2025 Health, Safety and Wellbeing Award Finalists

This award is open to a company of any size that demonstrate a new idea or initiative to drive improvements in health and safety systems or behaviours, address or manage a specific hazard or risk, create a design solution to address a problem, or to improve productivity.

1. Beon Energy Solutions
2. Fulton Hogan
3. Traffic Safe NZ

This award is open to a company of any size and person in a leadership role where of any size where an initiative has been implemented that involves organisational leaders in driving health and safety performance through visible and active involvement in health and safety activities. This could include developing safety culture, making safety positive or demonstrating leadership.

1. Yolanda Oosthuizen – Horizon Energy Group
2. Rian Engelbrecht DEI - New Zealand Defense Force
3. Jamie Greentree - Kinetic Electrical Wellington

This award is for a team who has demonstrated an outstanding contribution to health and safety in construction. This award acknowledges the team who lights the spark in other people’s minds and inspires positive change and action in health and safety.

1. Canterbury Aluminium Ltd
2. Mason Clinic - Southbase
3. Tradestaff Group Ltd

This award is for an individual that has demonstrated an outstanding contribution to health and safety in construction. This award acknowledges the individual that lights the spark in other people’s minds and inspires positive change and action in health and safety.

1. Shelly Compston – Apprentice Training Trust
2. Mark Nicholas – Accent Construction
3. Glen Sturgess – Naylor Love

This award seeks to recognise a company, organisation, team or individual that has developed, implemented and championed outstanding approaches in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of construction workers, colleagues and friends.

1. Workforce Central Dunedin
2. Anita Teo-Tavita - Programmed
3. Tupore

This award seeks to recognise an individual who has been in the industry less than five years but in this time has shown promise and initiative, contributed significantly, and demonstrated the ability to inspire positive health and safety change in construction - a future safety leader.

1. Aimee Daw - Programmed
2. Fern Harper – Naylor Love
3. Fiona Brabant – Cook Brothers Construction