ARISO Rail Safety Awards 2026

The Award recognises a frontline rail worker (or team) who in the past 12 months, championed a rail safety initiative that improved safety outcomes in their workplace or worksite with exemplary and demonstrable outcomes for their co-workers.

Frontline in this Award is defined as an individual (or team) who performs essential duties or functions that involves direct interaction with the public or support critical operations.

This award acknowledges initiatives or campaigns that have delivered demonstrable improvements in rail safety outcomes for the community.

It recognises programs that effectively engage the public, reduce risk and promote safer behaviour around the rail network.

This award recognises an initiative that demonstrably improved operational safety or productivity (reduced loss time injury, streamlined processes/efficiency, direct cost savings like procurement, and savings through interoperability, sustainability or innovation etc).

The award celebrates programs that strengthen organisational safety capability, rail operations or WHS, and deliver measurable physical and/or psychological safety improvements for the workforce.

This award acknowledges the overall achievements of a rail industry professional who exemplifies advocacy and demonstrable commitment to improving the health, safety and wellbeing outcomes within their organisation or the industry.

In conjunction with Informa’s Next Generation Conference Scholarship, this will be the inaugural Next Generation Award. Meant for rail sector professionals aged 30 and under, this award will be chosen from the 10 ‘Next Generation’ scholarship recipients for the ARISO Rail Safety Conference 2026. A judging panel will evaluate the recipients to identify the standout leader driving innovation and excellence in rail safety. Apply for the scholarship and be in the running for the Award at this link.