International Safety Awards 2023: Additional Awards Winners

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International Safety Awards 2023: Additional Awards Winners

International Safety Awards 2023 – Category Winners

Free to Enter Awards

CEO of the Year

WINNER: 

  • Folake Soetan - Ikeja Electric Plc

Folake Soetan was appointed CEO of Ikeja Electric in January 2020, just before the COVID-19 lockdown. She steered the business to successfully navigate the globally challenging period earning her the trust of the over 3,000 staff in the company. She has put safety at the heart of the organisation’s core values, integrating a culture of health, safety, environment, and sustainability. She promotes employee consultation and participation and has driven a corporate goal to automate behavioural-based safety. This has resulted in a proven record of achievement.

Health, Safety and Wellbeing Ambassador of the Year Award

WINNER: 

  • Emma Short - Tees Valley Energy from Waste site

Emma Short is Administration Manager at Tees Valley Energy-from-Waste facility and one of their Wellbeing and Inclusion Ambassadors. She has played a significant role ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of colleagues and others. Through Emma the team have delivered a broad range of activities, demonstrating innovative and creative ideas, as well as having helped to influence initiatives nationally. Emma’s work has had a significant positive impact on colleagues helping to reduce absence rates.

HIGHLY COMMENDED: 

  • Md. Omar Sharif Ahmmed Chowdhury (Gonosasthaya Samaj vittik Medical College Hospital)

Health and Safety Transformation Award – sponsored by Croner–i

WINNER: 

  • Hitachi Rail in partnership with BB&A

Hitachi Rail needed to embed a consistent, global health and safety culture to reduce serious incident risk and improve overall performance. They partnered with culture change consultancy, BB&A to define and engage the business. The current culture was explored through internal interviews with four objectives identified to enable a shift. The resultant global culture change programme focused on conversation-based communications and leadership learning. Four sets of measures were used to evaluate the success of the programme, which showed significant and proven results across several areas.

NEW: Seize the Opportunity Award

WINNERS: 

  • Dubai Municipality

It was necessary to find a solution to support the emirate’s plan to confront and combat COVID-19 and to cooperate with Dubai government departments in its expanded campaign to sterilise all areas of the emirate. The Dubai Municipality solution was to manufacture equipment that sterilises the atmosphere without human intervention and at a low financial cost. Following landfill waste odour complaints this equipment was then modified to incorporate air fresheners providing wider benefits too.

  • Dubai Municipality - Health & Safety Department

Dubai Municipality Health & Safety Department collaborated with Dubai Police, to launch a Labour Community Market initiative, which was an innovative solution post-COVID to eliminate the negative effects of random markets on security, social, health, safety and wellbeing and economic aspects in labour accommodation areas. The initiative achieved many positive impacts including to secure labour jobs and engage them by providing necessary welfare facilities at their accommodation areas. Additionally, suppliers, construction and maintenance companies, and supporting services companies benefited economically.

HIGHLY COMMENDED: 

  • Tusas Engine Industries

The James Tye Award

WINNER: 

  • Dubai Municipality

The goal was to prevent public health issues in educational institutions. They created two initiatives through involving stakeholders but also students, parents and teachers to maintain safe practices in their lifestyle whether at school, home or public areas. The goal was to increase student awareness about health and safety requirements, reduce injuries rate, promote safe practices, foster positive safety culture in schools, and improve communication with educational institutions and regulatory bodies. The initiatives showed proven positive results.

Team of the Year Award

WINNERS: 

  • Fire Safety Team - Wheatley Group

The Team set a goal to reduce the number of accidental dwelling fires in Group properties by 10% over a five-year period. With help from housing colleagues and through partnership working with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, they focused on vulnerable customers and those at risk of fire due to physical, cognitive or mental impairments as well as lifestyle factors. Through extensive customer engagement, providing fire safety advice and ascertaining if further control measures were required, accidental dwelling fires reduced.

  • Project HSE Steering Committee DMCC's Dubai Uptown Project - WSP Middle East

The Project HSE Steering Committee was formed from stakeholders such as (sub)contractors to manage the HSE aspects in DMCC's Dubai Uptown Project. Various studies into critical hazards and mitigation programs resulted in successful campaigns during the year. All the smart initiatives and hard work of the team yielded fruitful results. Safety culture improved and the project is even driving broader changes within the sector and geographical region.

