The SOE Safety & Resilience in Engineering Awards 2024 take place on 17 October at ThinkTank, Birmingham Museums. The event will be an opportunity to celebrate those visionaries – both individuals and organisations – at the forefront of groundbreaking technologies, innovations and solutions. Through their efforts, economies can thrive, road users are kept safe and future generations can live on a planet that has been cared for.
Safety and resilience are two major themes in the engineering community and experts are working hard on projects to ensure improvements are being made to make people’s lives easier. With that in mind, the awards will honour engineers, engineering leaders and companies that are making a difference. With 12 categories being decided at the awards, all bases will be covered – from road transport, to plant to personnel development. There are also accolades for the SOE volunteer of the year and also the region of the year.
Guest speakers will include Emma Thompson, designate executive director of the SOE, who will deliver the keynote address, with more names to be revealed before the event. Presiding over preceedings will be Roger Atkins, a ‘LinkedIn Top Voice for EV’ and founder of Electric Vehicles Outlook.
It would be remiss of me not to mention the supporters and sponsors of the SOE Safety & Resilience in Engineering Awards 2024. Our thanks and appreciation goes to: DAF Trucks; RHA; Net Zero Week 2025; Energy Security and Green Infrastructure Week 2024; SAFed; the Society for the Environment; and Beverley Bell Consulting and Training Services.
• October also welcomes ‘For The Sake Of Safety’, the new SOE podcast. Featuring judges involved in the Safety & Resilience in Engineering Awards and the winners, it is also classed as CPD content for members. For more details on the podcast, see next month’s issue.
Transport Engineer Editor John Challen
