The EEA Excellence in Health and Safety Leadership Award recognises an individual who demonstrates outstanding leadership, commitment, and excellence to improve health and safety outcomes for the industry.
The Award is open to all Members including staff of a Corporate Member of the EEA .
Entrants do not need to hold a specific leadership role but must be able to demonstrate leadership through their actions.
The award recognises individuals that:
Demonstrate
- leadership that fosters a culture of safety, inspires others, and driving continuous improvement.
- an unwavering commitment to promoting health and safety.
- effective collaboration skills that encourage others to participate.
Advocate and communicate effectively to publicise ideas, procedures and training that encourage knowledge sharing.
Deliver tangible results and achievements that can be attributed to the nominee’s work
Judging Criteria
Judges are looking for supporting information and evidence of:
- Excellence and innovation beyond ‘business as usual’ – leading health and safety projects, governance or other activity, that makes a difference to workplace health and safety, or public safety outcomes, and the ability to develop, and implement visionary change and inspire others.
- Impact on health, safety and wellbeing be it the enhancement of a culture of safety, or performance metrics including significant risk reduction, reduced incidents, and enhanced employee well-being.
- High standards of ethical and personal behaviour.
- Contribution and commitment to the development of others in the industry including evidence of effective communication, advocacy and knowledge sharing.
The Awards Committee reserves the right to not make an award in any given year.
Judging Panel
How to Enter
Enter an individual who you think is most deserving of this award and provide supporting information to help our judging panel select the winner using the form below. Nominations must be signed-off by a member of the nominee’s organisation’s senior management team.
Nominations should include:
- A compelling statement outlining why the nominee deserves to receive the Health and Safety Leadership Award.
- Explanation and evidence that demonstrates how the nominee meets each of the criteria for the award. Provide metrics, specific examples, or other evidence to support each criterion.
- Any relevant supporting documentation that further illustrate the nominee’s impact and accomplishments in health and safety leadership. (e.g. performance metrics testimonials, case studies, awards, or press coverage).
- Supporting visual/multimedia material which includes up to 6 high quality colour images either in jpg or tif format, or clearly labelled photographs; and/or up to 25 seconds of mpg video file or automated PowerPoint presentation.
The judging panel may contact nominees directly for more information.