The British Safety Council’s International Safety Awards 2022 have opened for applications, with a new category to celebrate the achievements of individuals and organisations who go the extra mile to transform health, safety and wellbeing
The International Safety Awards are an internationally recognised accolade for safety excellence. Now in their 64th year, the awards recognise an organisation’s commitment to excellent standards of health, safety and wellbeing management.
In 2021, more than 500 organisations of all sizes, types and sectors won an International Safety Award. The winners included businesses from the UK, Africa, Asia, India, mainland Europe and the Middle East. A full list of 2021’s winners can be found here.
Businesses of all sizes, types and sectors around the world can apply. There are 12 award categories for 2022, including seven that are free to enter.
Launching the International Safety Awards for 2022, Mike Robinson, CEO of the British Safety Council, said, “2021 has been a challenging year for many businesses. Unpredictability brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in ongoing health, safety and wellbeing challenges for organisations across the globe.
“The British Safety Council’s annual awards offer companies, teams and individuals the chance to be recognised for their hard work and achievements in protecting and enhancing the health, safety and wellbeing of their organisations’ workers.”
Businesses applying can be recognised as ‘best in class’ across four categories:
1) The Sector Awards will recognise overall ‘best in class’ submissions by organisations to the International Safety Awards, by industry sector category
2) The Best in Country Awards will recognise the highest scoring and best overall application from individual countries where there are more than four applications from the given country
3) Best in Company Award is for organisations with 50 or more participating sites and recognises the site(s) with the most outstanding applications
4) Chief Adjudicator’s Award will recognise the most outstanding applications from this year’s entrants. Previous winners have been exemplars in their respective areas and evidenced this through their application responses.
Winners of the Sector and Best in Country will only be awarded where there is an applicant who has achieved a distinction in their 2021 International Safety Award application.
