Health, Safety and Wellbeing

The Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards for Health, Safety and Wellbeing (formerly the Occupational Health and Safety Awards) recognise individuals and teams who have made an outstanding contribution by implementing innovative and exciting ideas in the area of health, safety and/or wellbeing at Monash.

Award Themes

The Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards recognise staff whose contributions to the University have gone beyond the regular scope of their roles to demonstrate significant and sustained achievement.

To be considered the nominee's contribution to health, safety and/or wellbeing must go beyond the usual scope of their position at Monash, and must exceed the role of a volunteer in a program or initiative.

Nominations should focus on one or more of the following themes:
  • Fostering cross-university collaboration to implement an innovative health and/or safety strategy to improve the University’s work or study environment
  • Implemented a health and safety initiative resulting in a significant reduction in incident or injury rates
  • Fostering a positive health, safety and/or wellbeing culture to achieve effective outcomes for the Monash community
  • Successfully promoting an occupational health initiative - this award theme is in memory of Helen Powell.

Award Criteria

Nominations should address the following criteria:

  • Excellence in Health, Safety and/or Wellbeing

    Describe the achievements of the nominated individual or team in relation to the themes above and outline how the nominee/s demonstrated innovation going beyond the scope of their role/s.

  • Impact

    Describe the positive impact the nominee/s achieved and the extent their contributions benefitted staff, students or the broader Monash community.

  • Culture (Impact 2030)

    Nominations that demonstrate one or more of the culture values articulated in the University’s Impact 2030 strategic plan will be highly regarded. The nomination should reference how the nominee/s has/have aligned with the value/s of discovering, learning, purposeful, collaborative, honest and/or fair.

Nomination

Submit a Nomination

‘Nominations in the Health, Safety and Wellbeing categories should be guided by the above Award Themes and Award Criteria, as well as the overall Awards Eligibility.

Nomination Form