Health and safety
Health and safety photo contest
Submit a photo for a chance to win!
Help promote health and safety within our Faculty! Share your picture on Instagram or Facebook for a chance to win an amazing Amazon prize!
The Faculty of Engineering is looking for creative photos that display how integrating health and safety practices in day-to-day workplace or classroom environments is easy but so important.
Prizes
The winners of the contest will be announced March 14, 2018 at the Health and Safety Keynote Speech.
- 1st prize: $200 Amazon Gift Card
- 2nd prize: $100 Amazon Gift Card
- 3rd prize: $50 Amazon Gift Card
How to participate
To participate, contestants must follow these four steps:
- Take a picture
- Take a picture that relates to health and safety best practices and/or procedures. The picture must not display a dangerous practice or put your life in danger in any way. Pictures taken in uOttawa labs, classrooms, campus, etc., are preferred.
- Create your post
- Create a post on Instagram or Facebook. Come up with a very creative caption or tagline for your post to describe how the picture depicts faculty health and safety procedures.
- Tag your post
- Instagram: Tag @Genie_engineering_uottawa and use the contest hashtag #UOEngHealthandSafety
- Facebook: Tag @uOttawa Genie Engineering and use the contest hashtag #UOEngHealthandSafety
- Share your post
- Upload the picture to Instagram or Facebook between Monday, January 29 and Friday, March 2, 2018 for a chance to win!
To be eligible for this contest, participants must be undergraduate or graduate students at the University of Ottawa, within the Faculty of Engineering for the Winter 2018 session.
Contest rules and judging criteria
Examples of best practices or procedures showcased via picture include:
- Wearing appropriate personal protective equipment
- Safe handling of equipment and hazardeous materials (e.g. nitrogen, cylinders, etc.)
- Following laboratory safety procedures
- Knowing a classroom’s emergency exits, spill kits, first aid kits, etc.
Pictures and captions should convey the message of exercising appropriate health & safety methods in a lab, classroom or office setting. They will be judged by the Faculty of Engineering according to the following criteria:
- Relevance of health and safety best practices or procedures
- Visually pleasing
- Creativity
- Appropriate language – no submissions with any innapropariate language or negative/improper connotation will be considered.
- Submissions must not increase nor compromise the contestants personal health and safety.They must not put themselves in a place of danger for the sake of displaying wrongful procedures. All photos considered to be self-endagering will be disqualified.
For all contest questions and concerns, please contact:
Meaghan Green
Communications and Marketing Officer
Faculty of Engineering
meaghan.green@uOttawa.ca
613.562.588 x 8565