Transport Department held the Bus Safety Excellence Award Ceremony 2025 to commend multidisciplinary staff of franchised bus operators with excellent performances in enhancing bus safety in daily operations, with a view to encouraging the trade to promote safety awareness with ongoing efforts.

The Excellence Award this year gave recognition to a total of 57 staff members, comprising 28 bus captains, six driving instructors, 12 inspectors/regulators and 11 engineers/mechanics from five teams. Among them, the engineer/mechanic teams competed in bus safety projects for the first time, with their entries assessed by the TD based on safety benefits, creativity and technological application.

Awardees in the other categories were nominated by FBOs and assessed by the TD. Regarding the assessment criteria, bus captains should have a clean traffic accident record and no driving offence records, and their driving attitude and skills were assessed. Driving instructors should provide effective safety training for bus captains while inspectors/regulators should maintain effective management of buses' daily operations.

The Permanent Secretary for Transport and Logistics, Mr Kevin Choi, speaking at the award ceremony	Photo of the officiating guests with representatives from the TD and franchised bus companies, awardees and guests
The officiating guests hosting the kick-off ceremony
The Permanent Secretary for Transport and Logistics, Mr Kevin Choi (centre), with winners of the Bus Captain Category	Member of the Legislative Council for the Transport Functional Constituency, Mr Frankie Yick (fourth right), with winners of the Bus Captain Category

The Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council Panel on Transport, Mr Yiu Pak-leung (third right), with winners of the Bus Captain Category	The Chairman of the Transport Advisory Committee, Professor Stephen Cheung (centre), with winners of the Driving Instructors Category
Independent Expert Member of the Committee on Enhancement of Franchised Bus Safety of the Transport Department , Professor Wong Sze-chun (centre), with winners of the Inspector/ Regulator Category
The Chief Superintendent of Police (Traffic) of the Hong Kong Police Force, Mr Leung Shun (third right), with winners of the Inspector/ Regulator Category	The Commissioner for Transport, Ms Angela Lee (sixth left), with winners of the Engineer/ Mechanic Category

Videos of the Bus Safety Excellence Award Ceremony 2025