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Katelyn Vosti - RTW Coordinator excellence - Patties Foods - Patties Foods Ltd

Return to Work Coordinator Excellence

Patties is the leading Australian-owned branded frozen food company and owns a range of brands including Four’N Twenty and Herbert Adams. Patties is based in Bairnsdale in Gippsland and is the largest employer in the area. I joined Patties in October last year in a new role as their Injury Management Coordinator. Previously, the HR Manager had to incorporate injury management into her role for a 500 person site. Since joining, I have created an injury management program from scratch. Having a positive relationship with treaters is one of the most important things in getting a worker back to work so I have really focused on building that relationship. The main action I have taken is gathering almost 30 local medical professionals at our worksite to educate them about Patties and Return to Work.

Community and Corporate Health & Wellbeing - Ballarat Community Health

Commitment to Workplace Health and Wellbeing

Ballarat Community Health is a not-for-profit organisation that is committed to promoting health and wellbeing in the community and providing quality and affordable health care. The nominee, Louise Feery is the Team Leader of the Healthy Lifestyle Team and manages approximately 15 staff in areas of Community Nursing, Health Promotion & Wellbeing, Exercise Programs, Research/Evaluation and Workplace Health. Louise has shown outstanding leadership across the organisation to drive the development and implementation of the organisation's Staff Health & Wellbeing Program as well as being a strong advocate for health and wellbeing initiatives in the community and regional workplaces.

New Safe Glass Grab - Bremner Glass Equipment (BGE)

Health and Safety Invention of the Year

Bremner Glass Equipment (BGE) Pty Ltd is a successful original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for the flat glass industry throughout Australia and New Zealand. It specialises in producing highly customised handling, transport and cutting equipment for the glass industry. BGE, with the support of Pilz Australia, has invented a new “safe” glass grab to improve the way large glass panes are handled and transported.

Chemical management improvements - GWMWater

Best Solution to a Specific Workplace Health and Safety Issue

GWMWater is a government owned water business, responsible for managing urban and rural supply systems in the Grampians, Wimmera and Mallee regions of Victoria. We service approximately 72,000 people living either on farms or in one of 71 urban centres. We operate water and wastewater treatment plants in many of our 71 towns, utilise desalination technology, operate numerous recycled water schemes and run pipelines, dams, weirs and pump stations to service our customers. The workplace health and safety issue confronting the organisation involved a lack of compliance in the management of chemicals at workplaces.

Training - The Gordon

Commitment to Workplace Health and Wellbeing

Discussing and recommending the 6 day WorkSafe Managers and Supervisors course to the City Of Greater Geelong. Having them place a number of their managers through the course was an effort to coordinate dates and times. This was the largest group to go through a program as such.