Volunteering WHS Award

In partnership with:

Volunteering WA

About

The Volunteering WHS Award recognises and celebrates a positive initiative, contribution or commitment to improving work health and safety for volunteers in a volunteer involving organisation.

Volunteering is vitally important to the community delivering needed and valuable social services at the same time providing engagement and fulfilment opportunities and experiences for individual volunteers.

With a few exceptions, volunteer involving organisations and their volunteer workers are covered by the WHS laws and have respective duties relating to work health and safety of volunteer work.

However, there may be challenges in ensuring WHS for volunteer workers including determining that WHS laws apply to the volunteering relationship and the work, WHS management capability and resources, the diversity and nature of the volunteer work, inexperienced and ageing workers in some cases, and the absence of usual  employment worker control to volunteer workers.

CRITERIA

The selection criteria for this award include the following:

  1. The nature and features of the initiative, contribution or commitment and its relevance or usefulness to volunteering WHS.
  2. Attributes of the design, development, implementation, monitoring, review and improvement of the volunteering WHS initiative, contribution or commitment.
  3. The benefit or improvement that the initiative, contribution or commitment addresses or achieves for volunteering WHS,  including potential benefits for broader industry volunteering WHS.

ELIGIBILITY

Entry to this award is open to all individuals or volunteer involving organisations that operate in Western Australia, including the corporate, government, not-for-profit and community sectors involved in volunteering.

Individuals and business entities being nominated for this award must provide written permission for the nomination and for its use in WHS Foundation promotional materials.

SUBMISSION

Submissions must include a clear written summary addressing the selection criteria below. (Up to 500 words in MS Word or PDF). However, to compliment the written submission, applicants are encouraged to also submit a short video (max 3 minutes) and additional supporting material including: documents, photographs, video / audio, web links or other relevant information with their submission.

JUDGING

A judging panel comprising 3 to 5 judges will qualitatively assess applications against the criteria above and select a short list of award finalists. One winner from the shortlisted finalists will be determined that, in the opinion of the judging panel, best demonstrates achievement of the award category and criteria.

NOTIFICATION

Finalists will be notified in advance of the award ceremony. The winner will be announced at the award ceremony on Saturday 25 October 2025 at the Gala Event at the Astral Ballroom, Crown Perth. 

Entry form

WHS Awards - Entry Form 2025

ORGANISATION DETAILS

Organisation Address(Required)

AWARD ENTRY

You may enter more than one category. Please submit separate applications.
Submission of Evidence for Selected Category(Required)
Note: If you are entering for multiple awards, please submit separate applications.
Please check the award criteria and address it accordingly
Please check the award criteria and address it accordingly
Please check the award criteria and address it accordingly
Please provide a link/s to your document hosted in the cloud (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.) in the space below (ensure you have provided public access). Alternatively, you may upload your file/s directly using the upload option provided, or email the document/s directly if that is more convenient.
Drop files here or
Max. file size: 100 MB.
    Please provide the link/s to your online video (e.g. Youtube or Vimeo) below. Please ensure that these videos can be downloaded and viewed by the public). Alternatively, you may upload your file/s directly using the upload option provided, or email them if that is more convenient.
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    Max. file size: 100 MB.

      CONTACT PERSON

      Contact Details(Required)
      Judging may occur after working hours