This list of occupational health and safety awards is an index to articles about notable awards for occupational health and safety. The list is organized by country since awards are almost always restricted to organizations in the same country as the sponsor of the award.
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Hunter Safety Awards | National Safety Council of Australia | Organisations and people that actively promote Work Health and Safety [1] |
| Australia | National Safe Work Australia Awards | Safe Work Australia | Safety and Management Achievement Program [2] |
| Australia | WorkCover New South Wales SafeWork Awards | New South Wales | High standards of occupational health and safety in workplaces around New South Wales [3] |
| Australia | Workplace Excellence Awards | Business Victoria (Government of Victoria) | Victorian workplaces that are pursuing cooperative approaches to industrial relations as part of their goal of better organisational performance [4] |
| Australia | Worksafe Victoria Awards | WorkSafe Victoria | Businesses and individuals whose ideas, initiative and innovation help Victorian workers get home safely each night [5] |
| Canada | John T. Ryan Trophy | Mine Safety Appliances, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum | Mine in a given category which experiences the lowest accident frequency during the previous year in all of Canada [6] [7] |
| Germany | Blue Angel (certification) | Jury Umweltzeichen | Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) Products and services that have environmentally friendly aspects [8] |
| New Zealand | Workplace Health and Safety Awards | Thomson Reuters New Zealand | All aspects of workplace health, safety and wellbeing [9] |
| Singapore | Workplace Safety and Health Awards | Workplace Safety and Health Council | Best in workplace safety and health [10] |
| Award | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|
| RoSPA Awards | Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents | Health and safety achievement [11] |
| Health and Safety Awards | Building magazine | [12] |
| International Safety Awards Scheme | British Safety Council | Demonstrated commitment to occupational health, safety and wellbeing [13] |
| Award | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur B. Guise Medal | Society of Fire Protection Engineers | Eminent achievement in the advancement of the science and technology of fire protection engineering [14] |
| California Governor’s Employee Safety Awards | State of California | Individuals and groups who have provided outstanding health and safety to the state [15] |
| Edward J. Baier Technical Achievement Award | American Industrial Hygiene Association | Significant contribution to industrial hygiene [16] |
| Harry C. Bigglestone Award | Fire Technology magazine | Paper appearing in Fire Technology that best represents excellence in the communication of fire protection concepts [17] |
| Montana Governor’s Safety & Health Awards Program | State of Montana | Commitment to excellence in workplace safety and health [18] |
| New Jersey Governor’s Occupational Safety and Health Awards Program | New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development | Achievement in the prevention of workplace injury and illness [19] |
| Occupational Excellence Achievement Award | National Safety Council | Organizations with injury and illness records better than or equal to 50% of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for their NAICS code [20] |
| OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs | Occupational Safety and Health Administration | Employers and workers in the private industry and federal agencies who have implemented effective safety and health management systems and maintain injury and illness rates below national Bureau of Labor Statistics averages for their respective industries [21] |
| Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Safety Excellence | Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry | Comprehensive safety practices in the workplace; successful employer-employee joint safety programs, which result in the achievement of safety excellence [22] |
| Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards | American Psychological Association | Workplace practices in employee involvement, health and safety, employee growth and development, work-life balance, employee recognition and communication [23] |
| Robert W. Campbell Award | National Safety Council | Companies that achieve business excellence through the integration of EHS (Environment, Health and Safety) management into business operations [24] |
| Safe-In-Sound award | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Hearing Conservation Association | Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention [25] |
| Workplace Safety Awards | National Safety Council | Various categories [26] |
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is a regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces. The United States Congress established the agency under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, which President Richard M. Nixon signed into law on December 29, 1970. OSHA's mission is to "assure safe and healthy working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance." The agency is also charged with enforcing a variety of whistleblower statutes and regulations. OSHA's workplace safety inspections have been shown to reduce injury rates and injury costs without adverse effects on employment, sales, credit ratings, or firm survival.
Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her employer for the tort of negligence. The trade-off between assured, limited coverage and lack of recourse outside the worker compensation system is known as "the compensation bargain.” One of the problems that the compensation bargain solved is the problem of employers becoming insolvent as a result of high damage awards. The system of collective liability was created to prevent that and thus to ensure security of compensation to the workers.
