15 Oct Ryobi Aluminium Casting (UK) Ltd. wins Supreme Safety Awards
Ryobi Aluminium Casting (UK) Ltd. wins All Ireland Supreme Safety Awards 2024
The 33rd National Irish Safety Organisation / Northern Ireland Safety Group (NISO/NISG) Annual Safety Awards took place on 11 October 2024 at a special ceremony in Killarney at which the Supreme Safety Award winner for 2024, sponsored by Irving Oil Whitegate Refinery, was announced as Ryobi Aluminium Casting (UK) Ltd.
The Supreme Safety Award is presented to the organisation that has shown consistently good or continuously improving health and safety performance over a number of years and an outstanding contribution to occupational safety, health and welfare during the previous year. The Awards are highly valued and regarded among health and safety professionals throughout the island of Ireland.
Other awards presented on the night include the Safety Representative of the Year Award 2024 in association with The Cpl Institute. The joint winners of the Safety Representative of the Year Award for 2024 were Mihail Cazac, Shareridge Civil Engineering and Derek Russell, Collen Construction. The Runner Up prize was awarded to Ronan Molloy, Baxter Healthcare.
The Healthy Workplace Award, sponsored by Healthy Ireland, and the Occupational Health Award, supported by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) and the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) were won by John GRAHAM Construction Ltd.
The Healthy Workplace Award recognises the commitment of workplaces who promote health and wellbeing as a core element of the Health and Safety agenda.
The Occupational Health Award is designed for organisations who demonstrate clear evidence that they manage a clear and proactively structured occupational health programme for their employees.
The Driving for Work Award was won by Actavo (Ireland). The Driving for Work Award requires entrants to demonstrate evidence of policy, planning, practice, performance measurement and performance review in relation to driving for work:.
The awards, which demonstrate the positive and proactive culture of safety management in organisations, are supported by the Construction Industry Federation, Health and Safety Authority, Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, Healthy Ireland and Irving Oil Whitegate Refinery.
The 60th Annual NISO Health and Safety Conference, which preceded the safety awards ceremony, was sponsored by Safety Direct (Main sponsor); EHS International, Glenveagh Properties plc, Occupli and Winthrop Technologies Ltd. (Gold Plus sponsors); DB Schenker and GMC Utilities Group (Gold Sponsors); Jones Engineering Group and Trench Control (Silver Plus Sponsors); WSS Warehouse Solutions (Silver Sponsor) and Ayrton Group (Bronze Sponsor).
Conor O’Brien, CEO, Health and Safety Authority along with Fergal McKevitt, NISO President and Wendy Beatty, Chair, NISG, presented awards to over 100 organisations from all around the island of Ireland. The Gold Award was won by Winthrop Technologies Ltd., the Silver Award by Actavo (Ireland) and the Bronze Award by John Sisk and Son (Holdings) Ltd.
The Excellence in Safety Award, which is presented to organisations that consistently achieved a high standard safety award for more than fifteen years, representing their continuous commitment to health and safety in their organisation, was won by Actavo (Ireland) Ltd., Designer Group, John Sisk and Son (Holdings) Ltd., Jones Engineering Group and PM Group.
A number of Exceptional High Achiever awards were presented to organisations that consistently achieved a high standard safety award for more than ten years, representing their continuous commitment to health and safety in their organisation. Recipients of this award include Altrad Services Ireland, Aura Holohan Group, BAM Ireland, Baxter Healthcare irish Manufacturing Operations, Bon Secours Hospital Dublin, Cork City Council, Fingal County Council, GEA Process Technologies Ireland Ltd., GMC Utilities Group Ltd., John Cradock Ltd., John Paul Construction, Leo Lynch, Longford County Council, Mainline Group, Merit Medical Ireland Ltd., O’Connor Sutton Cronin, P&D Lydon Ltd., W & H Alexander Ltd, Walls Construction Limited and Weltec Engineering Ltd.
Supported by the Construction Industry Federation (CIF), the construction category awards saw the following organisations emerge as winners: the President’s Award for Construction was won by McAleer and Rushe; Utility Services Award, Circet Ireland; Specialist Contactor Award, Mivan Ltd.; House Building Award, Glenveagh Properties PLC; Civil Engineering Award, Coffey; Consulting Engineers Award, GEA Process Technologies Ireland Ltd.; Industrial / Commercial Award, Weltec Engineering Ltd.; Specialist Contractor Award, MJM Marine Ltd. and the Building Services Award, Designer Group.
Expressions of interest for the 2025 safety awards can be emailed to awards@niso.ie. Register with NISO / NISG to receive details of the 2025 Awards when available.
The full list of awards winners for 2024 can be found at: safetyawards.ie