HEALTH & SAFETY
DRIVING UP STANDARDS
ROSPA
A GROWING NETWORK OF NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL H&S EXPERTS
The RoSPA Health and Safety Awards, now
into its 63rd year, aims to promote best
practice in workplaces around the world to
drive up standards and ensure that no-one
is harmed or made ill while doing their job.
We want to make sure that every worker
goes home at the end of every day safe and
well to their families.
The Awards scheme is recognised across the
world, and currently receives entries from
organisations in over 30 countries across the
globe, that have a combined reach of more
than seven million employees.
health and safety management capability
is rooted in the care and concern shown by
its culture.
Central to the continuing success and
growing influence of the RoSPA Awards
is the dedication and commitment of its
winners, with several having now picked up
the prestigious RoSPA Patron’s Award, given
only to those with more than 25 years of
Gold-level achievement. Colas Limited was named winner of the
Construction Engineering Sector, with
Wessex Engineering and Construction
Services being Highly Commended; and
Nuvia Limited was crowned winner of
the Engineering Services Sector, with
Vanderlande Industries UK Limited being
Highly Commended.
Entrants large and small come from all
sectors, with many having engineering at
their core. In 2018 (to name a few!), Gulf
Petrochemical Industries Company was
the winner of the Chemical Sector Award; But taking the overall “best in show” prize
– the Sir George Earle Trophy – in 2018
was National Physical Laboratory, with the
judging panel of industry experts noting
that the strength of the organisation’s
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The RoSPA Awards is underpinned and
driven by up-to-date occupational safety
and health policy, setting it apart from
any other industry awards scheme. This
policy is informed and shaped by the
exclusive Awards Excellence Forum, into
which each and every entrant is granted
access. The Forum draws on the expertise
of practitioners from around the world,
allowing them to encourage, support
and challenge each other, and raise the
standards of those looking to improve their
safety cultures.
RoSPA’s vision is one of life, free from serious
accidental injury, and through the RoSPA
Awards and its extensive and ever-growing
network of world-leading organisations, it’s
a vision that we’re striving quickly towards.
Join us! See www.rospa.com/awards.