From their Safety, Sustainability and Coaching Director, Steven Broom, being awarded 
Well being and Safety Influencer of the Yr 2019, to successful a variety of President and Gold Medal Awards throughout quite a lot of divisions, Dyer & Butler Ltd loved an excellent 2019.
As one of many first winners of the Influencer of the Yr Award, we lately caught up with Steven to search out out Dyer & Butler Ltd’s spectacular awards historical past, and the way successful a RoSPA Award has benefited each himself and his organisation…
What advantages does successful a RoSPA Award have to your organisation?
RoSPA is a well-respected model for the development of security requirements throughout the 
business and the affiliation that we’ve got had with RoSPA through the years underpins our dedication to sustaining these requirements inside our organisation. The advantage of having the ability to present that we’re RoSPA award winners offers us with an immediately recognisable stage of accomplishment, which demonstrates that our firm places the well being, security and wellbeing of our staff first and above all else.
Which revolutionary approaches, threat evaluation practices and/or management measures to handle well being and security are you significantly happy with?
I’m typically heard to say that “there is nothing new in health and safety”, and for probably the most half, that is true as a result of a number of good well being and security administration includes the upkeep of sturdy insurance policies and preparations which might be then applied, reviewed and improved over time. This facet of the job won’t ever change. Nonetheless, innovation in well being and security has grow to be so necessary and corporations are actually striving to make well being and security simpler, extra dependable and in the end safer for the individuals concerned by taking the guesswork and human issue out of the situation. Not too long ago we launched a smartphone-based shut name reporting app. This was designed by our personal I.T technician and the response that we’ve got had by way of our shut name and security reporting tradition has been phenomenal. The introduction of the app has allowed individuals to create the secure behavior of having the ability to immediately establish and report (with accompanying photographs and site particulars) something that’s inflicting them concern. This has had an enormous constructive impact on the way in which that we handle well being and security inside Dyer & Butler and has allowed us to maneuver our focus from the reactive administration of incidents to a extra proactive means which permits us to take care of the pre-cursor to occasions that might probably result in a extra vital loss-making occasion.
Can you share any outcomes which have come out of your organisation’s method to well being and security administration?
Sharing greatest follow and studying might be one of many biggest instruments that an organisation has and I’ve personally tried to dwell by this throughout my profession in well being
and security. I’ve all the time believed that behavioural security is the important thing to good security administration and while it’s not a “silver bullet”, the act of getting out and speaking to individuals is such an necessary a part of the job. It’s typically the case that our preconceived concepts of how one thing ought to be accomplished safely are utterly turned on their head while you communicate to the individual that truly has to do the job and it is just then that you just get to grasp the problems and issues related to really getting the job accomplished safely. It’s only by understanding this, and the method that your staff will take by way of reacting to work-based conditions to get the job accomplished will you perceive why accidents and incidents happen. Coaching can also be an enormous a part of this. I additionally suppose that good well being and security administration is about always reviewing and refreshing what you might be doing. Issues might really feel as if they’re going OK…however don’t permit your self to sit down again and settle into a cushty routine as the subsequent massive occasion might solely be simply across the nook. Hold your security tradition sharp and be always trying and adapting your method to threat.
How have the RoSPA Awards impressed you/your organisation to repeatedly enhance well being and security administration?
I view the RoSPA awards very very similar to a set of steps. The achievement awards have offered our firm with a pure type of development and have required us to keep up our security requirements. As we’ve got now achieved a gentle momentum of security throughout the enterprise, this has now led us to take a look at among the different awards the place we imagine that we’re inside hanging distance of having the ability to win and supply additional 
proof that we’ve got attained an exemplary stage of security inside our enterprise.
Personally, to win the RoSPA Influencer of the Yr Award in 2019 was one of many highlights of my profession and after dedicating 23 years of my life to well being and security, I really feel immensely proud to have acquired this stage of endorsement from my colleagues and friends. I’ve by no means been one to shout about what I do, however the recognition of receiving a private award from RoSPA validates how necessary the work that I (and all the different well being and security professionals throughout the nation) do is to the business.
What do you get pleasure from most in regards to the RoSPA Awards?
The RoSPA Awards is all the time a fantastic occasion particularly as it’s co-located with The Safety & Health Expo. It’s a unbelievable alternative to satisfy new suppliers, take a look at new merchandise and innovation and if nothing else… simply to take a day trip to immerse your self in well being and security from a special perspective. The Awards Gala Dinner can also be a superb alternative to community and meet up with mates and colleagues and to have fun one another’s success. I’ve to say that the awards evenings are all the time effectively organised and are additionally a very good alternative to let your hair down on the finish of the night…sure, security professionals do wish to celebration typically…!
Occupied with becoming a member of this spectacular award successful neighborhood? The RoSPA Awards is open to organisations, tasks and websites throughout the globe, and is at the moment open for entries. For info on the awards and tips on how to enter, go to www.rospa.com/awards