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This award recognises an individual’s commitment to self-development and skill achievement through industry training

To be eligible for this award the trainee must:

• Demonstrate safety and/or environmental leadership
• Show evidence of expertise/specialisation
• Demonstrate a high-quality work output
• Show evidence of professional development (current and planned)
• Show recognition by peers and employers… (which is letters/videos/social media etc of endorsement)

Note: Have completed a minimum of one New Zealand Certificate or Apprenticeship in the training period 1 April 2023 to 30 June 2024.

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(Individual involved in establishment, silviculture, fire)

This award recognises an individual who works within one of these areas across the forestry operations chain and demonstrates excellence beyond best practice guidelines.

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Demonstrate safety and/or environmental leadership
• Show evidence of expertise/specialisation
• Demonstrate a high quality of work output
• Show evidence of professional development (current and planned)
• Show recognition by peers and employers… (which is letters/videos/snapchat etc. of endorsement)

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This award recognises an individual who demonstrates excellence across a range of skills within the roading establishment chain beyond best practice guidelines

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Demonstrate safety and/or environmental leadership
• Show evidence of expertise/specialisation
• Demonstrate a high quality of work output
• Show evidence of professional development (current and planned)
• Show recognition by peers and employers… (which is letters/videos/snapchat etc. of endorsement)

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(Individual involved in harvesting crew)

This award recognises an individual who demonstrates an excellence across a range of skills within harvesting beyond best practice guidelines

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Demonstrate safety and/or environmental leadership
• Show evidence of expertise/specialisation
• Demonstrate a high quality of work output
• Show evidence of professional development (current and planned)
• Show recognition by peers and employers… (which is letters/videos/snapchat etc. of endorsement)

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(Individual involved as with dispatch and/or port workers)

This award recognises an individual who works within the distribution supply chain and demonstrates excellence beyond best practice guidelines.

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Demonstrate safety and/or environmental leadership
• Show evidence of expertise/specialisation
• Demonstrate a high-quality work output
• Show evidence of professional development (current and planned)
• Show recognition by peers and employers… (which is letters/videos/social media etc. of endorsement)

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(Individual)

This award recognises an individual who demonstrates excellence across a range of skills beyond best practice guidelines and essentially “over and above” in any area of primary wood processing such as sawmilling, debarking, saw doctoring, and peeling.

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Demonstrate safety and/or environmental leadership
• Show evidence of expertise/specialisation
• Demonstrate a high quality of work output
• Show evidence of professional development (current and planned)
• Show recognition by peers and employers… (which is letters/videos/snapchat etc. of endorsement)

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(Individual)

This award recognises an individual who demonstrates excellence across a range of skills beyond best practice guidelines and essentially “over and above” in any area of secondary wood processing such as drying, treating, machining and engineered wood processing.

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Demonstrate safety and/or environmental leadership
• Show evidence of expertise/specialisation
• Demonstrate a high quality of work output
• Show evidence of professional development (current and planned)
• Show recognition by peers and employers… (which is letters/videos/snapchat etc. of endorsement)

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(Individual)

This award recognises an individual who works in felling trees in mechanical or manual operations and demonstrates excellence beyond best practice guidelines.

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Demonstrate safety and/or environmental leadership
• Show evidence of expertise/specialisation
• Demonstrate a high-quality of work output
• Show evidence of professional development (current and planned)
• Show recognition by peers and employers… (which is letters/videos/social media etc. of endorsement)

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(Individual)

This award recognises an individual woman, who demonstrates excellence across a range of skills beyond best practise guidelines and essentially “over and above” in any area of the timber industry – logistics, harvesting, processing, safety, distribution, silviculture etc.

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Demonstrate a high quality of work output
• Demonstrate productivity in their work output
• Show evidence of on-going training
• Comply with environmental and health & safety practises
• Be recognised by their peers and employers
• ​Show good character being positive, honest and reliable

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(Includes an individual that is involved as a log truck driver only)

This award recognises an individual who works as a log truck driver and demonstrates excellence beyond best practice guidelines.

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Demonstrate a high-quality of work output
• Demonstrate productivity in their work output
• Show evidence of ongoing training
• Comply with environmental and health & safety practises
• Be recognised by their peers and employers
• Show good character by being positive, honest and reliable

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This award recognises any individual employee who has excelled in an elected skilled professional section but has only been in the industry for a minimum of two years. This award can only be won once by an individual.

To be eligible for this award the trainee must:

• Demonstrate safety and/or environmental awareness
• Show evidence of potential expertise/specialisation
• Demonstrate a high quality of work output
• Show evidence of professional development (current and planned)
• Show recognition by peers and employers… (which is letters/videos/snapchat etc of endorsement)

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This award is open to families with two or more immediate family members working within the industry. This can extend to all parts of the industry including trucks, a mill or the port. When supplying information for each of the criteria below please describe how or why this family is exceptional. What do they do that makes them stand out and be such good role models?

To be eligible for this award the family must:

• Demonstrate safety and/or environmental leadership (within crew/ business/industry).
• Demonstrate business investment/value/innovation.
• Show evidence of expertise/specialisation
• Demonstrate a high quality of work output
• Demonstrate contribution to the community …
• Be indorsed by peers, forest owner or manager (which is letters/ videos/snapchat etc. of endorsement)

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This award recognises an individual or company that demonstrates above and beyond standard innovation whether it be product, performance or process that is innovative and has positive productive outcomes to add value to the forestry supply chain.

To be eligible for this award the individual/company must:

• Demonstrate innovative qualities
• Demonstrate significant investment/value/innovation
• Show evidence of significant success outcomes that can be translated to others
• Show recognition by peers/employers/industry… (which is letters/videos/social media etc. of endorsement)

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This award recognises the performance of an individual or company that demonstrates above and beyond the general compliance of health and safety policies and regulations within the forestry industry.

To be eligible for this award the individual/company must:

• Demonstrate safety leadership (within crew/ business/industry).
• Demonstrate safety investment/value/innovation.
• Show evidence of sound practices that foster a culture where health and safety performance is improved through learning.
• Show recognition by peers/employers/industry… (which is letters/videos/social media etc. of endorsement)

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This award recognises the performance of an individual or company that demonstrates above and beyond the general compliance of environmental management rules and regulations within the forestry industry.

To be eligible for this award the individual/company must:

• Demonstrate environmental leadership (within crew/ business/industry).
• Demonstrate environmental investment/value/innovation.
• Show evidence of sound practices that foster a culture where environmental performance is improved through learning.
• Show recognition by industry/community stakeholders (which is letters/videos/social media etc. of endorsement)

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This award recognises an individual for being a leader in their field of expertise, demonstrating excellence in professional skills, attitude & attributes are recognised by their peers and employers, and is of genuine good character.

To be eligible for this award the individual must have been awarded one of the following certificates from this year’s awards:

• Forestry Excellence
• Roading Excellence
• Harvesting Excellence
• Distribution Excellence
• Primary Wood Processing Excellence
• Secondary Wood Processing Excellence
• Tree Faller Excellence
• Woman in Forestry Excellence
• Log Truck Driver Excellence

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Recognise a person within the forest industry for a good deed, for paying it forward, for helping others or for supporting a charity through an initiative or action. Just someone who does something for someone else without thinking about themselves. Yes, it is over and beyond the call of duty actions we are looking for.

Nominate them here and on the night of the awards, we will ask for the people to choose their winner, votes counted and the person acknowledged with a perpetual trophy and miniature to keep

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