Get Involved – The Above and Beyond Awards (ABA) 2023

Get Involved – The Above and Beyond Awards (ABA) 2023

• Have you developed or launched a product that has enabled a safer way of working on or near electrical systems?
• Are you an organisation, charity or individual who has enhanced electrical safety through an outstanding initiative. Perhaps through a marketing or awareness campaign?
• Have you gone above and beyond in your legal requirements to have a positive impact on electrical safety within your workplace?
• Are you an organisation or individual who has contributed to enhancing electrical safety for a sustained period of typically 5 years or more?

If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, then don’t hold back, get your application in for the Above and Beyond Awards (ABA) today!

Background to the Above and Beyond Awards (ABA)

The Above and Beyond Awards (ABA) created by the Electrical Safety Roundtable (ESR) in the Workplace group, aim to recognise and celebrate individuals and organisations who go above and beyond their legal duty and strive to enhance and improve electrical safety within the workplace.

The awards are open to all individuals and organisations with a notable interest in electrical safety and will be judged on evidence from the past 24 months. The ABA provide a great opportunity to share best practice and promote electrical safety, gain recognition, and provide clients and customers with confidence in products and services.

Reasons to get involved!

These awards are an opportunity to share lessons learned, to work collectively to improve safety and ultimately ensure that when a loved one leaves home for work, they then go home safe and sound to their family at the end of their working day or night.

Commenting on the ABA Paul Meenan, Chair of the ESR Workplace group said: ‘The ESR are extremely proud that these awards are ever expanding in their efforts to recognise excellence in electrical and product safety. The ABA’s are that opportunity for all in industry to be publicly recognised as making the difference.’

Louise Adamson, electrical safety campaigner and member of the sub-group that created the awards commented: ‘It’s a huge privilege to have been asked to be involved in judging these Awards and I would encourage everyone with something to shout about, to do so.  I know there can sometimes be reticence to boast about successes, but this is about more than the prospect of winning an Award.  It’s an opportunity to share the very best of practices, which will in turn inspire others to action, improve safety across the electrical contracting industry and beyond, and that will, ultimately, save lives.

A quick round up of Last Years Winners

• Product of the year – LINIAN for their NanoClip™
• Electrical Safety Initiative of the year – South Tyneside Homes for their Post Occupancy Electrical Safety Check
• Changemaker of the year – Louise Adamson for her tireless promotion of electrical safety and raising awareness of safe isolation practices
• Derek Thompson Industry Service Award – Gary Hayers for his GSH Electrical YouTube channel

How to apply?

The Above and Beyond Awards are open for entries now and close on the 1st March 2024, with winners being announced in April.

There are four categories to enter

• Product of the year
• Paul Skyrme Electrical Safety Initiative of the year
• Changemaker of the year
• Derek Thompson Industry Service Award

Entry is free and open to all. Application forms are fillable pdf’s or mobile and tablet friendly Microsoft Forms available to download here. Submit your paper application and/or supporting documents to awards@electricalsafetyroundtable.co.uk

Good luck to all those who enter!