3M-ACRS Diamond Road Safety Award

Australasia's premier road safety award.

In 2011, 3M and ACRS joined forces to create Australasia’s premier road safety award, the 3M-ACRS Diamond Road Safety Award, to recognise people and projects who provide exemplary innovation and effectiveness to save lives and injuries on roads.

The 3M-ACRS Diamond Road Safety award calls for road safety practitioners from the public or private sectors to submit highly innovative, cost-effective road safety initiatives/programmes which they have recently developed that stand out from standard.

This award is Australasia’s premier road safety award recognising an outstanding road trauma reduction project.

Nominations for the 2023 ACRS Awards will open in May 2023. The winners will be announced at Conference Dinner during the 2023 Australasian Road Safety Conference.

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Conditions of Entry

    1. Information on ‘how to enter’ and prize information form part of these Conditions of Entry. Entry into this competition is deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, the decisions of the Australasian College of Road Safety (ACRS) and that you satisfy all eligibility requirements.
    2. ACRS (ABN 12 841 412 581) (the ‘Promoter’) reserve the right to cancel, amend, terminate, modify or withdraw the Competition (and related Terms and Conditions) at any time.
    3. ACRS can be contacted on [email protected].
    4. All entries must be received in full by 5pm (AEST) 29th July 2022.
    5. Entry is free and open to Australian and New Zealand residents.
    6. Employees and the immediate families of the Promoter and agencies associated with this competition are not eligible to enter or win.
    7. Enter between 9:00 am AEST 31 May 2022 until 5:00 pm AEST 29 July 2022. Entries received by the Promoter after the end of the Promotion Period shall not be eligible to take part in the promotion.
    8. To enter, applicants must complete the official online entry form.
    9. Multiple entries are not permitted.
    10. There are three (3) prizes available:
      1. The winner receives:
        • a return economy flight from an Australian or New Zealand port to the American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA) Annual Convention and Traffic Expo in the United States;
        • ATSSA convention registration
        • a return economy flight from ATSSA location to the 3M Global Headquarters located in St Paul, Minnesota, United States;
        • accommodation while in the United States;
        • the opportunity to present on their winning entry and USA trip at the following ACRS Road Safety Conference;
        • A trophy and certificate
      2. Two (2) Highly Commended winners will each receive:
        • A trophy and certificate
    11. The prize cannot be sold, transferred, exchanged or redeemed for cash. The prize values are correct as at the date of preparing these Terms and Conditions. The Promotor is not responsible for any change in prize value. The winner agrees that if a prize (or element of a prize) is unavailable for any reason, the Promoter may provide another item in its absolute discretion.
    12. Terms and conditions of any prize tickets must be adhered to. Any incidental expenses on the prize including additional charges incurred for any deviation from the itinerary and all other ancillary costs are the responsibility of the winner.
    13. Entrants must not: tamper with the entry process; engage in any conduct that may jeopardise the fair and proper conduct of the Promotion; act in a disruptive, annoying, threatening, abusive or harassing manner; do anything that may diminish the good name or reputation of the Promoter or companies associated with this Promotion; breach any law; or behave in a way that is otherwise inappropriate.
    14. The Promoter reserves the right to, at any time, verify an entry or entrant and disqualify an entrant the Promoter has reason to believe has submitted an entry not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
    15. The Promoter shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever which is suffered (including but not limited to indirect or consequential loss) or for personal injury that is sustained in connection with the prize, except for any liability which cannot be excluded by law.
    16. The Promoter is not responsible for: (i) lost, late, misdirected, damaged, illegible or incomplete entries; or (ii) error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of or failure to receive entry information by the Promoter on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or any combination thereof; or (iii) any injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in the Competition.
    17. The Promoter reserves the right to cancel the Competition if it becomes technically corrupted (including if a computer virus, bot or system malfunction unilaterally impairs its ability to conduct the Competition), and to select winner from among all eligible entries received prior to withdrawal.
    18. This competition is a game of skill and chance plays no part in determining the winner. The selection will be made by a panel of three (3) road safety experts (the ‘Judging Panel’) by 31 August, 2022. Judging takes place at the Australasian College of Road Safety, Building 1, Pearce Community Centre, Collett Place, Pearce, ACT, 2607, Australia. Each entry will be judged on creative merit and originality. All judging decisions are as determined by the Promoter, in their absolute discretion. The Promoter’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
    19. The winners will be notified by phone and /or email and will be required to return an email confirmation of prize acceptance within 7 days of notification. If the prize is not accepted within the specified 7 days an alternate winner will be selected from all remaining eligible entries.
    20. It is the responsibility of the winning artists to declare, if relevant, such winnings as income to their local tax authorities and the winning artists shall be wholly liable for any taxes payable and shall indemnify and hold the Promoter safe and harmless from all claims relating to such taxes and charges. The Promoter shall in no circumstances be liable for any taxes payable on such awards.
    21. The Promoter and any other person or party associated with this Promotion shall not be liable for any loss (including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss), damage, personal injury or death which is suffered or sustained (including but not limited to that arising from any person’s negligence) in connection with the Promotion or taking any prize or using any prize, except any liability that cannot be excluded by law (in which case that liability is limited to the minimum allowable by law).
    22. Without limiting the previous paragraph, the Promoter and the agencies and companies associated with this Promotion are not liable for any loss of, damage to or delay in delivery of the prize.
    23. By entering the competition, the entrant consents to the Promoter disclosing their submission to 3M Australia Pty Limited, and any part of that entry or supporting materials supplied with entries may be used for future promotional purposes of the 3M Award.
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