​WSH Awards 2024

The Awards are given to companies and individuals that have performed well in safety and health by implementing sound safety and health management systems.

About the WSH Awards

Presented by the WSH Council and supported by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), the annual WSH Awards recognise organisations and individuals who have achieved excellence in workplace safety and health. 

Why Apply

Winning the WSH Awards can help to:
• Improve your employees’ morale as their efforts to improve WSH are recognised;

• Increase visibility of your company as one that is morally and socially responsible, and enhance the corporate image of your company as a leader in WSH amongst industry peers; and

• Raise the credibility of your company and attract more business opportunities.

Award Categories 

The following categories are open for application for the WSH Awards 2024:

WSH Developer Awards
This award recognises developers who play an active role in ensuring good workplace safety and health practices among their contractors. For details of the application criteria and process, please refer to the WSH Developer Awards 2024 Application Guidelines

How to Apply
Submit the application for WSH Developer Awards 2024 online.

What Happens Next
All applications will be thoroughly assessed by the organiser. This includes verification and auditing of all submitted supporting documents, records and data. A visit to the applicant’s workplace may also be arranged.

All applicants will be notified of their results via email in mid-July 2024.



WSH Performance Awards (WSHPA)
This award recognises companies that have implemented sound safety and health management systems, and went to extraordinary lengths to safeguard their employees and contractors across all their worksites.

There are three types of WSH Performance Awards: Excellence, Gold and Silver.

Types of award
Description
Excellence Award • No workplace incident in the qualifying period.
• To be shortlisted for evaluation, applicant needs to be a recipient of the Gold Award for three or more years consecutively.     
Gold Award • No workplace incident in the qualifying period.
• To be shortlisted for evaluation, applicant needs to be a recipient of the Silver Award for three or more years consecutively.      
Silver Award • Good safety and health performance and systems.
Other factors will also be taken into consideration. For details of the application criteria and process, please refer to the WSH Performance Awards 2024 Application Guidelines

How to Apply
Submit the application for WSH Performance Awards 2024 online.

What Happens Next
All applications will be thoroughly assessed. This includes verification and auditing of all submitted supporting documents, records and data. A visit to the applicant’s workplace may also be arranged.

All applicants will be notified of their results via email in mid-July 2024.

 

Safety and Health Award Recognition for Projects (SHARP)
This award recognises large-scale projects or worksites that have good safety and health performance, and workplace safety and health management systems. Examples of winning projects in this award include shipyard projects, construction worksites and large projects within an organisation.

As applicants can only submit a single project for this category, organisations with multiple projects or worksites may apply for the Workplace Safety and Health Performance Awards (WSHPA) instead. You may apply for WSHPA for all of your projects and SHARP for a particular project. For details of the application criteria and process, please refer to the WSH SHARP Awards 2024 Application Guidelines

How to Apply
Submit the application for WSH SHARP Awards 2024 online.

What Happens Next
All applications will be thoroughly assessed. This includes verification and auditing of all submitted supporting documents, records and data. A visit to the applicant’s workplace may also be arranged.

All applicants will be notified of their results via email in mid-July 2024.

  

bizSAFE Partner Awards
This category recognises bizSAFE Partners that have been proactive and committed in bringing business partners on board the bizSAFE programme. For details of the application criteria and process, please refer to the bizSAFE Partner Award 2024 Application Guidelines.

How to Apply

Submit the application for bizSAFE Partner Award 2024 online.

What Happens Next
If your application is shortlisted, we will invite your company to showcase your efforts to a panel of judges. The judging session will take place between May and June 2024. We will also hold a briefing session for all shortlisted companies before the judging session.

 

bizSAFE Enterprise Exemplary Awards
This category recognises bizSAFE STAR Enterprises that have exemplary risk management and workplace safety and health (WSH) performance.

Companies that have won this award for three consecutive years will be conferred the Gold Award.

For details of the application criteria and process, please refer to the bizSAFE Enterprise Exemplary Award 2024 Application Guidelines.

How to Apply

Submit the application for bizSAFE Enterprise Exemplary Award 2024 online.

Download the Risk Management Implementation checklist for the on-site assessment.

What Happens Next
All applications will be thoroughly assessed. This includes verification and auditing of all submitted supporting documents, records and data. All applicants will be notified of their results via email in mid-July 2024

 



Important Dates

Qualifying Period: 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2023
Application Submission Deadline: 18 April 2024 (All supporting documents must be uploaded to OneDrive)
Awards Ceremony:  End-July 2024 (TBA)

Evaluation

All applications will be thoroughly assessed. This includes verification of all submitted supporting documents, records and data. A presentation, interview session and/or visit to the applicant’s workplace may also be arranged. 

Disqualification Before Announcement of Results

An application may be disqualified if a workplace accident with any of the following consequences occurs before the announcement of results:
• Fatal accident
• Major injury accident 
• Dangerous Occurrence (DO)

An application may also be disqualified if it contains inaccurate, false or misleading supporting documents, records or data, or if there is adverse reporting in the media pertaining to the applicant’s or nominating company’s workplace safety and health performance. 

An applicant who withdraws or amends the WSH Incident Report and/or an ongoing work injury claim during the period of application may be disqualified. An investigation will be conducted before the application can continue to be considered.

Terms and Conditions

By submitting an application, the applicant will be deemed to have read and understood the terms and conditions.

All applications must be submitted to the WSH Council before the submission deadline. Applications received after the submission deadline will not be accepted. The WSH Council will not be responsible or liable for any lost, late, mislaid, or incomplete applications as all such applications will be deemed invalid. 

Any application received via email, postal or delivery services will not be accepted.

Applicants may submit multiple applications to different Award categories. However, all submitted applications must be tailored to the requirements of each category.

The WSH Awards 2024 Committee reserves the right to reject any application without explanation or notice.

The WSH Awards 2024 Committee reserves the right to disqualify any application not accompanied by the appropriate or correct supporting documents or any application deemed to be inaccurate, false, or misleading. 

By submitting an application, the applicants give consent for their details to be shared with the judges and representatives of the respective industry associations. All awards applicants will be deemed to have consented to the transfer and sharing of their personal, company and project data and information for the purpose of administering and judging of the Awards.

All applicants will be notified of their results via email by mid-July 2024. The WSH Awards 2024 Committee’s decisions shall be final.

Award recipients will be officially announced during the Awards ceremony taking place in end-July 2024. 

The WSH Council will produce a media and publicity campaign highlighting the Awards, Award categories and recipients. All recipients agree to offer the WSH Council the exclusive right to use the content, images, and videos for the promotion of the Awards. In addition, all recipients give their consent for their exemplary safety and health management systems and initiatives to be featured in media interviews, articles or speeches. Select recipients may be approached to speak at WSH-related events organised by the WSH Council and/or its partners. 

All recipients grant the WSH Council the exclusive right to use and reproduce their name, trademark and company logo for pre-event, onsite and post-event marketing of the Awards.

The WSH Council reserves the right to alter or reschedule the Awards, the Awards ceremony and/or to change the judging panel and/or these terms at its own discretion, at any time and without notice.