Sellafield safety competition winners revealed
Over the summer we invited children of our employees, contractors, and wider community to help us create safety road signs for the Sellafield site.
Sellafield safety 'Sam the Snail' competition winners
Inspired by the theme ‘Sam the Snail’, 238 young people submitted drawings designed to encourage people working on the nuclear site to drive safely so that they could return home to loved ones, injury free.
Our chief executive, Euan Hutton, full time safety representative, Neil Edmondson, Elizabeth Wordsworth from next gen executive, James Lewis from Programme and Project Partners, and Suzanne Pender from our employee-led Family Network, had the difficult task of choosing the winners.
They chose an outright winner in each of the 2 age categories. They were 6-year-old Remi in the 0 to 6 age category and 9-year-old Emily in the 7 to 12 age category.
The judges also created a shortlist of 20 snails from which employees voted for 6-year-old Ivy as their People’s Vote winner.
The 'Sam the Snail' winning designs
All 3 winners shared the inspiration behind their designs.
Remi said:
I’m excited for my picture to be a road sign at Sellafield so that other people and my mammy and daddy can see it when they go to work.
Emily said:
I came up with the drawing because in the area where my mum works, she said there’s quite a few builders, so I thought; why don’t I do my snail wearing all the builder outfits.
Ivy said:
I like drawing cartoon characters using YouTube videos ‘How to draw-step-by-step.’ Thank you for everyone that voted for my Sam the Snail.
Their designs will now be turned into road signs on the Sellafield site, and traffic stickers at Hinton House in Warrington.