- Nominations are now open for the 2025 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards
- Awards are a great opportunity to have workplace health and safety initiatives publicly recognised
- Nominations close on 27 June
Nominations are now open for the prestigious 2025 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards, rewarding and celebrating health and safety initiatives across Western Australian workplaces.
This year's award categories are:
- Work health and safety invention of the year;
- Best solution to a work health and safety risk;
- Best intervention to address a psychosocial hazard in the workplace;
- Leadership excellence award; and
- Health and safety representative of the year.
There are two awards in each category - one for small business (199 employees or less) and one for large business (200 employees or more) - to ensure that all sizes of business have an equal opportunity to win an award.
Further information on the award categories, entry requirements and assessment criteria is available on the WorkSafe website, at www.demirs.wa.gov.au/safetyawards .
Nominations close on 27 June, and the winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in October during Safe Work Month.
As stated by Industrial Relations Minister Simone McGurk:
"These awards recognise outstanding solutions and innovations in health and safety across all workplaces.
"This is a terrific opportunity for WA businesses of all sizes to show off their workplace health and safety initiatives and to receive some well-deserved recognition.
"I encourage companies and individuals to consider nominating for the awards and taking advantage of the opportunity to have their workplace health and safety achievements publicly recognised."
