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HEALTH & SAFETY: MOUNT ANVIL

and prosper as a result.

“We built a unified
foundation for a
better approach to
Health and Safety,
and from there
things came
together very
quickly”

The company was named Developer of
the Year for the third year running at the
prestigious Property Week RESI Awards
2015. Celebrating excellence within the residential property sector, the award recognises every aspect of the business, all the way
from its outstanding design and first-class
locations through to the quality of build,
the brand and the reputation of the company in the sector as a whole. “We are incredibly proud. This award is a reflection of the
entire Mount Anvil team’s dedication to

Mount Anvil. Though this rating was

yet responsible manner. This display of

creating exceptional homes which boost

indeed the highest ever issued in the history

corporate responsibility also highlights

London’s reputation as a world-class city,”

of the BSC's rating system, this year the

ways in which other organisations could,

explained Killian Hurley, Chief Executive

company successfully maintained its five

or should operate.

of Mount Anvil.

star rating and astonishingly managed to

Commenting on the importance of

For the second year running, Mount

increase its audit score all the way up to

health and safety to Mount Anvil, Simon

Anvil has, in fact also been named the UK's

99.93%, setting another record for the BSC.

Walker, Health & Safety Director for the

number one company for health and safety

Of course, this success not only presents

company explained: “Mount Anvil has

across all sectors. Even though, in 2014 the

Mount Anvil as a role model for health and

always had a strong focus on Health and

British Safety Council already recognised

safety across the sector, but also showcases

Safety, but in recent years we’ve really

Mount Anvil as the UK's number one com-

the company's sheer dedication to keeping

stepped it up a level.

pany, awarding it a five star rating an audit

its employees and the general public safe,

“In a lot of companies, people in differ-

score of 99.78%, this wasn't enough for

whilst operating in a commercially viable,

ent job roles work in isolation from each
other. There’s no sharing of practices, no
communicating of lessons, no uniformity.
Step one was to take everything back to a
common baseline - a single template that
applied to directors, office staff, on-site
teams - the whole company. We built a unified foundation for a better approach to
Health and Safety, and from there things
came together very quickly.
“The big thing was to make people
realise that Health and Safety isn’t a set of
hoops to be jumped through – it’s something that is hugely important and personally relevant to everyone. These standards
and processes exist to ensure that people
are safe and well at work. It’s that simple.
You let people see that ‘Why’, and all of a
sudden the ‘Hows’ make a lot more sense
to them. Everyone has a part to play, and
everyone feels the benefit – you just need
everyone on board.”
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