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Frazer-Nash’s Sally Hall announced as Winner of Top 50 Women in Engineering Awards, Safety & Security 2023

23/06/2023
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This year’s Women’s Engineering Society (WES) ‘Top 50 Women in Engineering Awards’ celebrates female engineers who are engaged in safety and security and who ‘Make Safety Seen’.

This year’s Women’s Engineering Society (WES) ‘Top 50 Women in Engineering Awards’ celebrates female engineers who are engaged in safety and security and who ‘Make Safety Seen’.

Frazer-Nash is delighted to announce that Sally Hall, Senior Engineer, has been announced as a winner of the Top 50 Women in Engineering Awards, Safety & Security, which were announced by The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) today as part of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) 2023.

Now in its eighth year, the Women’s Engineering Society founded The Top 50 Women in Engineering Awards (WE50) in 2016 to showcase the diversity of women engineers making a difference to people’s lives. Each year WES chooses a different theme for the WE50 and INWED and for 2023 the theme for the WE50 was Safety and Security.

The 2023 Top 50 Women in Engineering Awards celebrate the women engineers who are engaged in safety and security and who #MakeSafetySeen. These amazing women work to keep us safe, wherever we are, whether at work or leisure, at home or online. Following in the footsteps the first WES Secretary, Dame Caroline Haslett, who invented the three-pin safety plug to protect children from electric shocks, the 2023 WE50 winners are women who are protecting the public through their work, often unseen and unknown.

Sally Hall, Senior Engineer, Frazer-Nash comments:

“It’s really exciting to have recognition for my work in Safety and Security. The work I do in these areas is part of a team so thank you to the European Spallation Source and the NNB Cyber team within Frazer-Nash and Our Tide externally for all their support and encouragement over the last year.”

Sarah Wilkes, Managing Director, Frazer-Nash commented:

“I’m delighted to see Sally recognised in this impressive and diverse group of women working in the engineering sector. Sally has displayed exemplary dedication in her day-to-day work in our Electrical Control and Instrumentation team, her volunteering to mentor engineers of the future and her involvement in the Our Tide educational charity exploring the potential for harnessing tidal energy. She embodies our driving passion at Frazer-Nash to make lives safe, secure, sustainable and affordable.”

Elizabeth Donnelly, CEO, Women’s Engineering Society, said of the awards:

“The women in this year’s WE50 list are a truly amazing group. Their work often goes unseen yet is key to keeping us all safe and secure. From the creation of a system being used to kill weeds with no chemicals, to providing safety leadership to the RNLI, the women we celebrate in these awards are all inspirational in their work. Each year the judges are always amazed at the breadth and talent of the nominations they receive and this year’s nominees more than lived up to expectations. We hope that these awards will inspire more women to get involved in engineering and show what a diverse and rewarding career it can be.”

The WE50 awards were judged by a panel of industry experts, and the number and standard of nominations were high, emphasising the exceptional achievements made by women in this field to keep the public safe and secure.

The WE50 Awards will be presented at an Afternoon Tea ceremony held on Friday 23 June 2023 at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.

About the Top 50 Women in Engineering Awards (WE50)

The WE50 is an awards programme created in 2016 by the Women’s Engineering Society to raise awareness of the skills shortage facing the industry, highlighting the huge discrepancy between the number of men vs. women currently in engineering professions. Each year, the WE50 has had a different theme, and has now recognised approximately 300 outstanding UK-based female engineers. www.wes.org.uk/we50

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