Meet the
2024 Hunter Safety Awards
Winners
Swietelsky Rail Australia
Business of the Year
Swietelsky Rail Australia (SRA) is an established and reliable rail maintenance and construction service provider, proudly servicing the Australian rail industry since 2011.
Newcastle Airport
Best Health and Wellbeing (Large)
Newcastle Airport has been providing air travel to the people of the Hunter, Central Coast and Northern NSW regions, as well as welcoming visitors from across the globe for more than 70 years.
Swieltelsky Rail Australia
Best Health and Wellbeing (SME)
Swietelsky Rail Australia (SRA) is an established and reliable rail maintenance and construction service provider, proudly servicing the Australian rail industry since 2011.
Metso
Best WHS Improvement (Large)
Metso is a frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries globally.
Fenech
Best WHS Improvement (SME)
Fenech Company Pty Ltd was established in 2018 by Director Nathan Fenech with a vision to continue the long-standing legacy of construction and earthmoving. Starting with just a single truck and a few machines, Nathan worked alongside his father Steve Fenech to lay the foundation of the company.
Machine Monitor
Best WHS Management System (SME)
Established in Newcastle over 25 years ago, machinemonitor® has grown to be one of Australia’s premier independent advisors on electrical assets servicing our customers in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from local offices in Brisbane, Darwin, Perth and Hamilton (NZ).
Westpac Group
Best WHS Management System (Large)
Westpac is Australia’s first bank and oldest company, one of four major banking organisations in Australia and one of the largest banks in New Zealand.
Westpac provides a broad range of consumer, business and institutional banking and wealth management services through a portfolio of financial services brands and businesses.
Coal Services
Best WHS Training Program
Coal Services is an industry-owned organisation committed to providing critical services and expertise to the NSW coal industry. This commitment is steeped in history, having been involved in the industry in one form or another since the 1920s.
Singleton Council
Best WHS Innovation (Large)
Built on agriculture, driven by coal and sustained by the Hunter River, Singleton holds a special place as a centre of historical, cultural, industrial and economic significance to NSW. In addition to the provision of essential infrastructure, Singleton Council is proud to partner with local industry groups, organisations and other levels of government to facilitate economic growth and opportunities, oversee natural and cultural heritage and provide state-of-the-art cultural, social and sporting facilities to create the community our residents, businesses and investors are proud to be part of. Singleton Council also aims to be an employer of choice, promoting career opportunities and work-life balance to employees where they can develop their own potential while making a contribution to the community.
Safegauge
Best WHS Innovation (SME)
SafeGauge was founded by Managing Director Luke Dawson in 2019, who spent 10 years working on heavy machinery as a heavy plant mechanic in the Australian mining industry.
Concerned by the significant risks involved in machinery live work, he began working to develop wireless testing solutions designed to minimise the danger with high-risk work.
Our team's passion and commitment to safety, performance,
and efficiency has been the driving force behind SafeGauge, which is now gaining recognition from leading global industry bodies.
Paul Olive (Ausgrid)
WHS Champion of the Year
Kurt Spiers (Red Insight)
Young WHS Leader