Peter Hewitt Award for International Innovation in Occupational Hygiene

BOHS is delighted to announce a new prestigious award, the Dr Peter Hewitt award for International Innovation in Occupational Hygiene.

This Award Commemorates a leading member of BOHS and innovator in the field of worker health protection and his continued commitment to international sharing of good practice and learning in the field.

How to apply

You can submit your application until Friday 4 April 2025.

The link will take you to Oxford Abstracts to submit your application. You will need to register if you haven’t used the system before.

Submit Your Application Form Here

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Entry requirements

The Peter Hewitt award aims to recognise each year an innovation, invention or initiative which contributes to the better understanding or practise of Occupational Hygiene in more than one country. This may be an innovation developed in one country in a previous year, but that has been actively promoted by the innovator or their partners to another country in the year of the award application.

This award is open to companies, individuals or teams. The Society can also accept nominations from those other than the applicants.

Applicants or nominators need to show:

What the innovation, invention or idea is;
That they are entitled to claim that they have been the creators, developers or innovators;
What is new or different about it;
How they have acted to promote it in another country, whether with a partner or directly;
That it has had impact on the practice or understanding of occupational hygiene. This could include inclusion in standard operation practices, regulatory or professional standards for practice, inclusion in an educational curriculum, wide reaction or independent response. Simply showing that it has been widely promoted or anecdotal evidence of impact is not accepted on its own.

Please note ventures for commercial gain will not be considered.

Terms and conditions

Shortlisted applicants will need to be available to attend the awards presentation evening on Wednesday 18th June 2025 at the BOHS OH2025 conference in Newcastle. Tickets, travel and accommodation will be booked at your own expense. The award ceremony will be photographed and filmed and used for publicity following the event.

The applicant agrees that BOHS may use their name, and the name of their nomination, and likeness for advertising and publicity purposes in connection with the awards, including but not limited to publication of their name, and the name of their nomination. The winner (and their representatives and personnel) may be required to and agree to take part in reasonable publicity events in connection with the award.