Awards & Recognition
CII-EHS Platinum Awards
Highest Honour- Qualification Threshold: Only top 10 high scored Mastery Award recipients are eligible.
- Presentation: These 10 top scoring companies to give a 30-min presentation to the CII Awards Committee. The Committee would again shortlist 5 companies for site visit.
- Site-visit: Shortlist 5 companies for a final on-site review to determine one “Platinum Award” winner.
- Framework: A separate framework for Platinum will be used for evaluation and winner selection.
CII-EHS Mastery Awards
Beyond Compliance- Purpose: To honour organizations that demonstrate exceptional, beyond-compliance EHS excellence, leadership innovation, and integration of sustainability and business strategy into EHS culture.
- Eligibility: Open to organizations that have previously won a Gold Awards years in the past.
- Recognition: CII-EHS Mastery Awards.
- Qualification Threshold: Organizations must achieve a minimum assessment rating of 95% to be eligible for CII-EHS Mastery Awards.
- Framework: A standard EHS assessment framework will be used as the foundation for evaluation. However, organizations demonstrating exceptional EHS practices, leadership innovation, community and stakeholder engagement, supply chain integration, benchmarking excellence, and culture transformation, budget consideration, reflecting the integration of sustainability and business strategy into the EHS culture, will additionally be evaluated.
- MSME Nomination: For the CII EHS Mastery Awards, each participating organization must nominate at least one MSME supplier or vendor for the CII EHS MSME Awards to encourage broader MSME participation.
CII-EHS Maturity Awards
Structured Growth- Purpose: To recognize organizations that have established and are strengthening their Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) systems through structured processes, compliance, and continuous improvement.
- Eligibility: Organizations with established EHS systems.
- Recognition: Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards.
- Sectoral Recognition: Sectoral toppers will be recognized in Maturity and Mastery Awards.
- Qualification Threshold: Organizations must achieve a minimum assessment rating of 90% for Gold, 85% for Silver, and 80% for Bronze.
- Framework: Assessment based on process maturity, compliance, and continuous and measurable improvement, consistency, evidence.
CII-EHS MSME Awards
Inclusive Excellence- Purpose: Recognizes small and medium enterprises for effective EHS practices within resource constraints.
- Eligibility: MSMEs demonstrating strong EHS systems, compliance & improvement initiatives.
- Recognition: CII-EHS MSME Awards.
- Qualification Threshold: Organizations must achieve a minimum assessment rating of 75% to be eligible for CII-EHS MSME Awards.
- Framework: The separate Assessment Framework covers key areas of EHS management, compliance, and performance improvement aligned to the scale of MSME operations would be used for evaluation.
Special Recognition
CII-EHS Spotlight Awards
Recognising exceptional projects and individuals who have created measurable and replicable impact in EHS.
CII-EHS Project Excellence Awards
- Purpose: Recognizes specific projects demonstrating innovation, impact, replicable and measurable results in EHS management.
- Eligibility: Projects undertaken by organizations with demonstrable EHS impact.
- Recognition: Best projects recognized in each relevant category.
- Qualification Threshold: Organizations must achieve a minimum assessment rating of 85% in the evaluation process to qualify for the EHS Project Excellence Awards.
CII-EHS Leadership Awards
- Purpose: Recognises senior leaders who have driven significant, measurable improvements in EHS performance, culture, and strategic integration across their organisations.
- Eligibility: Open to senior leaders (CXOs, Heads of EHS, Plant Heads, or equivalent) from participating organisations.
- Recognition: The winning leader will be honoured at the Awards Ceremony and featured in CII communications.
CII-EHS Women Leaders / Women in EHS Awards
- Purpose: Celebrates women professionals who have delivered outstanding contributions to EHS through leadership, innovation, and measurable impact.
- Eligibility: Open to women Leaders and EHS professionals from any organisational level who have demonstrable achievements in EHS initiatives.
- Recognition: The winning leader will be honoured at the Awards Ceremony and featured in CII communications.
Evaluation Process (Applicable to all the above 3 Awards)
Level-1
Virtual presentations to juries for shortlisting
Level-2
Presentations to the Award Committee at the Award Ceremony for final selection