2027 Safety Excellence Categories
Celebrate your JHSC, your company, or a leader.
The Safety Excellence Awards recognize BC manufacturing and food processing businesses for innovation and excellence in health and safety. Companies, teams, and leaders from across the province compete for these prestigious awards.
Individual Safety Excellence Awards
Recognizing individuals whose leadership, dedication, and commitment make a meaningful difference in workplace health and safety.
Eligibility
Individual senior leader or safety professional
Nominations
Self-nominations are not accepted.
Soaring Eagle Leadership Award
Criteria:
This award recognizes an executive leader or business owner who demonstrates exemplary and inspiring leadership and a commitment to health and safety.
Apex Award
Criteria:
This award recognizes an individual working to improve workplace health and safety demonstrating exceptional:
- commitment
- passion
- dedication
- action
The individual receiving this award will reflect a commitment to improving workplace health and safety throughout their career.
Individuals who qualify for this award may also qualify for the Maureen Shaw Safety Legacy Award.
Maureen Shaw Safety Legacy Award
Criteria:
This award, presented in honour of Canadian OHS pioneer and advocate Maureen Shaw, recognizes an individual working to improve workplace health and safety who demonstrates exceptional:
- commitment
- passion
- dedication
- action
The recipient will also receive a $2,500 cash award from the Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC to support ongoing professional development in health and safety.
*Individuals qualifying for this award may also qualify for the Apex Award.
Team Safety Excellence Awards
Celebrating teams and organizations advancing workplace safety through leadership, innovation, and collaboration.
Eligibility
MSABC member or OSSE certified organizations.
Nominations
Employee nominations are accepted and encouraged.
Joint Health and Safety Committee Excellence Award
Criteria:
Central themes of the Joint Health and Safety Committee Excellence Award:
- How does the team champion health and safety in your workplace? (Please provide examples)
- What impact has the team made on the organization’s safety performance and culture?
- How do workers in the organization feel about safety?
Fantastic Four Risk Control Leader Award
Criteria:
This award recognizes a company for implementing leading solutions in the following four key manufacturing risk areas:
- Musculoskeletal Injuries (MSIs)
- Machine-Related Injuries (i.e. Safeguarding and Lockout)
- Slips, Trips, and Falls (i.e. Housekeeping)
- Safety and Business Culture
Manufacturing Safety Innovator Award
Criteria:
This award recognizes a company for innovation in safety based in any or all of the following categories:
- OHS Management Systems
- Health & Safety Training
- Wellness Programs
- Safety Culture
Small Business People First Award
Criteria:
This award recognizes a small business that has:
- Demonstrated excellence in achieving health and safety goals above and beyond regulatory requirements
- Made a positive impact on workplace culture
- Shows leadership support for health and safety as a core value.
Award criteria includes:
- How does the company’s safety program champion a healthier and safer workplace?
- What is the impact of the company’s safety program on employee experience and workplace culture?
Culture of Courage Award
Criteria:
This award recognizes a company that has demonstrated success in fostering a culture of psychological health and safety, where:
- Everyone understands the policies and safe work procedures supporting a respectful workplace
- Employees clearly understand their roles and company expectations
- Everyone is treated fairly and equitably
- Everyone has a voice, with channels for employee feedback (such as individual and team meetings, staff surveys, all-staff meetings, town halls, or roundtables),
- Leadership encourages new ideas, concerns, and perspectives
- Leaders respond to all employee suggestions, issues, and ideas in a timely and respectful way
- Employees are encouraged to experiment and mistakes are treated as learning opportunities
- Employees feel safe to speak up, supported in their roles, and recognized for their contribution
- Employees are trained on psychological safety topics