Year 2005 - Winners
Recipients of the WorkCover NSW Safe Work Awards 2005 were announced in Sydney at an awards ceremony on Friday 28 October 2005 by NSW Minister for Commerce, John Della Bosca and WorkCover NSW Chief Executive Officer, Jon Blackwell.
The award recipients were:
Category: Best solution to an identified workplace health and safety issue
Winner - Fallstop Pty Ltd
The Award for the ‘Best Solution to an Identified Workplace Health and Safety Issue’ went to Fallstop Pty Ltd for ‘Stair Mate’, a fall prevention system for the housing industry.
This temporary floor-to-floor access system acts a provisional stairwell and provides safe access to each level of construction within a building.
Category: Best solution to a workplace manual handling hazard
Winner - OK Steelex Pty Ltd
The Award for ‘Best Solution to a Workplace Manual-Handling Hazard’ was given to OK Steelex Pty Ltd for a steel reinforcement jig.
Using this innovative engineering solution, OK Steelex has been able to reduce its employees’ manual-handling risks. The jig has been operational on the Westlink M7 for over a year; 8,000 tonnes of steel have been laid and no time lost to injuries during this period.
Highly Commended
The judges were impressed with the number of excellent manual-handling submissions and decided to give two ‘Highly Commended’ Awards. The first went to The Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick for a ‘breast feeding chair’ which reduces the risk of injury for staff helping new mothers. Staff at the hospital voted this chair as their Number One Health and Safety Initiative.
The second ‘Highly Commended’ Award was given to Uniting Care / Nareen Gardens for their ‘Sit Safe Table’, which reduces the risk of injury for staff who have to physically assist residents to and from the dining table. The table has been shown on the ABC’s The New Inventors program and has generated enormous interest from nursing homes around Australia.
Category: Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System
Winner - Insurance Australia Group (IAG)
The Award for ‘Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System’ was given to Insurance Australia Group (IAG) for their simplified risk management philosophy, Be-Safe. Since the introduction of this system in the past year, IAG has achieved a 57% reduction in total incurred workers compensation costs.
Category: Workplace Safety Champion - Medium / Large Business
In the category, ‘Workplace Safety Champion - Medium / Large Business’, the judges decided two finalists should be acknowledged for their outstanding work in health and safety in the workplace.
Mario Tuccio , who works at One Steel in Kembla Grange, was entered in the Awards by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. Mario has been responsible for a number of important health and safety changes in his workplace, and has also helped with health and safety issues in his local community.
Luke Hannon , from Mt. Druitt police station, was entered in the awards by the Police Association of NSW. Also responsible for a range of initiatives, Luke’s involvement and persistence to get things right have made a major contribution to the health and safety of his workplace, as well as to the wider NSW Police Service.
