Laurie Lavelle Achiever of the Year Award

Nominations for 2012 will open in June/July 2012.

The objective of the award is to recognise the efforts of an individual who has undertaken a role within an AFAC member agency that has contributed significantly to enhancing the knowledge or skills, operations, performance or public profile in the emergency services sector in Australasia.

As agreed by Council, nominations are restricted to one per agency with the primary prize being a $1,500 sponsorship to attend the annual AFAC/Bushfire CRC Conference where the nominee will receive the award. The recipient also receives $1,000 cash in recognition of their effort over and above their normal role. The Laurie Lavelle Award is open to all agency personnel.

This Achiever of the Year Award was first introduced in 1997 by Laurie Lavelle to recognise individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to emergency services in any one year.

Previous winners: co-winners 2011: Quinlan Webster of NZ Fire Service and Leon Smith of Tasmania Fire Service; 2010: Russell Shephard of AFAC and Arthur Tindall of SA CFS; 2009: Julie Harris of MFB