The MPA’s Health and Safety Awards 2022 are now open and calling for entries. These long established and highly acclaimed awards play a pivotal role in preventing serious injuries and fatalities within the mineral products industry.

They enable us to learn about and share the innovations and good practice that members have pioneered to improve health, safety and wellbeing in the workplace. They also provide a unique opportunity for members to recognise and celebrate the vital role that individuals – their staff, including young leaders – have played in achieving a safer and healthier work environment.

MPA urges its members and those working with them to submit their entries for these awards. The scheme has been evolved, with members, for members, to encourage submissions from across all product groups and members in the MPA. Any organisation working closely with members within the supply chain of the mineral products industry is free to enter 8 Topic Awards that were introduced last year. The simple to complete entry forms and briefing notes can be downloaded from the Safequarry website.

The awards include the following categories:

• 8 Topic Awards – recognising health & safety innovations at different stages of activity within the production and distribution of mineral products – open to all.
• ‘The Fatal 6’ Award – recognising an exceptional innovation or good practice to eliminate a high consequence hazard associated with ‘The Fatal 6’ by an MPA member.
• The Eurobitume Award – recognising an exceptional – H&S delete – innovation or good practice involving bitumen/asphalt or contract surfacing by an MPA member.
• John Crabbe Award – for a MPA member with over 250 employees which has achieved an outstanding performance in health & safety.
• Sir Frank Davies Award – for a MPA member with 250 or fewer employees which has achieved an outstanding performance in health & safety.
• Young Leader Award – for an MPA member wanting to recognise the leadership or outstanding contribution shown by an individual/s aged under 30, in driving forward changes in their organisation to make it a safer and healthier place to work.
• Individual Awards – for an MPA member wanting to recognise the contribution made by an individual/s in making their organisation a safer and healthier place to work.

Closing date for entries is 20^th May.

Please feel free to contact Tony Entwistle (tony.entwistle@mineralproducts.org) or David Yelland entries@mpahsawards.org for more information.