National Excellence in HSE Awards 2024
RECOGNIZING BUSINESS SUCCESS THROUGH EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE
The National H.S.E. Awards has become the de facto opportunity for businesses to benchmark their health, safety, and environmental excellence.
AMCHAM T&T firmly believes that these awards not only highlight excellent performance in H.S.E. but also encourage companies to implement and uphold the highest standards of H.S.E. management and practice while always striving for continuous improvement and excellence.
These Awards are intended to promote the implementation of best practice H.S.E. Management Systems, which embody the classical model for continual improvement through the ‘Plan–Do–Check–Act’ cycle.
This year we intend to have four (4) award categories:
• Excellence in H.S.E. Award
• H.S.E. Evolution Award
• Outstanding H.S.E. Project
• Towards Operational Resiliency
Applicants must submit an initial screening form for review by the judges. Upon approval, applicants would then be invited to submit a presentation and supporting documents for the final stage of judging.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF SCREENING FORMS:
Friday May 31st, 2024
HSE AWARD CATEGORIES
Excellence in HSE Award
This award will recognize successful business models from organizations that uphold HSE as a key business value and excel in both HSE and business performance. This award aims to:
• Recognize entities that have HSE well integrated as a key organizational value and in which measurable achievement in HSE performance is linked to productivity and profitability.
• Establish a validated process by which companies can measure the performance of their HSE systems against well-tested and internationally accepted systems.
• Through a rigorous systematic review process, capture and evaluate successes, and as applicable, share HSE lessons learned.
• Foster the sharing of leading HSE management systems and best practices for educational purposes.
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H.S.E. EVOLUTION AWARD
This Award is a modification to our previous Most Improved Award.
This Award will recognize changes made that fundamentally enhance the Health, System and Environmental system performance of the organization in a transformational manner. Entries may include but are not limited to one or more of the following:
● Product or process-based solution
● Engineering/Technological innovation
● A dynamic training program
● An awareness raising activity
● Other risk control measures that reduce the risk of work-related injury, illness, and safety culture.
● Other measures that reduce the risk of psychological exposures and promote mental health.
● Environmental stewardship, preservation and awareness
Furthermore, this award recognizes the establishment, improvement and/or maintenance of HSE practices by a team, focus groups or workplace advisory committees.
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TOWARDS OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE
Major disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have clearly underscored the business value of operational resilience in their organizational DNA. Operational Resilience is now key to business survival in the face of rapidly changing environments and threats. Leveraging aspects of both business continuity and operational resilience enables organizations to mitigate risks more effectively, recover critical functionality, and thrive in altered circumstances. To build a safe, enduring business, companies need both continuity and resilience.
Building Operational Resilience - Considerations for Evaluation
The Award will consider the state of preparation to respond to a disruption and the state of enhanced resilience through business continuity management processes as defined by ISO 22301:2019. It will evaluate the road map to enhancing resilience within an established business continuity management framework. The thrust is preparing for crises/disruptions by enhancing resilience as defined by ISO standards and adopting business continuity management disciplines. The Award would seek to stimulate and enhance resilience by focusing on the ability to respond and adapt, within the corporate culture.
Key principles for building an Operational Resilience Framework:
1. Define Key Business Services / Critical Economic Functions (CEFs);
2. Set Impact Tolerance and Risk Metrics.
3. Understand Dependencies - Upstream and Downstream.
4. Leverage Scenarios for Potential Points of Failure.
5. Communicate the Plan and Stakeholder Map.
6. Drive resilience across the extended third-party ecosystem.
7. Build resilience into the organization’s culture, both internally and across the extended third-party ecosystem.
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Outstanding HSE Project
Project Category
This prestigious award seeks to recognize and inspire entities who are committed to forging the path towards HSE excellence by implementation of a project. This project must have been completed and resulted in significant and sustainable improvement in any one or more elements of the organization’s Health, Safety, Environment, and Employee/Stakeholder Wellness.
Projects must relate to occupational health, safety and environmental activities in the workplace, facility, contractors’ workplace, surrounding community, or have benefits to the national community. The project must achieve specific, positive HSE impacts which are measurable and/or verifiable. The project must serve to advance the stakeholders:
1. In a manner that is beyond legal compliance requirement.
2. In a manner goes beyond the operational norm of the organization.
3. In a manner that enhances the current HSE elements of the operation.
The ideal project is scalable and sustainable. Projects can cover any/all the following areas: Operational, Occupational and Outreach. These can be internal or external to the company.
Criteria
The criteria takes into consideration the range of ventures that can be considered projects. However, the project should contain the basic tenets as listed below:
1. The project must have a defined start and end date. The project should be completed by May 2024 to be eligible for judging with a minimum of one-month KPI information to support the submission.
2. The project should specify an expected outcome which is measurable.
3. The project should specify the persons and/or groups expected to be positively impacted.
4. The project should enhance HSE metrics of the stakeholders listed in the synopsis.
5. Enhancement of HSE metrics must be accompanied by documentation, data, statistics, and verifiable and traceable information.
6. Consideration will be given to projects which are able to be scaled, repeated nationally and/or globally and/or are sustainable.
7. Aspects of the project such as innovation will assist in the ranking in making determination for future consideration or determining a winner.
8. Organizations will compete for awards according to the size of the entity (i.e., Small, Medium, and Large) within the following Sectors:
- Energy
- Manufacturing
- Services
9. For a larger project consisting of various phases; companies are encouraged to enter the completed phases in this category. Please note those phases with completed milestones and measurable data will be eligible for consideration. Evaluation criteria will include the project's scalability and sustainability, with points granted accordingly. It's essential to emphasize that while the overall project may have its specific objectives, each phase of the project should also have its distinct set of objectives.
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2023 WINNERS
Click to view the WINNERS of the 13th Annual National Excellence in HSE Awards 2023