The TT Innovation in Safety Award has been expanded to recognize the depth and variety of projects and products which abound in the industry to meet the challenge of reducing accidents and damaging losses. Four winners and four highly-commended entries were announced at last night’s presentation in London.
London, 27th February, 2025
Over the past ten years since its inception the ICHCA hosted TT Club Innovation in Safety Award has seen entries marked by a significantly increased diversity of innovative products, services and processes aimed at improving safety in the cargo handling industry.
As a result, TT and ICHCA have decided to divide the numerous entries into four distinct categories, each of which is represented by a winner and a highly-commended entrant.
These are for:
- Turning data into insight
Winner – Voxelfor its AI powered worksite visibility platform
Highly-commended — Pandora Intelligencefor itsCargo Intelligence: Data-driven risk assessment of shipments
- Learning and engagement
Winner – International Transport Workers’ Federation and ITF Seafarers’ Trustfor itsInternational App-based worker training programme
Highly-commended – Port Skills and Safety Ltdfor itsEmergency Flash Cards
- Making operations safer
Winner – RAM Spreadersfor itsAutomatic pipe handling spreader
Highly-commended — CEPA cvfor its Ergonomic lashing tool
- Segregating people and machine
Winner – Straatman Mooring Systemsfor its Permanent bollard with sensors
Highly-commended — SSA Marinefor its AI driven RTG camera system
In announcing the successful innovations at a presentation ceremony in London last night, ICHCA’s CEO Richard Steele commented “As ever the judging panel felt that all the original ideas were worthy of congratulations, and further exposure. A complete Innovation in Safety Award Digest detailing all entries will therefore be once more published by ICHCA & TT in the near future.”
TT’s Managing Director, Loss Prevention Mike Yarwood commented, “The excellence of these , and many of the other innovations put forward deserve a greater degree of visibility. This is our prime aim in proliferating the Awards in order to encourage our innovators to seek scalability, and by giving their ideas oxygen to stimulate their adoption and adaption by others within the global cargo handling environment.”
While practical operational devices tended to be the focus of invention and improvement when the Awards were first introduced the intervening years have seen technology based solutions proliferate and advanced training and safety awareness programmes become increasingly effective.
Steele emphasises this development, “Such diversity of entries is truly welcomed. Safety innovation is an exciting element that compliments wide ranging industry work to establish distinct safety culture throughout organisations. A well-run safety-conscious operation is both efficient and sustainable. Running organisations successfully and doing safety well require truly visible and effective commitment from management at all levels.”
The Innovation in Safety Award is part of a continuing development of TT and ICHCA’s shared goal to bring together as wide an audience of like-minded professionals as possible; in order to share experiences of both risks to safety and the successful problem solving innovations they have developed. .
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About ICHCA International
Established in 1952, ICHCA International is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to improving the safety, productivity and efficiency of cargo handling and movement worldwide. ICHCA’s privileged NGO status enables it to represent its members, and the cargo handling industry at large, in front of national and international agencies and regulatory bodies, while its Technical Panel provides best practice advice and develops publications on a wide range of practical cargo handling issues.
Operating through a series of national and regional chapters, including ICHCA Australia, ICHCA Japan and plus Correspondence and Working Groups, ICHCA provides a focal point for informing, educating, lobbying and networking to improve knowledge and best practice across the cargo handling chain.
About TT Club
TT Club is the established market-leading independent provider of mutual insurance and related risk management services to the international transport and logistics industry. TT Club’s primary objective is to help make the industry safer and more secure. Founded in 1968, the Club has more than 1200 Members, spanning container owners and operators, ports and terminals, and logistics companies, working across maritime, road, rail, and air. TT Club is renowned for its high-quality service, in-depth industry knowledge and enduring Member loyalty. It retains more than 97% of its Members, with a third of its entire membership having chosen to insure with the Club for 20 years or more.
