SOTE AWARDS
Recognition that means something.
Every year, the Global Forum sets aside a moment to recognise the people and organisations moving safety forward — not with volume, but with weight. These aren’t participation awards. They’re reserved for genuine leadership: individuals who’ve changed how their organisation thinks about safety, companies who’ve proven it at scale, and careers that have shaped the profession itself.
Three award categories. Three different kinds of impact.
Safety Leader Award
For the individual who moved the needle.
Recognising individuals whose leadership has directly shaped safety outcomes within their organisation or industry — not just policy on paper, but measurable, lived change. This is the award for the person who saw a problem others accepted as permanent, and refused to leave it that way.
Company Excellence Award
For the organisation proving it works.
Recognising organisations that have built genuine, sustained safety excellence into how they operate — not a single initiative, but a culture. This award looks for outcomes that hold up under scrutiny: real data, real change, real consistency over time.
Lifetime Achievement Award
For a career that shaped the profession
Reserved for individuals whose body of work has left a lasting mark on safety as a discipline — the people whose thinking, research, or leadership other professionals now build on. This is SOTE’s highest recognition, awarded rarely and deliberately.