2023 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards winners and finalists

The Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards was held at Optus Stadium on 27 October 2023. These awards recognise outstanding solutions and innovations to specific workplace health and safety problems in Western Australia.

Sixty five submissions were received with 25 companies recognised as finalists. Seven finalists were recognised with a winner’s trophy and five finalists received a certificate of merit. An outline of all finalists and winners are available in the Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards 2023 Booklet.

The Department would like to congratulate the Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards winners and finalists.

Winner
- Wallis Drilling Pty Ltd – Aircore automated rod handling system
Certificate of merit recipient
- Rigsafe Lifting Solutions – Americold High Bay Cold Storage Facility
Finalists
- Carey Mining Pty Ltd – Sunrise Dam Gold Mine
- Data Station Pty Ltd – Quick response codes
- Hydratune Pty Ltd – SafeAdjust
- Rigsafe Lifting Solutions – Americold High Bay Cold Storage Facility
- Wallis Drilling Pty Ltd – Aircore automated rod handling system
199 employees or less
Winner
- Epigroup – Alter Ergo
Finalists
- Co Connect App – Camp Connect Workforce app
- Epigroup – Alter Ergo
- Monford Group – Solar farm project
200 employees or more
Winner
- City of Canning – LBin tail lift platform at the Resource and Recovery Waste Transfer Station
Certificate of merit recipient
- Edith Cowan University – Immersive Violence and Aggression De-escalation Experience (IVADE)
Finalists
- City of Canning – LBin tail lift platform at the Resource and Recovery Waste Transfer Station
- Edith Cowan University – Immersive Violence and Aggression De-escalation Experience (IVADE)
- Mineral Resources – Health clinic
Winner
- Town of Port Hedland – Reducing the impact of anti-social behaviours and psychosocial related hazards to staff and the public
Certificate of merit recipient
- East Metropolitan Health Service, WA Health, Royal Perth Bentley Group, RPH Emergency Department – MAKESpace
Finalists
- East Metropolitan Health Service, WA Health, Royal Perth Bentley Group, RPH Emergency Department – MAKESpace
- FIFO Focus – Psychosocial Risk Management Capability Enhancement Program
- Town of Port Hedland – Reducing the impact of anti-social behaviours and psychosocial related hazards to staff and the public
- Water Corporation – Mental Health Champions
199 employees or less
Winner
- Macco Feeds – Implementing work health and safety
Finalists
- Macco Feeds – Implementing work health and safety
- Pirkx Australia – Pirkx meaningful support in the workplace
200 employees or more
Winner
- Good Sammy Enterprises – Safety management
Finalists
- Curtin University – Leadership health and wellbeing project
- East Metropolitan Health Service, WA Health, Armadale Kalamunda Group – EMHS Wellbeing Support Program, Armadale Health Service Emergency Department
- EDL Energy – Safety Leadership Working Group as a force for real change at Maitland LNG
- Good Sammy Enterprises – Safety management
Winner
- Rob Curtis – St John Western Australia
Certificate of merit recipient
- Scott Turner and Ceinwyn Kent, Armadale Health Service Emergency Department (joint entry)
Finalists
- Ceinwyn Kent and Scott Turner – Armadale Health Service Emergency Department
- Dana Steddy, Jen Byrne, Tina Tuira-Waldon, Sharon Ruakere – Department of Justice, Banksia Hill Detention Centre
- Robert Nankivell – BHP Newman West Operations
- Rob Curtis – St John Western Australia

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