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WA businesses announced diversity and safety winners

10 March 2011

Nine businesses from Western Australia won CRS Australia Employer Awards last night, for their outstanding commitment to employing people with disability and workplace safety. These businesses were presented their awards by CRS Australia’s WA Divisional Manager, Peter Davies, at the annual WA Employer Awards ceremony held in Perth.

Winning employers are selected based on their creativity, innovation and commitment to providing training and employment opportunities for people with a disability, injury or health condition.

For the injury prevention category, winners are selected based on their outstanding commitment to providing a safe work environment for their employees.

Peter Davies, WA Divisional Manager, CRS Australia, said, ‘Having partnerships with local businesses is an integral part to CRS Australia being able to achieve such positive results, which in turn has such an encouraging impact on the lives of our job seekers.’

‘I would like to congratulate those employers who have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to finding training and employment opportunities for our job seekers and to workplace safety,’ said Mr Davies.

The following nine winners were announced on Wednesday 9 March:

Local Employer Award - Metropolitan

  • Bunnings Warehouse, Innaloo

Local Employer Award - Rural

  • MCM Protection, Kalgoorlie
  • Maddington’s Contraflow Mining Civil Traffic, Maddington

Champion Employer Award

  • Craig Rich from Tiger Mech, Belmont
  • Antonella Segre, ConnectGroups, Perth 

State Employer Award

  • Australian Islamic College, Kewdale

Injury Prevention Award

  • National Native Title Tribunal, Perth

WA Partnership Honour Board

  • Perth Inflight Catering, Perth Airport
  • Department of Veterans Affairs, Perth

Celebrating its 70th birthday in 2011, CRS Australia continues to help almost 60,000 job seekers towards meaningful employment each year. CRS Australia believes a job is more than just employment: it provides hope, belonging, confidence and independence.

CRS Australia is part of the Australian Government Department of Human Services. It provides disability employment and assessment services to people with a disability, injury or health condition and recruitment, injury prevention and injury management services to employers.

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