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WSA award winners declared
HSC has announced the project details of the 11 second round winners¹ of the Workers' Safety Adviser (WSA) Challenge Fund. HSE received 67 bids for the Fund whose aim is to increase worker involvement and consultation, and each project has been awarded between £44,000 and £99,822 to generate collaborative environments conducive to improvements in occupational health and safety in mainly small and medium-sized enterprises lacking arrangements for involving their workforce in health and safety management.
The Chairman of the HSC said of this year's awards: "We have again had a tremendous response to the WSA Challenge Fund, in terms of both the quantity and quality of bids. Some are built on the good work they did during the first year. All the award winners have presented convincing, well thought out plans for building partnerships and driving improvements in occupational health and safety.
The 47 influential partners and 21 Worker Safety Advisers that make up the award winners will be able to reach out to about 20,000 workers. Working with employers and employees they will be able to achieve measurable and sustained changes to their organisations' culture and behaviours.
We're very pleased that the winners represent a good cross-section of Great Britain both sectorally and nationally. Scotland and Wales are represented this year for the first time. We see partnership working as one of our prime vehicles for promoting and persuading stakeholders of the benefits of sensible health and safety. The fund has given us an opportunity to support a wide-range of diverse stakeholders, in often innovative partnerships and we wish them every success!"
¹ the press release lists the award winners
