And the winner of the 2023 EC Innovation Awards is ….

Congratulations to the team behind Plug and Play, who took the crown for the 2023 EC Innovation Awards, followed hot on the heels by the Heavy Lift team’s Franna Gradient Alert and the EC Project’s Stringer Strangler.

Winner: Plug and Play

Plug and Play Site Facilities was developed as a solution to the ongoing excessive hire costs and hours taken to set up a project.

The winning innovation makes the setup of site facilities such as crib rooms, ice rooms, training rooms, offices and IT containers onsite when a project is started significantly reduced in terms of hours worked and hire costs.

Check out the video for more info on the Plug and Play innovation here:

Well done to contributors: Shannon Robartson, Rob Voss, David Panic, Deyu (Derek) Zeng, Craig Wearne, Alex Ford and Paul Brown.

2023 EC Innovation Award winners, the Plug and Play team

Runner up: Franna Gradient Alert

Runner up, the Franna Gradient Alert by the Heavy Lift team is the team’s second year in a row taking a top spot in the EC Innovation Awards.

Following an incident involving a franna rollover the team got to work on innovating a solution to keep people in frannas safer.

Check out the video below for more on the Franna Gradient Alert.

Well done to contributors: John Castel, Luke Thompson, Joseph Wong, Brent Mason, Travis Gaspar and Marlon Baars.

Runner up: Stringer Strangler

Runner up, the multifunctional clamping device, the Stringer Strangler is used to hold and clamp steel together in a new and improved safer way thanks to the Project’s team.

Inspired to take action after an incident where stringers were being put together, the team were committed to finding a safer solution, so they took to the whiteboard to brainstorm. After a few iterations and some site feedback, the stringer strangler was born.

Check out more in the video here.

Well done to contributors: Chris Chatfield and Wade Machar.

EC Innovation Awards runners up, pictured L – R: Adam Cook (EGM presenting the awards), Wade Machar, Chris Chatfield, Brent Mason, Travis Gaspar, Joe Wong, Luke Thompson and Jason Cippitelli (Tech and Innovations Manager presenting the awards).

Congratulations to everyone involved in taking the initiative, the time, care, and concern to innovate safer and more productive work environments. Keep up the innovating.