Brisbane 8 October 2013. An invention by a Warwick company that helps transfer cattle from one truck to another with minimal risk to workers has taken out the top award at this year’s Queensland Safe Work Awards.
Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie joined Queensland rugby league great and Safety Ambassador Mal Meninga to congratulate Fraser Livestock Transport and six other award winners at a ceremony in St Lucia this afternoon.
“Together with Mal, I commend these organisations for leading the way in designing and building a better safety culture across Queensland,” Mr Bleijie said.
“These awards are so important because they shine a light on businesses and individuals doing their very best to make their workplaces safer and healthier.
“Whether you work with abandoned animals in Brisbane, or are helping your staff to get healthier in Townsville, or even trucking livestock in the South-West, your workplace can lead by example.
“These deserving winners have illustrated this.
Mr Bleijie said the cross loading module, developed and built by Frasers Livestock Transport, had been resoundingly successful in making the transfer of cattle between trailers safer.
“The cross loading module incorporates a series of elevated platforms, over-trailer walkways and sliding gates and barriers that remove the need for the driver to work in, climb on or stand on the crate,” he said.
“This reduces the risk of falling, tripping, and coming into contact with livestock which can cause serious injury, or even death.
“Their procedure also reduces the time taken to transfer cattle between trucks, showing that a safe workplace is also a productive workplace.
Other winners included Core Developments, a small business based in Townsville that overhauled its safety management system.
The Local Government Association of Queensland won in its category for a workplace wellness program that created a healthier workforce and assisted local councils with their own wellbeing strategies.
Mr Bleijie said the winners in categories one to four would go on to compete in the national Safe Work Australia Awards early next year.
“The Newman Government is committed to making Queensland workplaces the safest in the nation,” he said.
“Let’s show the rest of Australia how Queensland companies are leading the way in this field, just like we did when we took out three from the four categories in this year’s national awards.
The Queensland Safe Work Awards ceremony is one of the highlights of Safe Work Month, which runs until the end of October. For more information, visit www.worksafe.qld.gov.au.
[ENDS] 8 October 2013
Media Contact: Ashley McDermid 0412 731 355 or Katherine Hornbuckle 0402 862 351
The 2013 Queensland Safe Work Award winners are:
· Category 1 - Best work health and safety management system
Queensland Bulk Water Supply Authority t/a Seqwater
· Category 2 - Best Solution to an identified work health and safety issue
Frasers Livestock Transport
· Category 3 - Best work health and safety practices in small business
Core Developments
· Category 4 - Best individual contribution to work health and safety
Jennifer Bell, RSPCA Queensland
· Category 5 - Most significant improvement to work health and safety performance
TrackStar Alliance
· Category 6 - Best workplace health and wellbeing initiative
The Local Government Association of Queensland
· Category 7 - Best demonstrated leadership in work health and safety
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