{"id":673,"date":"2026-07-10T09:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=673"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:49:05","slug":"provosts-awards-for-excellence-in-health-and-safety-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/07\/10\/provosts-awards-for-excellence-in-health-and-safety-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Provost\u2019s Awards for Excellence in Health and Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/safety\/safety-by-topic\/provosts-awards-for-excellence-in-health-and-safety\/\"><strong>Provost\u2019s Awards for Excellence in Health and Safety<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0recognise individuals and teams whose efforts have resulted in significant improvements to health and safety in the university over the past year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Individual award winner: Dominic Smith, Department of Infectious Disease<\/p>\n<p>Team award winner: Ideas Lab team<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greg Hamlet<\/li>\n<li>Ingrid Logan-Rivers<\/li>\n<li>Ben Surtees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Special Recognition Award for Excellence in Health &amp; Safety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Award winner: Dr John-Paul Latham, Department of Earth Science and Engineering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Provost\u2019s Awards for Excellence in Health and Safety\u00a0recognise individuals and teams whose efforts have resulted in significant improvements to health and safety in the university over the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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