Winners announced - Safeguard 2025 New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards

 

 

 

Fatigue management initiative takes out national health and safety award!

 

The winners in the New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards for 2025 have been decided. The winners in each of the categories, and an overall winner, were presented at a gala dinner at the Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland on Tuesday 17 June, attended by more than 680 people.

The Worksafe New Zealand/ACC Best Overall Contribution to Improving Workplace Health & Safety in New Zealand was awarded to the Port Industry Fatigue Working Group for the development of guidelines to manage the risk of worker fatigue at the country’s ports.

Fatigue is a significant risk given the 24/7 dynamic nature of port work. The Working Group saw 28 organisations work together in consultation with international experts to develop the sector’s first fatigue risk management system guidelines and an implementation plan to put them into effect.

Safeguard editor Peter Bateman, convenor of the five-person judging panel, said the Port Industry Fatigue Working Group’s efforts are an inspiration to other industry sectors seeking to tackle their own challenging risks. “This sector group brought together a disparate group of players historically at loggerheads – port companies, stevedoring and marshalling companies, container depot operators, unions, a regulator – and united them in a successful effort to tackle a long-standing and previously intractable problem.”

The awards, which began in 2005, are organised by Thomson Reuters, publisher of Safeguard magazine, and proudly supported by WorkSafe New Zealand and ACC.

Here are the winners: 

• OVERALL WINNER OF THE SUPREME AWARD
  Port Industry Fatigue Working Group
• SAFETY AWARD
  Fonterra Whareroa
• HEALTH AWARD
  Stevenson Aggregates
• WELLBEING AWARD
  NZ Post
• ENGAGEMENT AWARD
  Comvita
• INNOVATION AWARD
  DairyNZ
• SAFETY-II AWARD
  Department of Corrections
• COLLABORATION AWARD
  Port Industry Fatigue Working Group
• GOVERNANCE AWARD
  Ministry for Primary Industries
• LEADERSHIP AWARD
  Coda Group
• PRACTITIONER AWARD
  Jo Bradley, C3
• EMERGING PRACTITIONER AWARD
  Brittny O'Hanlon, Air New Zealand
• H&S REPRESENTATIVE AWARD
  Beth Williamson, Boffa Miskell
• MENTAL HEALTH CHAMPION AWARD
  Pauline Cox, NZ Post
• LEADERSHIP AWARD
  Richard Marshall, Air New Zealand
• JUDGES' COMMENDATION 
  Land Search and Rescue Peer Support Network
• JUDGES' COMMENDATION
  McConnell Dowell Queen Salote Wharf upgrade
• Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Felicity Lamm and George Adams.

Congratulations to all the finalists and winners! For more inforamation click here.(external link)