Wellbeing Initiative Award – powered by Being Well Together

WINNER: 

  • EMCOR UK

The Wellbeing Sustainability and Assurance department committed to deliver cultural change across the organisation. Through the ‘Be There For Life’ programme, the principle aim was to promote behavioural based change, develop a just culture and more collaborative working. The output was a more robust, proactive and risk-based approach to thinking, behaviours and decision making. Through the program they saw significant improvements in RIDDOR incidents related to improving culture and raising awareness of risk.

 

Best in Sector

Art and Culture – Museums, Galleries

  • Ejadah - Idama Facilities Management Solutions

Construction and Property Activities

  • Britcon (UK) Limited
  • China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corp. Ltd - Subdivisions I & II of Bid ZJTLSG-Ⅱ for Shandong Section of New Railway from Zhengzhou to Jinan
  • China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd- Construction of Motorway on Corridor Vc Section
  • WSP In the Middle East - DMCC Uptown Tower

Education

  • TTE Training Limited

Financial, IT, Legal, Scientific and Technical Services and Media

  • Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Leisure, Sports Clubs, Hospitality and Catering

  • The FA - St. George's Park

Local Government, Defence and Public Service

  • China Harbour (Singapore) Engineering Company Pte. Ltd. - TUAS Water Reclamation Plant (TWRP) Contract 2B 
  • Morrison Data Services

Manufacturing

  • Istanbul Asfalt Fabrikalari Sanayi Ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi

Oil, Gas, Mining and Quarrying

  • WRB Gas (Contracts) Ltd

Onshore major hazard

  • City Demolition Contractors Birmingham Ltd

Power and Utilities

  • ENKA İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş - Misurata 650 MW Simple Cycle Power Plant Project

Transport, Distribution and Storage

  • SunExpress Airlines

Wholesale and Retail Services

  • Nippon Gases UK Ltd

 

Best in Country

Africa

  • ENKA İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş - Misurata 650 MW Simple Cycle Power Plant Project

Bahrain

  • Bahrain Petroleum Company B.S.C. (Closed)

Bangladesh

  • Larsen and Toubro Limited, Transportation Infrastructure IC, Railway SBG, Dhaka Metro, CP-07 Project

China

  • China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corp. Ltd - Subdivisions I & II of Bid ZJTLSG-Ⅱ for Shandong Section of New Railway from Zhengzhou to Jinan

Egypt

  • China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corp, Ltd(North China) & China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd (EGYPT) - Alamein Downtown Towers D01M

Europe

  • China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd- Construction of Motorway on Corridor Vc Section

Jordan

  • AES Jordan PSC
  • AES Levant Holdings BV

Kuwait

  • Kuwait National Petroleum Company - Head Office

Malaysia

  • Petronas Gas Berhad - Regas Terminal (Sungai Udang)

Pakistan

  • Engro Powergen Thar Limited (EPTL)
  • Pak Arab Fertilizers Ltd

Qatar

  • Galfar Al Misnad - EPIC for Route Survey, Design Construction, Installation & Hook-up of Well flow Lines in Dukhan Fields, Part -A (2019-2022)

Saudi Arabia

  • KEC International Ltd - Saudi Arabia

Serbia

  • China Construction First Group Corporation Limited - The Chinese Cultural Center Project

Singapore

  • Or Kim Peow Contractor (Pte) Ltd: ER443-Walk2Ride

Thailand

  • China State Construction Engineering (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

Turkey

  • SunExpress Airlines

United Kingdom

  • Britcon (UK) Limited

UAE

  • WSP In the Middle East - DMCC Uptown Tower

 

Chief Adjudicator’s Award

WINNERS: 

  • Britcon (UK) Limited
  • China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corp. Ltd - Subdivisions I & II of Bid ZJTLSG-Ⅱ for Shandong Section of New Railway from Zhengzhou to Jinan
  • China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd- Construction of Motorway on Corridor Vc Section
  • ENKA İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş - Misurata 650 MW Simple Cycle Power Plant Project
  • SunExpress Airlines
  • WSP In the Middle East - DMCC Uptown Tower