Uni is workplace safety champion

The University of Adelaide has won the title of Best Workplace Health and Safety Management System in the Public Sector at this year's 2011 Safe Work Awards.

The award, presented to the University's Manager of Health, Safety and Wellbeing, Gerald Buttfield, will now see the University represent the State at the national Safe Work Awards in April 2012.

The judges said the University impressed them with its commitment to OHS through many levels.

Minister for Industrial Relations the Hon. Russell Wortley said: "The University of Adelaide demonstrated how it makes safety a core component of its wide range of work activities with a safety management system the judges noted was successful in reducing incidents and injury claims."

Dr Sharyn Gaskin, Research Associate in the Discipline of Public Health, also won one of SafeWork SA's Augusta Zadow Scholarships. She will use the scholarship in her research to better understand the influence of cosmetics on the skin absorption of chemicals among female workers.