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19 April 2005
The Group has won a prestigious RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) ‘Gold’ Award for good occupational health and safety practice in the last five years.
Since 1956 RoSPA has organised a prestigious national award scheme to recognise excellence in health and safety performance by private and public sector organisations.
The fundamental purposes of the awards scheme are threefold:
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to help motivate health and safety performance improvement in organisations by providing them with a rising scale of targets to aim at (the ‘bronze', 'silver' and 'gold’ awards which are the core of the scheme).
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to provide a means of recognising and celebrating health and safety achievement.
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to provide a series of exemplars of good practice, to ensure that there is an ever growing number of positive role models for other organisations to follow.
The RoSPA scheme is not simply an accident rate scheme but is based on adjudication of a broad portfolio of evidence about the level of development and performance of an entrant’s health and safety management system. It is about inputs as well as outputs; health and safety culture as well as the number of days lost. RoSPA is now building on this approach by developing further guidance on best practice in setting corporate health and safety improvement targets.
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Information correct as at 19/04/2005