An occupational injury is bodily damage resulting from working. The most common organs involved are the spine, hands, the head, lungs, eyes, skeleton, and skin. Occupational injuries can result from exposure to occupational hazards, such as temperature, noise, insect or animal bites, blood-borne pathogens, aerosols, hazardous chemicals, radiation, and occupational burnout.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is a British charity that aims to save lives and prevent life-changing injuries which occur as a result of accidents. In the past, it has successfully campaigned on issues of road safety, including playing an integral role in the introduction of drink-drive legislation, the compulsory wearing of seatbelts and the ban on handheld mobile phones while driving, as well as on issues of occupational health and safety.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness. NIOSH is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Despite its name, it is not part of either the National Institutes of Health nor OSHA. Its current director is John Howard.
Occupational noise is the amount of acoustic energy received by an employee's auditory system when they are working in the industry. Occupational noise, or industrial noise, is often a term used in occupational safety and health, as sustained exposure can cause permanent hearing damage. Occupational noise is considered an occupational hazard traditionally linked to loud industries such as ship-building, mining, railroad work, welding, and construction, but can be present in any workplace where hazardous noise is present.
Environment, health and safety (EHS) is the set that studies and implements the practical aspects of protecting the environment and maintaining health and safety at occupation. In simple terms it is what organizations must do to make sure that their activities do not cause harm to anyone. Commonly, quality - quality assurance and quality control - is adjoined to form the company division known as HSQE.
Workers' Memorial Day, also known as International Workers' Memorial Day or International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured, takes place annually around the world on April 28, an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured, or made unwell by their work. In Canada, it is commemorated as the National Day of Mourning.
An occupational hazard is a hazard experienced in the workplace. This encompasses many types of hazards, including chemical hazards, biological hazards (biohazards), psychosocial hazards, and physical hazards. In the United States, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conduct workplace investigations and research addressing workplace health and safety hazards resulting in guidelines. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) establishes enforceable standards to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses. In the EU, a similar role is taken by EU-OSHA.
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is a global organisation for health and safety professionals, based in the UK.
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) is an independent departmental corporation under Schedule II of the Financial Administration Act and is accountable to Parliament through the Minister of Labour.
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division is a state government agency that regulates workplace safety and health in the U.S. state of Oregon. Oregon OSHA is a division of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services and operates under a formal state-plan agreement with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Oregon OSHA's regulatory authority comes from the Oregon Safe Employment Act (OSEA); its jurisdiction covers most public and private sector workplaces in the state. Oregon OSHA's expressed mission is "to advance and improve workplace safety and health for all workers in Oregon."
WorkSafe Victoria is the trading name of the Victorian WorkCover Authority, a statutory authority of the state government of Victoria, Australia.
Prevention through design (PtD), also called safety by design usually in Europe, is the concept of applying methods to minimize occupational hazards early in the design process, with an emphasis on optimizing employee health and safety throughout the life cycle of materials and processes. It is a concept and movement that encourages construction or product designers to "design out" health and safety risks during design development. The process also encourages the various stakeholders within a construction project to be collaborative and share the responsibilities of workers' safety evenly. The concept supports the view that along with quality, programme and cost; safety is determined during the design stage. It increases the cost-effectiveness of enhancements to occupational safety and health.
Safe Work Australia is an Australian Government statutory agency established in 2009 under the Safe Work Australia Act 2008. Their primary responsibility is to improve work health and safety and workers’ compensation arrangements across Australia.
A safety syringe is a syringe with a built-in safety mechanism to reduce the risk of needlestick injuries to healthcare workers and others. The needle on a safety syringe can be detachable or permanently attached. On some models, a sheath is placed over the needle, whereas in others the needle retracts into the barrel. Safety needles serve the same functions as safety syringes, but the protective mechanism is a part of the needle rather than the syringe. Legislation requiring safety syringes or equivalents has been introduced in many nations since needlestick injuries and re-use prevention became the focus of governments and safety bodies.
Occupational safety and health (OSH) or occupational health and safety (OHS), also known simply as occupational health or occupational safety, is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work. These terms also refer to the goals of this field, so their use in the sense of this article was originally an abbreviation of occupational safety and health program/department etc. OSH is related to the fields of occupational medicine and occupational hygiene.
Hierarchy of hazard control is a system used in industry to minimize or eliminate exposure to hazards. It is a widely accepted system promoted by numerous safety organizations. This concept is taught to managers in industry, to be promoted as standard practice in the workplace. It has also been used to inform public policy, in fields such as road safety. Various illustrations are used to depict this system, most commonly a triangle.
The Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Award is an occupational health and safety award that was established in 2007 through a partnership between the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA). In 2018, the partnership was extended to include the Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC).
The law for workplace bullying is given below for each country in detail. Further European countries with concrete antibullying legislation are Belgium, France, and The Netherlands.