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This award recognises an individual for leading in their field of expertise, demonstrating excellence in professional skills, attitude & attributes recognised by their peers and employers and of genuine good character

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Have been awarded one of the following certificates from this TOTS Forestry Awards

1. Forestry Excellence Award
2. Roading Excellence Award
3. Harvesting Excellence Award
4. Distribution Excellence Award
5. Wood Processing & Manufacturing Excellence Award
6. Tree Faller Excellence Award – Mechanised
7. Tree Faller Excellence Award – Manual
8. Woman in Forestry Award
9. Truck Driver Excellence
10. Breaker Out Excellence
11. Log Processor Excellence

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This award recognises an individual’s commitment to self-development and skill achievement through the NZ Apprenticeship programme

To be eligible for this award the trainee must:

• Demonstrate a successful and purposeful commitment to personal development through industry training. This includes a consistent training programme, culture and vision
• Have a Competenz training history of at least 2 years
• Have their nomination supported by the General Manager/Managing Director/ CEO or company principal

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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 commitment to self-development and skill achievement through industry training
• Have completed a minimum of 1 National Certificate in the training year 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022
• Be employed in the wood industry at the time of nomination
• Have their nomination supported by the General Manager/Managing Director/ CEO or company principal

NB: NZ Apprentices who are in a continuing NZ Apprenticeships programme or who completed their NZ Apprenticeship during the training year are not eligible

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This award recognises a company/contractor that demonstrate a successful and purposeful commitment to people development through industry training. The winner can demonstrate a consistent training programme, culture and vision

To be eligible for this award the company must:

• Demonstrate a successful and purposeful commitment to people development through industry training. This includes a consistent training programme, culture and vision
• Have a Competenz training history of at least 2 years. The company endorsement of Competenz training is evident through the Competenz training history of their employees
• Have their nomination supported by the General Manager/Managing Director/ CEO or similar of the nominating organisation

NB: Training provider organisations are not eligible for this award

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

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This award recognises an individual who demonstrates an excellence across a range of skills within harvesting including heavy equipment operators, QC’s and any positions held on the skid 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 on-going training
• Comply to environmental and health & safety practises
• Be recognised by their peers and employers
• Show good character with being positive, honest and reliable

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(Includes an individual that is involved in dispatch and port workers including log marshalling and stevedoring).

This award recognises an individual who works within one of these areas across the distribution chain 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 on-going training
• Comply to environmental and health & safety practises
• Be recognised by their peers and employers
• Show good character with being positive, honest and reliable

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This award recognises an individual who demonstrates an excellence across a range of skills within the wood processing & manufacturing chain 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 on-going training
• Comply to environmental and health & safety practises
• Be recognised by their peers and employers
• Show good character with being positive, honest and reliable

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

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Demonstrate a high quality of work output and productivity
• Must have a good working knowledge of local harvesting rules & regulations
• Demonstrate that they know how to use efficient felling and logging techniques
• Demonstrate a knowledge of local circumstances including weather and location
• Show evidence of on-going training
• Comply to environmental and health & safety practices
• Be recognised by their peers and employees
• Show good character with being positive, honest and reliable

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

To be eligible for this award the individual must:

• Demonstrate a high quality of work output and productivity
• Must have a good working knowledge of local harvesting rules & regulations
• Demonstrate that they know how to use efficient felling and logging techniques
• Demonstrate a knowledge of local circumstances including weather and location
• Show evidence of on-going training
• Comply to environmental and health & safety practices
• Be recognised by their peers and employees
• Show good character with being positive, honest and reliable

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This award recognises an individual woman, who demonstrates excellence across a range of skills beyond best practice 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 any truck driver within the forestry supply chain.)

This award recognises an individual who works as a 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 on-going training
• Comply to environmental and health & safety practises
• Be recognised by their peers and employers
• Show good character with being positive, honest and reliable

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This award recognises an individual who demonstrates excellence across a range of skills within the role of breaking out 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 on-going training
• Comply to 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 an individual who works with mechanical log processor operations 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 on-going training
• Comply to environmental and health & safety practises
• Be recognised by their peers and employers
• Show good character with being positive, honest and reliable

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This award recognises an entire crew that provides outstanding service to the forestry industry

To be eligible for this award the crew must:

• Deliver with conviction in areas of production, health & safety, and human resource management
• Deliver their service with a quality output
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills
• Be endorsed by forest owner or manager

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This award recognises 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:

• Meet the baseline Health & Safety standards as per the Approved Code of Practice for Health & Safety in forest operations and Competenz Best Practise Guidelines
• Have possibly managed a specific event with outstanding merit
• Have possibly demonstrated a new or innovative health & safety product which will be of advantage to industry

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This award recognises 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/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 industry.

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/snapchat etc. of endorsement)

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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 – then 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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The Top of the South see this award as a leader board for those that have made a difference to the industry locally and nationally and be recognised for what they have contributed to move the forest industry forward.

NOT OPEN FOR NOMINATION – Judges discretion

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