The Ministry of Manpower and Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council organised the WSH Awards on 30 July 2010. The awards ceremony recognised 188 outstanding companies and individuals that achieved excellent WSH performance and practices in 2009. About 900 award winners and guests attended the awards ceremony.

Minister for Manpower, Mr Gan Kim Yong, noted that "Safety plays a key role in our current national push for higher productivity. Businesses need to operate more safely to reduce and eliminate productivity lost from workplace incidents. The Award winners who achieved strong WSH performance in 2009 had achieved either zero reportable work incidents in the whole year or at least a million man-hours without a reportable work incident. This is a great feat especially for companies that are large in scale and involved in complex operations."

The Chairman of the WSH Council, Mr Lee Tzu Yang, also stressed the importance and the role of the Council in engaging various stakeholders to enhance safety, such as management, WSH professionals, supervisors and workers.