If you ask any health and safety manager, they will say it is impossible to develop a truly effective health and safety culture in an organisation if you don’t have board-level participation. Participation is very different from buy-in where the board agrees to put in place a health and safety policy and then delegates all responsibility. Boards need to go … Read More
The Business Value of Health and Safety
We often see, quite naturally, businesses trying to justify the return they expect from their investment in health and safety products. With our own product, e-permits, it’s often based on time saving and other efficiencies arising from the replacement of paper systems. The safety benefits have to be supported by an ROI. A totally different approach has been taken by … Read More
How e.surv Changed their Culture to Protect Remote/Lone Workers
If you are in the property market, you will probably have come across e-surv. It conducts property surveys for mortgage lenders, house buyers, and others. Due to the nature of its work, 400 of its 700 employees are remote workers. Almost all of those remote workers operate alone. In addition, their job entails visiting multiple new locations every day, plus … Read More
Monitoring and Reviews (Culture Series Part 6 of 6)
This is the sixth and final part of our series on moving beyond compliance to improve the health and safety culture within your organisation. The articles on this blog are abridged versions of those in the complete eBook which you can download from Beyond Compliance: A Guide to Changing the Health and Safety Culture in Your Organisation. Feel free to … Read More
How Wessex Water Used Dynamic Risk Assessments
This is the second in our series of posts focused on health and safety successes and illustrates the use of dynamic risk assessments to safeguard workers working remotely in small teams. It’s common for companies to introduce significant health and safety initiatives because of a negative event – a major accident, for example, or a critical report. It is unusual, … Read More
Training, Business Learning, and Knowledge Transfer (Culture Series Part 5 of 6)
This is the fifth part of our six part series on improving the health and safety culture of your organization. This post focuses on training, business learning and knowledge transfer. The full, more detailed, eBook can be downloaded here. Delivering health and safety training programmes to employees at all levels of your company is essential. However, this applies to any … Read More
Celebrating Health and Safety Success (Cougar Automation)
I’m sure we all have Google feeds on health and safety and have subscribed to blogs and news sites to keep abreast of what’s happening in UK health and safety. And every day we learn of new fines and occasionally jail sentences for those running foul of the law. While not everything is rosy, trends are good and there are … Read More
Communication, Motivation, and Employee Involvement (Culture Series Part 4 of 6)
Welcome to the fourth of six posts providing practical and actionable steps to improve the health and safety culture in your organisation. This post focuses on the communication of health and safety policies together with employee motivation and involvement. All of these posts are sampled from our free eBook: Beyond Compliance: A Guide to Changing the Health and Safety Culture in … Read More
Banyard Solutions’ Alan Gunn Collects Key Safety Award
Photo caption (L to R): Alan Gunn of Banyard Solutions and Chair of Safety Group West Scotland (SGWS); Jane Murdoch, Vice Chair of the Scottish Chamber of Safety (SCoS); Norman Stevenson, Chair of Safety Groups UK (SGUK) & Chair SCoS; and John Sproul, Secretary of the SGWS. Banyard Solutions’ Alan Gunn was a special guest at the House of Lords … Read More
Asbestos – Out with the Old, and in with the (er) Old
And so it continues. 2018 has begun with three high profile stories on exposing employees and contractors to asbestos fibres and the associated seeming disregard for safety. Firstly, SSE Hornsea Ltd were fined £300K after 13 employees and contractors were exposed to asbestos fibres after 3 of them performed routine mechanical maintenance on a compressed air distribution system. HSE Inspector … Read More
Getting C-Suite and Board Level Buy-In (Culture Series Part 3 of 6)
Welcome to the third of six posts providing practical and actionable steps to improve the health and safety culture in your organisation. This post focuses on how to get board level buy-in and, more than that, to provide the leadership needed to dramatically impact culture. All of these posts are sampled from our free eBook: Beyond Compliance: A Guide to … Read More
Safety Should Never Be A Priority…
…it should be a pre-condition for organisational behaviour. So said Paul O’Neill, former CEO and Chairman of Alcoa (1987-99). It’s a quote that neatly tied together many of the threads on e-permits insights over the past year – from how to improve the health and safety culture of your organisation to the somewhat offbeat “What’s the ROI of Your Mother?” … Read More
