MPA launches ‘Sharing Good Practice 2024’
New digital guide summarizes best entries from the 2024 MPA Health and Safety Awards
THE Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published a digital version of ‘Sharing good practice 2024’.
The guide provides a unique summary of the best entries from the 2024 MPA Health and Safety Awards, including:
The Eight Topic Awards
The John Crabbe Trophy
The Sir Frank Davies Award
The Eurobitume Award
‘The Fatal 6’ Award
The MPA Special Award
The Young Leader Award
Individual Recognition Awards – 21 Nominations.
Each entry includes a direct link to a short video that highlights the health and safety issues addressed by the entry and the benefits that have been delivered.
The guide is an ideal way to quickly review these outstanding innovations in health, safety, and well-being and to identify those entries that could be adapted or implemented within workplaces to make them safer for all.
To coincide with the launch of the guide, the MPA will shortly be inviting submissions for the MPA Health and Safety Awards 2026. The award event will be held in July 2026.
In 2026, a new award will be introduced, ‘The Outstanding Contractor Award’, which will recognize the critical role that contractors play in the mineral products industry and celebrate the outstanding contribution that a contractor has made in improving health and safety in the industry.
Whilst the key theme for the event will remain ‘Safer by Sharing’ and entries can be on any minerals products industry-related health and safety topic, the MPA is particularly keen to encourage entries for the 2026 awards in two areas: Mental health and well-being; and entries related to coated stone, contracting, and the handling of bitumen.
Colin Mew, MPA head of health and safety, said: ‘These entries, which come from all sectors within the mineral products industry – from small, single-site operators to larger companies, reflect the improvements, innovations, and practices that have been implemented to make the working environment healthier and safer. Sharing them will enable others to embrace them, and this will make a huge difference.’
More information and detailed guidelines on the 2026 awards will be available shortly.
