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CSO Broken Bay Wins National Safety Award

 

The CSO Broken Bay has been named as winner of the Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System category at the prestigious National Safe Work Australia Awards. The awards were presented at a Gala Dinner hosted by the Australian Safety & Compensation Commission (ASCC) on 28 April at Parliament House, Canberra.
The National Safe Work Australia Awards are the premier national OHS awards in Australia and promote continuous improvement in OHS by recognising excellence at the government, organisational and individual level.

The Hon. Julia Gillard MP, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations stated in her opening address to the more than 300 guests and thirty state and territory finalists, that despite the diversity of their industries, locations, sizes, workforces and sectors, the finalists were all exemplars, leaders and innovators in workplace safety.       
CSO Broken Bay was selected unanimously by the ASCC’s independent judging panel to be named Winner, Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System, and to be highly praised by the panel for its “genuine commitment to improving safety, not only for its own operations but for others in the community”, being “a truly commendable finalist that displays an outstanding commitment to improving OHS in the workplace.”

In announcing the 2007 Safe Work Australia Awards winners, the ASCC described CSO’s safety management system, CSOHS Online, as “an exceptional, first-class OHS initiative”.
In accepting the Award on behalf of CSO Broken Bay, Dr Helen Cannon, Head of Human Resource Services, attributed the Award-winning OHS initiatives of CSO to the unwavering safety commitment of Br Tony Whelan cfc, Director of Schools, to the support of school principals, and to the leadership and exemplary work of Mrs Mary Gow, OHS Consultant for CSO.

Since May 2007, CSOHS Online has been recognised for system excellence by SAI Global, the National Safety Council of Australia, WorkCover NSW and now a national award from the Australian Safety and Compensation Commission.  Supported by generous sponsorship from Catholic Church Insurances the Catholic Schools Office has been able to share CSOHS Online on a not for profit basis with many hundreds of educational organisations across NSW.  

CSO Broken Bay’s OHS management system (OHSMS) has been in place within CSO Broken Bay’s 43 primary and secondary schools since 2003, with the online version, CSOHS Online launched in 2006.  A national version of CSOHS Online is due for release for the commencement of the 2009 school year.