2019 was a spectacular yr for Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd. on the
RoSPA Well being & Security Awards. In addition to being Extremely Recommended within the Well being & Security Staff of the Yr, in addition they achieved a RoSPA Gold Achievement Award.
Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd. first entered the RoSPA Awards again in 2017, successful a Silver RoSPA Award. Since then, they’ve continued to enter, pushing themselves to win a Gold Award in 2018 after which once more in 2019. We spoke to Kieran Doona, Well being and Security Supervisor at Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd. to search out out extra about their awards journey during the last three years…
What advantages does successful a RoSPA Award have to your organisation?
Being acknowledged as a winner on the RoSPA Awards is vastly helpful for our firm’s popularity and profile, each with purchasers, the broader public and our personal workers. Benchmarking ourselves towards the Awards yearly is an effective way of reflecting on our efficiency over the earlier yr and specializing in all of the issues we have accomplished nicely. Recognition as a Gold Award winner additionally sends out a powerful sign that we’re a excessive performing group that’s massively obsessed with security and actually look after the wellbeing of our staff. Attaining Gold did not occur in a single day. We put quite a lot of work into our submissions over a variety of years and the suggestions from RoSPA was actually useful on how we might tweak and enhance year-on-year.
Which progressive approaches, threat evaluation practices and/or management measures to handle well being and security are you significantly pleased with?
Over the previous variety of years, we have been significantly pleased with our concentrate on the bodily and psychological well being of our workers, which is so essential within the fashionable high-pressure work surroundings. The smartest thing about it’s that we have had quite a lot of enjoyable doing it. You will be actually inventive in developing with methods to advertise higher well being to employees. For instance, we have held 5-aside soccer matches, stroll at work schemes, wholesome lunch days, employees bowling nights, consciousness workshops and employees well being screening days. These have been nice for morale and supply a perfect alternative for workers to get to know each other higher.
Can you share any outcomes out of your group’s strategy to well being and security administration?
Our strategy to well being and security administration is very targeted in direction of steady enchancment, altering attitudes and enhancing our tradition. While concentrate on lagging indicators (accidents, incidents) is essential, we attempt to preserve a balanced strategy by placing equal emphasis on main indicators (coaching, inspections, good practices, awards and many others). We’ve discovered that competing within the RoSPA Awards has been actually good for nurturing this balanced strategy through the years. The questions are at all times up to date to replicate the ever-changing nature of well being and security, so it retains us aligned with finest apply.
How have the RoSPA Awards impressed you/your group to repeatedly enhance well being and security administration?
Once we first entered a few years again, we have been actually blissful to win a Silver Award. After a few years, we bought extra bold and actually needed to win Gold, which we achieved with some invaluable suggestions and help from RoSPA. In 2019, we pushed ourselves once more and determined to enter two award classes. We have been delighted to win a Gold Achievement Award and a extremely really helpful award within the Well being & Security Staff of the Yr class. We have already registered for the 2020 Awards and have determined to push ourselves to win a Building Sector Award subsequent yr. That is the beauty of the RoSPA Awards, there’s one thing for everybody and the optimistic reinforcement of success actually drives you to repeatedly enhance year-on-year.
What do you get pleasure from most concerning the RoSPA Awards?
The anticipation of ready for the Award end result to return by is admittedly exhilarating, significantly if you’ve put quite a lot of effort into the submission. It is also quite a lot of enjoyable sharing the end result to employees and Administrators because the submission actually is a workforce effort. I get an excellent buzz out of that yearly. The Awards ceremony itself can be a implausible event with corporations from everywhere in the world current to gather their trophies and certificates. It is clear when a consultant goes as much as gather their award that the acknowledgment means lots to them. I do know it means lots to us.
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