2019 was a spectacular yr 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, in addition 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 over the past three years…
What advantages does profitable a RoSPA Award have on 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 workers. Benchmarking ourselves in opposition to the Awards yearly is a good way of reflecting on our efficiency over the earlier yr and specializing in all of the issues we have accomplished effectively. Recognition as a Gold Award winner additionally sends out a powerful sign that we’re a excessive performing group that’s massively enthusiastic about security and actually cares for the wellbeing of our staff. Attaining Gold did not occur in a single day. We put plenty of work into our submissions over plenty of years and the suggestions from RoSPA was actually useful on how we might tweak and enhance year-on-year.
Which modern approaches, threat evaluation practices and/or management measures to handle well being and security are you significantly pleased with?
Over the previous variety of years, we have been significantly pleased with our concentrate on the bodily and psychological well being of our workers, which is so necessary within the trendy high-pressure work setting. the 
one of the best factor about it’s that we have had plenty of enjoyable doing it. You could 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, employees bowling nights, consciousness workshops and employees well being screening days. These have been nice for morale and supply a perfect 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 targeted in direction of steady enchancment, altering attitudes and enhancing our tradition. While concentrate on 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 on). We have now discovered that competing within the RoSPA Awards has been actually good for nurturing this balanced strategy through the years. 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 greatest follow.
How have the RoSPA Awards impressed you/your group to repeatedly enhance well being and security administration?
After we first entered a few years again, we had been actually pleased to win a Silver Award. After a few years, we bought extra bold and actually needed to win Gold, which we achieved with some invaluable suggestions and help 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 beneficial 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 Development Sector Award subsequent yr. That is 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 take pleasure in most in regards to the RoSPA Awards?
The anticipation of ready for the Award end result to come back by way of is actually exhilarating, significantly while 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 can be a crew effort. I get an important buzz out of that yearly. The Awards ceremony itself can also be a incredible event with firms from all around the world current to gather their trophies and certificates. It is clear when a consultant goes as much as gather their award that the acknowledgment means rather a lot to them. I do know meaning rather a lot to us.
May your group go for Gold in 2020? Registrations are presently open for the 2020 RoSPA Well being & Security Awards. Merely go to the web site to search out out extra. Need to hear extra in regards to the RoSPA Awards? Atone for all our posts within the ‘Meet the Winner’ sequence and learn the way getting into the awards has benefitted different organisations.