Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative of the Year

This award recognises initiatives introduced or championed within the tunnelling industry which have enabled a project or programme team to deliver improved performance with respect to health, safety and welfare of the workforce.

The entry should demonstrate how the initiative led to increased health, safety or welfare on the project and how it improved productivity and/or employee satisfaction.

Judges will look for a health, safety and wellbeing initiative being applied in a project or programme that:

• - Works with external stakeholders e.g. HSE
• - Learns from or was triggered by an accident/incident/near miss
• - References industry leading initiatives/examples
• - Has been demonstrably embedded into working practices

Initiatives that would be encouraged would include:

• - Examples of effective safety management both at organisational and operational level
• - Employee recognition schemes that promote wellbeing
• - Links to company initiatives around occupational and mental health
• - Initiatives to promote a healthy workforce

Judges will be particularly interested to hear about:

• The drivers that led to the initiative being launched
• Any longer-term impacts prompted by the initiative
• Cost implications of the initiative
• Why this initiative goes beyond normal practices

The entry should relate to an initiative that was championed between January 2018 and July 2019.