Assessment and judging
There will be separate judging panels for each of the awards. The judging panels consist of representatives from business, industry, unions and the public sector. The panels will assess the nominations over a three-stage process that will involve the assessment of written submissions, on-site inspections of short-listed entries and selection of winning entries.
Inspection reports will be used by the judging panels to select the winning entries. On-site inspections of short-listed entries will be conducted by a Workplace Health and Safety Queensland inspector from the local area. If specialist/technical staff are required and not located in the local area, alternate arrangements will be made and may include video conferencing with specialist/technical staff and other audit processes.
Winners of the Work Safe Awards will be announced during Work Safe Week, which runs from 19 to 25 October 2008. The judging panels may award winning and highly commended entries but reserve the right not to allocate an award in a particular category where, in their opinion, there are no entries of sufficient merit.
The winners of the Work Safe Awards will be automatically entered into the national awards run by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations’ Office of the Australian Safety and Compensation Council.*
* Except winners of category five which is not part of the national awards.
Last updated 22 July 2008