Every year the MSAV presents the Jim Alcock Award to two ‘Members of the Year’ in recognition of their contribution to supporting their colleagues in the workplace through the work of the MSAV. Jim was a medical scientist and later an industrial officer with the MSAV. .

The awards for 2006-2007 went to Cathy Hannant from Austin Health and Denise Herbert from the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. Both Cathy and Denise have been the ‘go to’ person for members at their workplace, and strong MSAV job representatives. The MSAV would not be such an effective organisation without the commitment of members such as Cathy and Denise.