Alan Butler Awards for Excellence

A competition for activities carried out by Groups within the UK, sponsored by:
British Telecom

The Alan Butler Awards, which have now been running for over ten years, play an important role in recognising, celebrating and communicating the work of health and safety groups.

 

The objectives of the awards are:

  • to recognise the high standards of work achieved by groups
  • to encourage all groups to set and achieve high standards
  • to use the winning entries as an example of good standards
  • to increase awareness of the Safety Groups

 

Alan Butler

Alan Butler represented the Sheffield Occupational Health and Safety Association on the National Health and Safety Groups Council from July 1985. He served as a Vice Chairman of the Council from October 1991 to October 1993 and served as Chairman of the Council from October 1993 until his untimely death on 17 August 1995.

One of his ideas was to encourage high standards of work in individual Groups and to recognise this by publicising their achievements across the Groups movement. His successor as Chairman, Roly Buss MBE, proposed that it would be fitting to rename the Awards Competition, which Alan had established in 1995, as the Alan Butler Awards and this was approved by Council at its meeting on 25 January 1996.