Conditions of Entry

The Conditions of entry for the 2010 SRCC Safety Awards are listed below or are available as a PDF document.

1. There are six SRCC Safety Award categories:

Category 1–Best Workplace Health and Wellbeing Program
Category 2–Leadership Award for Injury or Disease Prevention and Management
Category 3–Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System
Category 4–Best Solution to an Identified Workplace Health and Safety Issue
Category 5–Best Individual Contribution to Workplace Health and Safety
a. An employee (e.g. Health and Safety Representative)
b. An outstanding contribution by a person with responsibility for OHS as part of their duties
Category 6–Rehabilitation and Return to Work Award
a. An organisation that has demonstrated excellence and innovation in rehabilitation and return to work
b. An outstanding contribution by an individual in rehabilitation and return to work.

2. This document, including the instructions on how to enter the awards (available at www.srcc.gov.au), the official entry form and any other details about the 2010 SRCC Safety Awards contained within promotional material all form part of the terms and conditions of entry. The terms and conditions of entry apply to all entrants in all categories for the 2010 SRCC Safety Awards.

3. The 2010 SRCC Safety Awards will be administered by the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission (SRCC), assisted by Comcare.

4. Entry for the 2010 SRCC Safety Awards is open to employers and individuals operating within the Commonwealth occupational health and safety (OHS) and/or workers’ compensation jurisdiction. Specifically, to be eligible to enter categories 1–5 the entrant must be covered by the Occupational, Health and Safety Act 1991 (OHS Act). To be eligible to enter category 6, the entrant must be covered by the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (SRC Act). However, the SRCC reserves the right to either allow or disallow any entrant for any reason at its complete discretion.

5. Entries must be received by Monday 3 May 2010. For reasons of fairness, late entries will not be accepted, unless otherwise arranged with the SRCC Secretariat.

6. By submitting an entry, entrants shall be taken to have acknowledged and accepted these terms and conditions and to have agreed to be bound by them.

7. Entries must be provided electronically unless otherwise arranged with the SRCC Secretariat, and must include an entry form with up to date contact details.

8. The SRCC Safety Awards judging panel will have complete discretion in assessing entries, applying the judging criteria, conditions of entry and determining the awards.

9. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

10. The assessment, conduct and results of the awards will not create any legal obligations between entrants and the SRCC, the Crown in right of the Commonwealth occupational health and safety and workers’ compensation jurisdiction, or Safe Work Australia or the Commonwealth.

11. The judging panel reserves the right not to allocate an ward in a particular category where, in its opinion, there are no entries of sufficient merit.

12. In the event that an entrant that is judged to have won a category is found to have failed to satisfy or abide by the terms and conditions of the 2010 SRCC Safety Awards, that entrant shall not be entitled to the relevant award nor entry into the national Safe Work Australia Awards. The SRCC may, at its absolute discretion, award the relevant award to another entrant or choose not to award a winner for that category at all.

13. Entries and supporting material will not be returned to entrants.

14. Each entrant warrants that its entry, including any designs and/or inventions, is their original work, that any intellectual property rights arising in connection with that entry vest in the entrant, and that the entry does not interfere with any third-party rights.

15. By entering the 2010 SRCC Safety Awards each entrant warrants that all information in its entry is true, accurate and complete. Entrants may be requested to provide further evidence to substantiate their entries and, if so requested, such evidence must be provided within the stipulated timeframe.

16. All entrants agree to allow officers assisting the SRCC and Safe Work Australia to enter and inspect premises, for the purposes of information gathering and video production that are the subject of or related to an entry, for the purposes of verifying the entry.

17. Winning an award does not signify endorsement of a particular product or a particular health and safety practice by the SRCC or Safe Work Australia.

18. The SRCC and the judging panel reserves the right to decline to accept, or to disqualify, an entry at its absolute discretion, this includes but not limited to situations in which the entrant, or a related person or organisation, has breached or is under investigation for possible breaches of occupational health and safety laws (whether or not a prosecution is pending), or where the acceptance of the entry may otherwise be detrimental to the objectives of the SRCC Safety Awards scheme.

19. The SRCC, Comcare and Safe Work Australia will ensure that there is no disclosure to any third party of any information provided by an entrant and marked ‘confidential’, except with the prior consent of that entrant or where such a disclosure is authorised or required by law.

20. All entrants authorise the SRCC and Safe Work Australia to use the information contained in entries (other than confidential information) for any purposes they see fit including, but not necessarily limited to, promotional purposes.

21. Without limiting the generality of clause 19, and subject to proper acknowledgement being given to the relevant entrant, all entrants authorise the SRCC and Safe Work Australia to publish details of their entry, including (but not limited to) contact names, phone numbers and photos. The SRCC will not use the personal information of entrants for any other purpose without prior consent of the entrant, or unless authorised or required to do so by law.

22. Entrants acknowledge that they may be required for presentations and media interviews in respect of their entry and agree to take all reasonable steps to make themselves available for, and actively participate in such presentations or media interviews.

23. All entrants authorise the SRCC and Safe Work Australia to recommend that the product, method or service detailed in their entry be adopted for use by any other individual or organisation.

24. Previous SRCC Safety Award and national Safe Work Australia Award winners are ineligible to enter this year’s awards with the same initiative/solution/contribution.

25. The SRCC, the Crown in right of the Commonwealth occupational health and safety and workers’ compensation jurisdiction, Safe Work Australia, the Commonwealth and the officers, employees and agents of all the preceding do not accept any liability, however arising, including liability for negligence, for any accident, loss, injury or damage arising at any time out of or in connection with the SRCC Safety Awards or the national Safe Work Australia Awards except for any liability that cannot, by law, be excluded.

26. In order to be eligible for submission for entry into the SRCC Safety Awards and national Safe Work Australia Awards, entrants must meet and abide by the conditions of entry. Specifically, and without limiting the generality of the preceding, entrants (including directors of companies that are entrants) must not, within the two years prior to the issuing date of the awards, have had a prosecutable workplace fatality.

27. Subject to clause 28, winners of the 2010 SRCC Safety Awards categories 3, 4 and 5 will be submitted for entry in the national Safe Work Australia Awards, administered by Safe Work Australia.

28. Entrants who breach any of these ‘conditions of entry’ are subject to disqualification.