LSBUD ANNUAL AWARDS ‘THE LARRIES’

This category will reward the best campaign by a company or organisation to promote safe working practices around above or below ground assets. Entrants should use no more than 500 words to explain how their campaign has successfully enabled them to reach and inform those people who are at risk from injury when working near utility assets. Please remember when submitting your nomination to give as much detail and context to your submission as possible, paying attention to the criteria in which the category will be marked against which are; Impact to safe digging on both internal and external stakeholders, metrics of success, management information, senior leadership buy in (where applicable( and strength & quality of the submission.

This category is designed to reward the organisation that has shown the most commitment to recording damages and near misses over a measured period of time. Please provide evidence of your damage reduction activities and explain how you achieved this. Please remember when submitting your nomination to give as much detail and context to your submission as possible, paying attention to the criteria in which the category will be marked against which are; reporting, management information, senior leadership buy in, company wide engagement, cultural behaviour towards damage reporting and strength & quality of the submission.

Please use this category to nominate your safe digging hero. This may be a colleague, peer or someone within the industry that you feel should be recognised for their commitment to safe digging within the industry. Someone who goes above and beyond to ensure works are carried out safely, or an individual who has reacted especially well to an incident or near miss, using it as a learning experience to improve their own, or others, working practices. Entries should be 500 words or fewer. Please remember when submitting your nomination to give as much detail and context to your submission as possible, paying attention to the criteria in which the category will be marked against which are; Impact to safe digging on both internal and external stakeholders, going beyond what is required and strength & quality of the submission.

With social media playing a huge role in today’s world, we thought it right for it to also be acknowledged. The Best Safe Digging Influencer award can be achieved by an individual or company that advocates safe digging online (social media or website or any other related media). Please provide evidence of a social media or online campaign that has been successful in reaching a large audience or that has caused influence within the safe digging community in any way. Screenshots of analytics along with clear evidence of your work is to be submitted along with a minimum of 150 words as to why you believe it has been successful. Please remember when submitting your nomination to give as much detail and context to your submission as possible, paying attention to the criteria in which the category will be marked against which are; metrics of success (as previously mentioned) company and/or industry wide engagement and strength & quality of the submission.

For a bit of fun we will also be awarding a prize to to the best picture of Linesearch Larry out and about on his travels. This award will be judged by the attendees of Damage Prevention Day 2025 on the day itself. Please keep an eye out on our socials for more details but in the meantime, there is no need to complete the form you can simply you can send your Larry photos to us here!

Qualifying pictures will also be included automatically in the 2025 Larry Calendar Competition, full details of this competition are available here.