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StateCover invites Members to enter the 2025 StateCover Awards, acknowledging excellence in keeping your people safe, well and working.

 

Entries close Friday, 28 February 2025.

 

Nominate your organisation for projects, initiatives or programs that have been implemented within the last two years in one or more of the following three award categories: Safety, Wellbeing and Return to Work.

Winners from each category will receive $5,000.

SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY*

*Conditions of entry apply.

Categories

Safety

Best safety initiative

Tell us in 1,000 words or less about a safety project, initiative or program that your organisation has implemented within the last two years.

You are welcome to include attachments and supporting documents; these are not included in the word limit.

Submission criteria

  1. Outline the WHS issue, how it was identified and how it influenced the safety initiative.
  2. Detail the safety initiative that was developed. Include commencement and completion dates as well as evidence of resource allocation – financial, human, physical.
  3. Describe how your organisation’s submission demonstrates an ongoing commitment to the safety of workers.
  4. Outline and provide evidence of how successful the initiative was and how it has improved WHS outcomes.
  5. Explain the ability for the initiative to have a sustained impact at your organisation.

Wellbeing

Best strategic and integrated approach to wellbeing

Tell us in 1,000 words or less how you implemented your wellbeing strategy that has commenced within the last two years. Consider the Wellbeing Strategy Model.

You are welcome to include attachments and supporting documents; these are not included in the word limit.

Submission criteria

  1. Describe and provide evidence of the specific approach your organisation has taken to create a wellbeing strategy.
  2. Demonstrate and provide evidence of planning and implementation of the wellbeing strategy.
  3. Provide evidence of the effectiveness and sustainability of the strategy and how it demonstrates your organisation’s ongoing commitment to supporting workers’ wellbeing.

Return to Work

Best strategy resulting in measurable return to work improvement

Tell us in 1,000 words or less about your best strategy or approach that demonstrates successful management of a claim, with a focus on an innovative return to and/or recovery at work over the last two years.

You are welcome to include attachments and supporting documents; these are not included in the word limit.

Submission criteria

  1. Describe the specific strategy or approach implemented to support a worker’s recovery and return to work. Include how it was innovative, start and completion dates, and evidence of resource allocation – financial, human, physical, etc.
  2. Outline how your organisation managed collaboration and communication throughout the claim, ensuring effective coordination between all stakeholders.
  3. Provide evidence of the effectiveness of this strategy or approach, describing how it produced sustainable outcomes and demonstrated your organisation’s ongoing commitment to supporting workers in their recovery and return to work.

SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY

 

Conditions of entry

  1. This promotion is conducted by StateCover Mutual Limited (ABN 36 090 394 755) of Level 3, 28 Margaret St, Sydney, NSW 2000 (“Promoter”). Entry into this promotion is free.
  2. To be an eligible entrant, you must be a StateCover Mutual Member. A nominated employee representative of a StateCover Member will submit one or more entries on behalf of the Member.
  3. Entrants are to prepare submissions with a maximum word count of 1,000 words in relation to one of the following topics:
    1. best safety initiative;
    2. best strategy resulting in measurable return to work improvement over the past two years; or
    3. best strategic and integrated approach to wellbeing over the past two years.
  4. Entries are to be submitted electronically only.
  5. Entries that do not meet the acceptance criteria, which are published on the Promoter’s website, or exceed the word count will not be accepted.
  6. This promotion commences at 9:00am AEDT on Tuesday 10 December 2024 and closes at 10:00am AEDST on Friday 28 February 2025 (the “Promotional Period”). The Promoter is not responsible for lost, late, damaged, misdirected, incomplete or ineligible entries.
  7. This promotion can be entered by the nominated employee representative completing entry form and any attachments.
  8. Entries will be judged against the acceptance criteria as assessed by a panel of judges selected by the Promoter, with the best entry in each category as determined by the judges (“Winning Entries”) receiving first prize respectively.
  9. The prize winners will receive an allocation of $5,000 to be spent specifically on initiatives outlined in their submission. Prizes will be redeemed by submitting invoices for initiative spend for reimbursement by StateCover. The total prize pool is valued at $15,000. Prizes are not transferable, exchangeable, or redeemable to cash.
  10. The judges’ decision is final and binding, and no correspondence will be entered into.
  11. Winning entries will be announced at the StateCover Seminar Dinner on 6 May 2025. If for any reason they are unable to be contacted or cannot accept the prize at or by the time stipulated by the Promoter, then the prize will be forfeited and will not be redeemable for cash.
  12. All entries, by whatever method, submitted become the property of the Promoter. Entries will not be returned to any entrant. As a condition of entering this Promotion, each entrant assigns all of their rights, title and interest (including copyright) in and to their entry to the Promoter. The Promoter is entitled to use any entry for any purposes at its discretion, including using the entry for future promotional and publicity purposes. Entrants indemnify the Promoter in respect of any infringement or alleged infringement of the rights (including copyright) of any person, arising out of the Promoter’s use of the entry. Entrants consent to any act or omission of the Promoter that might otherwise breach the entrant’s moral rights in the entry.
  13. Except for any liability that cannot by law be excluded, including the Non-Excludable Guarantees, the Promoter (including its respective officers, employees and agents) is not responsible for and excludes all liability (including negligence), for any personal injury; or any loss or damage (including loss of opportunity); whether direct, indirect, special or consequential, arising in any way out of: (a) any technical difficulties or equipment malfunction (whether or not under the Promoter’s control); (b) any theft, unauthorised access or third party interference; (c) any entry or Prize claim that is late, lost, altered, damaged or misdirected (whether or not after their receipt by the Promoter) due to any reason beyond the reasonable control of the Promoter; (d) any variation in Prize value to that stated in these Conditions of Entry; (e) any tax liability incurred by an Eligible Entrant; or (f) use of the Prize.
  14. The Promoter collects personal information for the purpose of conducting this Promotion and may, for this purpose, disclose such personal information to third parties, including but not limited to its agents, contractors, service providers, prize suppliers and, as required, to Australian regulatory authorities. If you do not provide us with your personal information, you will not be an Eligible Entrant and cannot be considered for this Promotion. Entry is conditional on Entrants providing their personal information. The Promoter will collect, store, use and disclose personal information as set out in its Privacy Policy. In addition to any use that may be outlined in the Promoter’s Privacy Policy, the Promoter may, for an indefinite period, unless you advise us not to, use the personal information for promotional, marketing, publicity, research and profiling purposes, including sending electronic messages or telephoning the entrant. The Privacy Policy contains information about how entrants may opt out, access, update or correct their personal information, how entrants may complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles or any other applicable law and how those complaints will be dealt with.
  15. The laws in force in New South Wates apply to this promotion to the exclusion of any other law. Entrants submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales.
  16. For any queries regarding this promotion, please contact Safety & Wellbeing with StateCover, Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm AEST/AEDST, by email memberservices@statecover.net.au.

It was a wonderful night celebrating the StateCover Awards and the work of our Members. Congratulations to Cessnock, Singleton and Port Stephens for all the work they do to keep their people safe, well and working.

SAM FULLER, CEO, STATECOVER MUTUAL 2023