Awards
SGUK AWARDS UPDATE
- September 2023 -
SGUK NATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY AWARDS 2023
The SGUK Awards are an opportunity to recognise, celebrate and communicate the success of Safety Groups, organisations, and individuals. SGUK has 4 main Award Categories and 2 categories decided by Awards Working Party:
- Innovation Awards, incorporating the Lord Cullen Trophy, to recognise health and safety innovation.
- Excellence Awards, incorporating the Alan Butler Award, to celebrate the excellent work of Safety Groups.
- Outstanding Service Award, incorporating the Maurice Adamson Award to recognise the outstanding work of individuals within Safety Groups.
- Development Through Education Award, incorporating the SCoS award, to recognise health and safety development achieved through education.
Awards decided by the Awards Working Party from entries made to other Awards - Health Risks at Work Projects and Community-related Projects.
There are no fees to enter. Entry packs containing forms, guidance, and rules are provided below, please follow the links. Sponsorship opportunities for these prestigious Awards are available, please see information below.
SGUK Awards 2023 - Summary
SGUK Excellence Awards
The SGUK Excellence Awards represent an opportunity for each Safety Group to reflect on their performance and achievements over the preceding twelve months. Their entries enable them to convey this to the independent panel of judges, who are provided with valuable insight into the work of each group submitting an entry.
SGUK Outstanding Service Awards
The SGUK Outstanding Service Award recognises the 'Outstanding contribution from an individual to the Safety Groups Movement'. Any elected member of a Safety Group's Committee is invited to nominate an individual for the Outstanding Service Award.
SGUK Innovation Awards
The SGUK Innovation Awards are open to all organisations of any size based or operating in the UK, whether or not they are currently members of SGUK. The aim is to celebrate and share best practices and the latest thinking and innovation in health and safety management.
SGUK Development Through Education Awards
The SGUK Development Through Education Awards are open to all organisations of any size based or operating in the UK, whether or not they are currently members of SGUK, that have involved learners of any age in an initiative that demonstrates effective educational engagement to advance health and safety. This is likely to include those in school, at college, in apprenticeships, in university, or early in their employment who are involved in initiatives whereby awareness of problems and solutions arising from risks has been increased or new solutions to old risk problems have been discovered.
Awards decided by the Awards Working Party from entries made to other Awards - Health Risks at Work Projects and Community-related Projects.
SGUK Awards 2023 - Sponsors
Opportunities to sponsor the SGUK Awards 2023 and Award Ceremony are available and provide a valuable platform for organisations that support health and safety excellence to associate themselves with these esteemed free-to-enter Awards. Please send a request for further information on sponsorship to safetygroupsuk@rospa.com.
Benefits of sponsoring the SGUK Awards:
- Being involved in one of the most prestigious health and safety Awards in the UK.
- Publicity through the SGUK website.
- Use of sponsor logo and sponsor profile with link to sponsor website.
- Opportunity to present the award sponsored to the winning entrant at a prestigious event.
- Opportunity to feature as a case study on the HSE website and social media.
- Opportunity to showcase ‘Best Practice’ throughout the UK.
- Being part of the oldest Health and Safety Network in the UK.
- Press releases and articles in mainstream health and safety magazines.
SGUK Awards 2022 – Entry forms, rules and guidance
Excellence Awards, incorporating the Alan Butler Award |
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The Excellence Awards are sponsored by BT In recognition of excellence among groups and open to all Health & Safety Groups that are members of SGUK |
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Alan Butler Award |
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SGUK Awards Gold Certificate |
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SGUK Awards Silver Certificate |
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SGUK Awards Bronze Certificate |
Excellence Awards - Entry Form, Rules & Guidance
Maurice Adamson Award for Outstanding Service |
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In recognition of the outstanding service of an individual nominated by their Health & Safety Group that are members of SGUK. |
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The winning individual’s name is engraved onto The Maurice Adamson Shield, which they can proudly display for 1 year. The winning individual also receives a miniature commemorative shield to keep. |
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In recognition of the innovative work being done to raise the standards of health and safety. The SGUK Innovation Awards are open to all organisations of any size based or operating in the UK, whether or not they are currently members of a Safety Group. Our aim is to celebrate and share best practices and the latest thinking and innovation in health and safety management. It is a condition of entry that entries for the Innovation Awards are made available to be shared, copied, or adapted and used by Safety Groups and other organisations free of charge. We will carry out an initial assessment of entries after the closing date to determine which entries will be shortlisted to proceed to the next stage, which involves a presentation to the judging panel during a virtual meeting. Entrants must be willing to present their entry to the judges at a time and date to be advised. The presentation should be no more than 30 minutes and will be followed by questions from the judges. The Lord Cullen Trophy is sponsored by idverde
Innovation - Entry Form, Rules & Guidance |
Development Through Education Awards
In recognition of effective educational engagement of learners of any age to advance health and safety.
This award is for Safety Groups, their member organisations, or other organisations willing to become a member of a Safety Group that have involved learners of any age in an initiative that demonstrates effective educational engagement to advance health and safety. This is likely to include those in school, at college, in apprenticeships, in university, or early in their employment who are involved in initiatives whereby awareness of problems and solutions arising from risks has been increased or new solutions to old risk problems have been discovered.
It is a condition of entry that entries for the Development Through Education Awards are made available to be shared, copied, or adapted and used by Safety Groups and other organisations free of charge.
We will carry out an initial assessment of entries after the closing date to determine which entries will be shortlisted to proceed to the next stage, which involves a presentation to the judging panel during a virtual meeting.
Entrants must be willing to present their entry to the judges at a time and date to be advised. The presentation should be no more than 30 minutes and will be followed by questions from the judges.
- First place prize winner SCoS Award, Silver Punch Bowl
Development Through Education - Entry Form, Rules & Guidance
Where relevant, you can submit the same item to both the Innovation and Development Through Education Award categories, separate entry forms are required.