International Safety Awards 2025

These awards recognise overall ‘best in class’ submissions to the International Safety Awards by industry sector. This is a great way to stand out amongst peers and encourages best practice.

Sector Award categories are:   

• Art and culture – museums, galleries 
• Construction and property activities  
• Consultancy and advisory 
• Defence
• Education 
• Financial
• Gas
• Health and social care    
• Hospitality and catering  
• IT  
• Leisure and sports clubs  
• Local government  
• Manufacturing – Automotive, Ancillaries   
• Manufacturing – Chemicals, Speciality Chemicals, Paints  
• Manufacturing – Electrical & Electronics    
• Manufacturing – FMCG   
• Manufacturing – Metals   
• Manufacturing – Pharmaceuticals / Healthcare   
• Manufacturing – Textiles & Garments   
• Media  
• Mining and quarrying  
• Not for profit    
• Oil  
• Onshore major hazard   
• Other Property Activities - Real Estate - Property/Facility Management (other than Construction/Development)  
• Power & Utilities – Non-Renewables  
• Power & Utilities – Renewables  
• Public services  
• Retail  
• Scientific and technical services  
• Storage / Warehousing  
• Transportation / Logistics  
• Wholesale and distribution 

All International Safety Award applicants are entered into this award, provided there is a significant number of applications from the same country at distinction level. The highest scoring and best overall application will be awarded. 

This award is for organisations with 50 or more participating sites and recognises the site(s) with the most outstanding applications. 

This award recognises an organisation that has used climate change risk assessment and vulnerability modelling to identify and plan for future adaptation strategies to a changing climate.   

This award recognises women that are breaking through and shaping future leadership in the health, safety, wellbeing or the environmental management world. 

This new award is voted for by the Trustees of British Safety Council and given to people who have made an outstanding contribution to workplace health, safety and wellbeing throughout their career. 

This award recognises efforts taken by an organisation to improve its road safety through the positive impact of new initiatives. 

This award recognises efforts to improve the overall HSW culture with an emphasis on demonstrated leadership efforts through the organisation

Rewarding leadership and strategic vision of CEOs who have made a vital contribution to health and safety of their business and to the wider society during 2023.  This award recognises how an individual CEO takes an active role in aligning and championing their organisation's health, safety and wellbeing interests with their internal and external stakeholders. 

The Health, Safety and Wellbeing Ambassador of the year Award recognises an employee who, in your opinion, has played a significant role to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of colleagues and others.

The Team of the Year Award recognises the outstanding achievements resulting in a significant improvement to health, safety or wellbeing from a collaboration of stakeholders which may include members of the organisation, suppliers, subcontractors and/or the wider community.

Recognition for an organisation or a team of individuals who have developed and run a campaign in 2023 that has made a significant impact on the health, safety or wellbeing in the workplace.

This award recognises and rewards those organisations that have demonstrated a proactive and effective approach to improving employee wellbeing.

This category is for organisations that have significantly changed or transformed any aspect of health, safety or wellbeing to a significant extent through the use of information. Applicants will be asked to describe the transformation, how it was planned, what information was used to help achieve the transformation and what positive impact it has had on the organisation.

This award recognises organisations that have gone the extra mile to seize health, safety or wellbeing opportunities resulting from a crisis.