2019 was a spectacular 12 months for Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd. on the 
RoSPA Health & Safety Awards. In addition to being Extremely Recommended within the Well being & Safety Staff of the 12 months, additionally 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 Safety Supervisor at Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd. to seek out out extra about their awards journey over the past three years…
What advantages does successful a RoSPA Award have on your organisation?
Being recognised as a winner on the RoSPA Awards is vastly useful 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 12 months and specializing in all of the issues we’ve performed nicely. Recognition as a Gold Award winner additionally sends out a robust sign that we’re a excessive performing organisation that’s massively captivated with safety and actually care for the wellbeing of our employees. Reaching Gold didn’t occur in a single day. We put a number of work into our submissions over a lot of years and the suggestions from RoSPA was actually useful on how we may tweak and enhance year-on-year.
Which modern approaches, risk evaluation practices and/or management measures to handle health and safety are you notably happy with?
Over the previous variety of years, we’ve been notably happy with our concentrate on the bodily and mental health of our workers, which is so essential within the fashionable high-pressure work environment. The 
smartest thing about it’s that we’ve had a number of enjoyable doing it. You might be actually inventive in developing with methods to advertise higher health to employees. For instance, we’ve held 5-aside soccer matches, stroll at work schemes, wholesome lunch days, employees bowling nights, consciousness workshops and employees health screening days. These have been nice for morale and supply a great alternative for workers to get to know each other higher.
Can you share any outcomes out of your organisation’s method to health and safety administration?
Our method to health and safety administration is extremely centered in the direction of steady enchancment, altering attitudes and enhancing our tradition. While concentrate on lagging 
indicators (accidents, incidents) is essential, we attempt to hold a balanced method by placing equal emphasis on main indicators (coaching, inspections, good practices, awards and so forth). Now we have discovered that competing within the RoSPA Awards has been actually good for nurturing this balanced method through the years. The questions are all the time up to date to mirror the ever-changing nature of health and safety, so it retains us aligned with finest apply.
How have the RoSPA Awards impressed you/your organisation to repeatedly enhance health and safety administration?
After we first entered a few years again, we had been actually blissful to win a Silver Award. After a few years, we obtained extra bold and actually needed to win Gold, which we achieved with some invaluable suggestions and assist from RoSPA. In 2019, we pushed ourselves once more and determined to enter two award classes. We had been delighted to win a Gold Achievement Award and a extremely counseled award within the Well being & Safety Staff of the 12 months class. We’ve already registered for the 2020 Awards and have determined to push ourselves to win a Construction Sector Award subsequent 12 months. That’s the wonderful thing about the RoSPA Awards, there’s one thing for everybody and the constructive reinforcement of success actually drives you to constantly enhance year-on-year.
What do you get pleasure from most in regards to the RoSPA Awards?
The anticipation of ready for the Award end result to return via is actually exhilarating, notably while you’ve put a number of effort into the submission. It’s additionally a number of enjoyable sharing the 
end result to employees and Administrators because the submission actually is a staff effort. I get an incredible buzz out of that yearly. The Awards ceremony itself can also be a unbelievable event with firms from all around the world current to gather their trophies and certificates. It’s clear when a consultant goes as much as acquire their award that the acknowledgement means lots to them. I do know it means lots to us.
May your organisation go for Gold in 2020? Registrations are at present open for the 2020 RoSPA Health & Safety Awards. Merely go to the web site to seek out out extra. Wish to hear extra in regards to the RoSPA Awards? Compensate for all our posts within the ‘Meet the Winner’ sequence and learn how getting into the awards has benefitted different organisations.