Marvin OnumonuBritish Safety Council celebrated the winners of its International Safety Awards 2025 at a gala dinner on 19th June at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, London.
This was the 67th year of the awards and the 65th time the gala dinner has been held.
HSI Donesafe sponsored the event, which was hosted by adventurer James Cracknell OBE. CEO Mike Robinson, chairman Peter McGettrick, and safety psychologist Dr Tim Marsh all spoke on the night.
The awards recognised 789 organisations from 45 countries for their efforts in preventing workplace injuries and work-related ill health in 2024.
There was strong representation from construction, manufacturing, oil, gas, mining, power and utility sectors.
Of the winners, 212 received a Distinction, 371 received a Merit and 206 received a Pass.
Only a handful won overall category awards.
Robinson said: “These awards demonstrate the commitment of all organisations represented, not only to the health and safety of their own workforces, but to the British Safety Council’s vision that no-one should be injured or made ill through their work.
“As we celebrate individual and collective successes here tonight, we also understand what the success means outside the context of this evening.
“The safer and healthier workplaces you are building mean that more people get to go home safely at the end of each working day.”
Robinson added: “And in an age defined by rapid change, this commitment to worker health, safety, and wellbeing has never been so needed, nor so important.
“The world is changing, and access to knowledge and support are invaluable tools in navigating social, political, environmental and technological change.
“Our members, working in more than 60 countries, share this same commitment, understanding that healthier and safer workplaces are more productive and more profitable too.”
He said: “It is our vision at the British Safety Council that no-one should be injured or made ill through their work – anywhere in the world.
“By sharing the achievements of the winners of these awards, we can inspire other employers everywhere to follow their lead and give workers’ health, safety and wellbeing the priority it rightly deserves.”
McGettrick said: “I know I speak, in unison, with the trustees and staff of British Safety Council when I say just how impressed we have been with the quality of award entries we received this year.
“As ever, we remain grateful for a growing number of applications from different regions of the world, as each of these demonstrates a shared commitment to making the health, safety and wellbeing of workers a priority.
“Throughout the course of this evening, the theme of change has loomed large.”
McGettrick added: “It forces us to ask how we keep workers safe amid the rapid change that will come to define our near future.
“And as we stand, at the dawn of an Age of AI, we face a question previous generations have not wrestled with: how do we make wellbeing a constant in a world constantly in flux?”
