This year’s Suzy Lamplugh Trust National Personal Safety Awards are supported by NHS Protect, the security management part of the National Health. As in past years the awards are to celebrate the work across the UK to help keep people safe from the risk of violence and aggression.
They also provide an opportunity for Suzy Lamplugh Trust, a charity for personal safety, to recognise best practice in the field.
For a safer workplace award, judges are looking for nominations for people, groups or organisations that make the personal safety safer in the workplace. This could be a security guard who goes that extra mile walking staff to their cars, an initiative that has made employees feel safer, a company that has above average policies in their workplace or something that you feel deserves special recognition.
To apply for the workplace award visit the trust website – http://www.suzylamplugh.org/2010/06/national-personal-safety-awards-nomination-form/.
A panel of judges will include the comedian Jo Brand and broadcaster Victoria Coren Mitchell. The nomination categories include: the safer communities award; young people’s safety award; taking stalking seriously award; and an NHS Protect award for keeping staff safe at work and contributing to lone worker protection.
Rachel Griffin, pictured, Director of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust said: “The awards are an important tool to demonstrate good practice and recognise the hard work of various agencies and individuals who promote and ensure personal safety. We have a large amount of nominations each year and I look forward to reading all of the inspirational nominations that will come through this year.”
Nominations close on August 3, and winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in central London on October 13.
