RoSPA Press Office : Press Release

May 17, 1999
RoSPA CELEBRATES GAINING INVESTORS IN PEOPLE STATUS

Leading safety organisation, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, is celebrating after receiving high profile recognition for its staff recruitment, training and development programmes.

The Society has been awarded Investors In People status to mark its commitment to training and development and best practice.

Linda Turner, RoSPA Human Resources Manager, said: "IIP is the national standard which sets the level of best practice for improving an organisation’s performance through its employees.

"Over the past two years, we have completely revamped the way we recruit our people, rewritten job descriptions, carried out skills audits and introduced performance appraisals with a clear focus on training and development.

"Our training and development plan was developed in conjunction with our business plan so that training is no longer an ad-hoc activity but is clearly linked to corporate aims and objectives and addresses the personal objectives of our staff.

"Achieving Investors in People recognises the work we have done in terms of training and developing our staff, and provides an effective framework to bring about the desired culture change throughout the Society.

"The standard also offers the opportunity to review current training and development against best practice. It provides an accurate audit of current strengths and weaknesses, a framework for planning future strategy and action, and a structured way to improve the effectiveness of training and development activities."

The IIP Standard was developed during 1990 by the National Training Task Force in partnership with leading national business, personnel, professional and employee organisations, such as the Confederation of British Industry and the Trades Union Congress.