Last chance to enter competition
15 November 2010
You’ve got just over two weeks left to
enter the ‘Innovation in safety – small business award’, a new
competition from IOSH and the HSE to find innovative ideas to help
improve health and safety in small businesses.
Enter today to be in with a chance of winning £1,000 and a free
two-day pass to the IOSH 2011 Conference and Exhibition, the
largest health and safety conference in the UK. If you win, you’ll
get industry-wide recognition and be promoted on the IOSH and HSE
websites, in SHP and Connect, and on the IOSH
channel on YouTube. The winner will be announced on 01 March 2011
and formally presented with their award on 15 March 2011 at the
IOSH 2011 Conference and Exhibition at ExCeL, London.
IOSH Chief Executive Rob Strange said:
“We need to find new ideas to help improve
health and safety in small businesses, because there are around 4.8
million small businesses in the UK, with around 13.7 million people
working for them. Just because a business is small doesn’t mean
it’s low risk – for example, 94 per cent of agricultural jobs are
in businesses with fewer than 50 workers, yet this sector has one
of the highest rates of death and serious injury in the country. To
cut accidents and ill health in small businesses, we need to find
new ways to keep people healthy and safe – without getting in the
way of the job.”
The award was set up by Judith Donovan CBE, board director of
the HSE, who has invested her cash prize for winning the IOSH/Sypol
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 to fund this competition. She
won the award for her efforts to make small businesses more aware
of the need for health and safety and the importance of taking care
of their employees.
Judith said:
“We’re looking for ‘Dragons’ Den’-type moments where we actually
get new ideas. The types of ideas we’re looking for could be
anything from motivational and psychological techniques to get
people to understand that they’re looking after their lives and
their health, to new systems and gadgets to help cut costs. Your
idea has to be tried and tested – one that’s delivered genuine
improvements in health and safety.”
This competition is open to IOSH Chartered Members in the UK.
You may be a consultant or trainer working with small businesses,
or an in-house professional dealing with small firms as part of
your supply chain. Your idea has to be original, and must already
have been put into practice in a small business with proven
results.
Find out more about the competition
and how to enter. The deadline to enter is 01 December 2010.
You’ve got to be in it to win it – Good luck!