2019 was a spectacular 12 months for Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd. on the 
RoSPA Well being & Security Awards. In addition to being Extremely Recommended within the Well being & Security Staff of the Yr, additionally they achieved a RoSPA Gold Achievement Award.
Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd. first entered the RoSPA Awards again in 2017, profitable 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 Security Supervisor at Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd. to search out out extra about their awards journey during the last three years…
What advantages does profitable a RoSPA Award have in your group?
Being acknowledged as a winner on the RoSPA Awards is massively helpful for our firm’s
popularity and profile, each with shoppers, the broader public and our personal staff. 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 have performed properly. Recognition as a Gold Award winner additionally sends out a robust sign that we’re a excessive performing group that’s massively keen about security and actually cares for the wellbeing of our employees. Attaining Gold did not occur in a single day. We put plenty of work into our submissions over a variety of years and the suggestions from RoSPA was actually useful on how we may tweak and enhance year-on-year.
Which revolutionary approaches, danger evaluation practices and/or management measures to handle well being and security are you notably happy with?
Over the previous variety of years, we have been notably happy with our deal with the bodily and psychological well being of our staff, which is so necessary within the trendy high-pressure work setting. the 
the most effective factor about it’s that we have had plenty of enjoyable doing it. You may be actually artistic in developing with methods to advertise higher well being for employees. For instance, we have held 5-side soccer matches, stroll at work schemes, wholesome lunch days, workers bowling nights, consciousness workshops and workers well being screening days. These have been nice for morale and supply an excellent alternative for employees to get to know each other higher.
Can you share any outcomes out of your group’s strategy to well being and security administration?
Our strategy to well being and security administration is very centered in direction of steady enchancment, altering attitudes and enhancing our tradition. While deal with lagging 
indicators (accidents, incidents) are necessary, we attempt to maintain a balanced strategy by placing equal emphasis on main indicators (coaching, inspections, good practices, awards and so forth). We now have discovered that competing within the RoSPA Awards has been actually good for nurturing this balanced strategy over time. The questions are all the time up to date to mirror the ever-changing nature of well being and security, so it retains us aligned with finest observe.
How have the RoSPA Awards impressed you/your group to constantly enhance well being and security administration?
After we first entered a few years again, we had been actually blissful to win a Silver Award. After a few years, we received extra formidable and actually wished 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 really useful award within the Well being & Security Staff of the Yr class. We have already registered for the 2020 Awards and have determined to push ourselves to win a Building Sector Award subsequent 12 months. That is the wonderful thing about the RoSPA Awards, there’s one thing for everybody and the optimistic reinforcement of success actually drives you to constantly enhance year-on-year.
What do you take pleasure in most concerning the RoSPA Awards?
The anticipation of ready for the Award end result to come back by is de facto exhilarating, notably if you’ve put plenty of effort into the submission. It is also plenty of enjoyable sharing the 
the end result for employees and Administrators because the submission is known as a staff effort. I get an excellent buzz out of that yearly. The Awards ceremony itself can be a improbable event with corporations from everywhere in the world current to gather their trophies and certificates. It is clear when a consultant goes as much as acquire their award that the acknowledgment means so much to them. I do know meaning so much to us.
May your group go for Gold in 2020? Registrations are at present open for the 2020 RoSPA Well being & Security Awards. Merely go to the web site to search out out extra. Need to hear extra concerning the RoSPA Awards? Atone for all our posts within the ‘Meet the Winner’ sequence and learn how getting into the awards has benefitted different organisations.