
analysis is valuable in evaluating your strengths (and supply chain around health and safety engagement.
ongoing challenges) in health and safety - and may
spur further improvements.
NETWORKING AND LEARNING
PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF GOOD WORK Finalist or not, the gala dinner provides great learning
and networking opportunities for people at all levels,
The successful initiatives or personal qualities of all from frontline workers to directors.
finalists are acknowledged publicly at the gala dinner
in front of a large audience of influential experts,
executives 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? WHAT IS THE ENTRY PROCESS?
(include the risks involved)
• What solution did you come up with Entrants are encouraged to submit their entries
to solve the 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 Each entry requires two documents:
has been successful? • A completed entry form (downloadable)
• The entry itself
HOW SHOULD I WRITE AN ENTRY FOR Please note that there are separate entry forms for
ONE OF THE INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES? organisational and individual categories.
We suggest you answer the following questions
CAN I SUPPLY SUPPORTING MATERIAL?
about the person you nominate:
• How do you know the nominee? If you have essential supporting evidence which cannot
• What does the nominee’s organisation do? be sent via PDF (eg: video or physical objects closely
(eg: industry sector, size, key activities) related to the entry) then please send via courier to:
• What is the nominee’s role?
Thomson Reuters (Safeguard Awards)
• Why have you nominated this person?
Level 1, 10 College Hill
• What has the individual achieved within the last
Freemans Bay
12 to 18 months that has made a difference to the
Auckland 1011
health and safety of their organisation or industry?
Or via post to:
HOW LONG SHOULD AN ENTRY BE? Thomson Reuters (Safeguard Awards)
Most entries should be able to be described in no more PO Box 147245
than three or four A4 pages. Auckland 1144
CAN I ENTER MORE THAN ONE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS?
INITIATIVE OR NOMINATE MORE Please contact us via email:
THAN ONE PERSON? safeguardawards@thomsonreuters.com
Or by phone to Annette Vao, 021 247 7144.
Yes, so long as you submit a new entry for each one.
Each entry requires a separate entry form.
ENTRIES CLOSE
5pm, March 23 2021
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IN ASSOCIATION WITH: SPONSORED BY:JUDGING
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
initiative or nominee. criteria on the left
• T
hey reserve the right to move an entry to
a different category
FOR THE ORGANISATIONAL • T
hey accept each entry on good faith as a fair and
CATEGORIES: accurate description. However they have the ability
A. Credible detail (is the initiative sufficiently to contact the entry’s nominated referee to seek
well described?) clarification
B. R
isk reduction (to what extent has people’s •
The judges’ deliberations are confidential.
health or safety benefited?) No correspondence will be entered into
C. Innovation (how clever/original is this?) •
This means that we are unable to give any feedback on
reasons why an entry may not have been successful
D. Beyond compliance (how much beyond
‘business as usual’?)
E. Wider application (could others adopt this initiative?) HOW DO THE JUDGES MANAGE
F.
Organisation size (how does this rate given CONFLICTS OF INTEREST?
the resources available?) •
The organisations which supply judges may not enter
G. T
ime period (was the initiative mostly done within the organisational categories. Nor may their staff be
the last 12 to 18 months?) nominated for any of the individual categories, except
for Lifetime Achievement
• H
owever, staff within these organisations may
FOR THE INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES:
nominate people outside their organisation for the
A. M
ade a difference (how have his/her actions individual categories
specifically benefited people?) • If an entry is received from an organisation
B. E
xceeded expectations (to what extent has he substantially funded by a judge’s organisation,
or she gone the extra mile?) then the judge will absent himself or herself from
C. Inspired others (have they encouraged others the assessment of that entry
to engage in health & safety?) • S
imilarly, if an entry is received for an initiative in which
D. T
ime period (have their actions taken place in a judge was involved, or for a person with whom the
the last 12 to 18 months?) judge has worked, that judge will absent himself or
herself from the assessment of that entry
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IN ASSOCIATION WITH: SPONSORED BY:AWARD CATEGORIES
Entries in all Organisational and Individual Category 5: Innovation
categories – except Lifetime Achievement – are For the development of a New Zealand design or
expected to describe specific recent initiatives, that is, technology which eliminates or manages a risk to
initiatives which have occurred in the 12 to 18 months safety or health at work.
prior to the Awards year.
