Stelrad’s headquarters in Mexborough, South Yorkshire has currently exceeded 930 days, more than two and a half years, without a ‘lost time accident’ on the site. The company was now looking towards the next target which is 1,000 days without a lost time accident on the site.
It exceeds the previous record at the site set back in 2014, according to a statement.
Simon Murgatroyd, compliance and facilities manager at Stelrad, said: “This new record is mightily impressive. Our team here has been heavily motivated to build on their already impressive health and safety record and the schemes we run day in day out here, keeps health and safety awareness at the forefront of everyone’s minds in every area of the business.
“Many of the people working here have been with the company for more than 25 years and getting them to think about health and safety in a very different way was difficult. We had to introduce a new approach to the way things happened here. The major driving force was the attitude of the people who do the work including the management team.
“You can’t expect the shop floor to change their attitudes if they don’t see management embracing changes and the success we’ve had has come about because we’ve been able to get management, right at the top of the business, and the shop floor teams to work together to drive health and safety at every level.”
An incentive scheme to encourage people throughout the business to report potential hazards around the factory and the site had been introduced with monthly awards to the top three ‘Hazardous condition spots’ decided on by the safety reps and senior management team, a statement added.