Health & safety bulletin
Addressing Hazards At Source
7th January 2010
At our annual health & safety awareness day on 11th December, we celebrated the success of some of our top performing teams at the Hilton Hotel, Maidstone.
We are now in our 8th year of trading, and from the start have pushed hard to add value to our customers by addressing hazards at source to prevent injury or harm occurring. We have also aimed to add value by saving them the cost of calling-out another contractor to make safe.
Whilst our efforts to raise awareness showed an increase in near miss/hazard spots of 282% year-on-year, what was particularly impressive was the number of hazards where we were able to eliminate the risk at source by dealing with it ourselves.
Having now captured and reviewed the statistics from the last month of 2009, I can confirm that we addressed and eliminated the risk totally on 121 near miss/hazard spots (an increase of 484% on last year's figures) and controlled or significantly reduced the risk (pending further action) on 35 (an increase of 233%).
Personally, I am very proud of our achievements and to have actually made more than 150 potential hazards safe (or safer), and almost certainly stopping several people from being hurt (or in some cases killed) is another benchmark for our company.
Analysis of our incident data indicates that the highest chance of one of our employees having a recordable or reportable incident is likely in the first quarter of our year, so please be alert and don't fall ‘asleep at the wheel’.
Thank you for your hard work and vigilance in 2009, and I hope that we can make 2010 even safer for us, our colleagues, contractors and customers.