Sponsored by
ORGANISATIONAL
Category 1: Safety
For an initiative which addresses a specific work-related Category 6: Small business
safety risk. For an organisation of no more than 50 staff which can
Sponsored by demonstrate successful health and safety initiatives to
improve the health, safety or wellbeing of its own people.
Sponsored by
Category 2: Health
For an initiative which addresses a specific work-related
health risk.
Category 7: Collaboration
Sponsored by
Best example of collaboration between two or
more PCBUs to achieve outstanding health and
safety outcomes.
Category 3: Wellbeing Sponsored by
For an initiative which seeks to improve the physical
and/or mental health of workers.
Sponsored by
Category 8: Governance
Best example of Board (or equivalent governance group)
engagement in health and safety.
Category 4: Engagement Sponsored by
For an initiative which successfully engages people in
seeking to improve health, safety and wellbeing at work.
Sponsored by
Category 9: Leadership
For leadership of an industry sector or geographic region
whose initiatives have helped to improve workplace
health and safety.
Sponsored by
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IN ASSOCIATION WITH: SPONSORED BY:AWARD CATEGORIES CONT.
INDIVIDUAL LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Category 10: Practitioner This special award gives the judges the opportunity to
recognise a person who has devoted a significant portion of
Recognise an individual whose work over the last 12
their working life to advancing the cause of health and safety
to 18 months prior to the Awards year has significantly
in New Zealand, and whose specific achievements have
influenced health and safety practice and outcomes in
clearly benefited many people, regionally or nationally.
their organisation.
To nominate someone for this award, please submit a
Sponsored by
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
Category 11: Emerging practitioner given to people who are in the latter stages of their career.
The judges reserve the right to hold nominations over for
Recognise the work of health and safety practitioner, but
consideration in future years.
restricted to people aged under 35 as at 31 March 2021,
AND who have less than five years’ experience in a paid Sponsored by
H&S role.
Sponsored by
SUPREME WINNER
Category 12: Representative The winners of the organisational categories will be
considered for this award.
Open to elected H&S representatives whose efforts to
influence and persuade have led to demonstrable positive Sponsored by
changes in their organisation’s approach to H&S.
Sponsored by
JUDGES’ COMMENDATIONS
One or more commendations may be awarded to entries
Category 13: Leader that are of particular merit, but do not comfortably sit in
Open to directors or senior executives whose are not H&S any of the existing categories.
practitioners but whose leadership has helped transform Sponsored by
their organisation’s approach to H&S.
Sponsored by
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IN ASSOCIATION WITH: SPONSORED BY:TERMS AND CONDITIONS
• A correctly completed entry form is required to • For the individual categories (not including Lifetime
accompany each entry. Achievement), if a person is nominated by someone
• Entries received after the closing date will not be outside the nominee’s organisation, we reserve the
accepted and will be returned unopened. right to inform the nominee’s organisation that they
have been nominated. We also reserve the right to show
• Entries for designs and/or inventions must be the
the nominee’s organisation the entry. This is in line with
entrant organisation’s original concept, over which the
our ‘no surprises’ policy.
organisation or entrant has intellectual property rights.
• All entries are regarded as confidential and will not be
• Entries which the judges believe to be false,
passed on to third parties; however, initiatives of category
exaggerated or unverifiable will not be rewarded.
winners and finalists may be described in summary or in
• The judges have complete discretion in determining
detail at the awards dinner and in Safeguard magazine
finalists and winners. Their decision is final. No
or other Thomson Reuters publications.
correspondence will be entered into.
• All category winners and finalists are expected to work
• Thomson Reuters reserves the right to publicly revoke
with Safeguard and Awards sponsors to help publicise
an award or withdraw a finalist should we learn of
their achievements, and agree to participate in
information that, had it been disclosed to the judges,
publicity activities following the award presentations.
would have materially affected the panel’s decision.
• Thomson Reuters is not responsible for any loss or
• The assessment, conduct and results of the
damage to entries. Entries will not be returned once
awards shall not create any legal obligations or duties
submitted.
between entrants and Thomson Reuters and any
• An award does not constitute an endorsement by
Awards sponsor.
Thomson Reuters, WorkSafe New Zealand or any
• An award entry may be withdrawn from consideration
other sponsor.
only by the person who submitted it.
• Sponsor organisations, or their representatives, are not
• Entrants are expected to have all necessary approvals
permitted to enter the category which they sponsor.
from within their organisation to enter.
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