Connell Brothers Limited has won an International Safety Award from the British Safety Council for the 28th consecutive year. Connell Brothers achieved a Distinction for the 2026 award in recognition of its commitment to keeping its workers and workplaces healthy and safe during the 2025 calendar year.

Now in their 68th year, the International Safety Awards recognise and celebrate organisations from around the world which have demonstrated to the satisfaction of the scheme’s independent judges their commitment to preventing workplace injuries and work-related ill health during the previous calendar year. The awards also acknowledge organisations that have shown commitment to wellbeing and mental health at work.

Mike Robinson, Chief Executive of British Safety Council, congratulated Connell Brothers Ltd on their success in winning an International Safety Award 2026 with a Distinction: Our winners have clearly made substantial and ongoing efforts to protect and improve the health, safety and wellbeing of everyone in their organisations. All the winners, and those who were shortlisted, have gone the extra mile in terms of dedicating additional time, resources and commitment to ensuring their work, teams and workplaces remained healthy and safe during 2025. I would also like to say thank you to all the organisations who took time to apply for these awards and to our panel of judges who volunteered to adjudicate them.

“It is our vision at the British Safety Council that no-one should be injured or made ill through their work – anywhere in the world. By sharing the achievements of the winners of these awards, we can inspire other employers everywhere to follow their lead and give workers’ health, safety and wellbeing the priority it rightly deserves.

“The long list of winners of the International Safety Awards, demonstrates that a significant number of companies recognise that effective management of health and safety risks is a business growth enabler, benefiting not just employees, but organisations and wider society.

“By celebrating the achievements of the 789 winners of the 2026 International Safety Awards and over six decades of improving health and safety standards around the world, we encourage other organisations to adopt this approach and place employees’ health, safety and wellbeing at the core of their business.”

“Our heartfelt congratulations to Connell Brothers Limited. All of those working at Connell Brothers should be enormously proud of their achievement.”

To continue our commitment to excellence in health and safety, we have registered to enter the 2027 International Awards.