RoSPA Press Office : Press Release

June 28, 2005
COMPANIES PRAISED FOR BEHAVIOURAL SAFETY SYSTEMS

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and Ryder Marsh* have honoured more than 30 businesses for the way they manage behavioural safety.

The top award – the Allan Poole Award for Outstanding Achievement – went to Kier Support Services of Sandy, Bedfordshire. Kier were chosen from four finalists by the 320-strong audience at the 5th Annual Behavioural Safety Best Practice Awards and User Conference in Manchester.

The awards are aimed at companies wishing to prove that they can demonstrate an effective and systematic approach to managing behavioural aspects of health and safety.

Roger Bibbings, RoSPA Occupational Safety Adviser, said: “Behavioural safety programmes are an important part of the overall health and safety risk management jigsaw.

“By involving managers and staff and enhancing skills and knowledge, organisations can breathe life into their formal health and safety management systems and help to create sustainable safety culture change.

“These awards not only recognise and celebrate achievement, they provide a powerful bank of exemplars and case studies which others can learn from and emulate.”

Other finalists were: Springfield Fuels Ltd, Preston; Pilkington, St Helens, Merseyside; and Sizewell A Power Station, Suffolk. They received achievement awards.

Other achievement awards were presented to: RWE npower, Generation and Renewables, Swindon, Wiltshire; 3M United Kingdom, Aycliffe, Co. Durham; URS Corporation Ltd, Chepstow, Monmouthshire; United Nigeria Network; Kier Building Maintenance, Barking, Essex; Moores Furniture Group Limited, Wetherby, West Yorkshire; Rethink, Fareham, Hants; HBG UK Ltd, London; M.W. Kellogg Ltd, Greenford, Middlesex; Scottish Power Generation Ltd (Generation UK), Glasgow; Star Energy Ltd, Sudbrooke, Lincoln; Xerox, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire; Wensley Roofing, Chester-Le-Street, Durham; Cattedown Wharves Ltd, Plymouth, Devon; AWE, Berkshire; Jacobs, Glasgow; ITC Ltd, India; Severn Trent Water, Warwick; Severn Trent Water, Finham Behavioural Initiative Team; Severn Trent Water, Derby; Severn Trent Water, Finham, Coventry; Uniq Prepared Foods, Paignton, Devon; Texaco Ltd and Wincanton, Chippenham, Wiltshire; Longbridge Childcare Strategy Group, Birmingham; Dow Corning, Barry; Nalco Fawley, Hythe; Atul; Avana Bakeries (Plumsett site), Newport, Gwent; Kellogg Manchester Plant; Ringway Group, Rotherham, South Yorkshire; Severn Trent Water, Hinckley; Severn Trent Water, Minworth.

*"Ryder-Marsh are European leaders in the field of behavioural safety. Tim Marsh, Managing Director of Ryder-Marsh, was one of the leaders of the initial research project into behavioural safety in the early 1990s. He conceived this open learning, networking and best practice event in 1998 as
an extension of this research.