FACILITIES & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT: PLATINUM FACILITIES & MAINTENANCE SERVICES LTD
as meeting company goals. I have gained various health, safety
and environmental management qualifications, all of which have
given me a strong platform to understand the dynamics of this
industry. Every individual within our business is considered a
valued customer to my team who strive to provide a professional
service of advice, support and guidance, second to none. Working
closely with the Managing Director ensures the SHEQ business
strategy comprehensively reflects the wider company direction and
objectives.
“The introduction of my three year ‘H&S Business Plan’ has been
pivotal in ensuring the achievement of our goals as a company. Not
only does this support the overall growth of the business but it has
allowed our management team to focus their efforts and become
proactive as opposed to reactive and to better understand our
common priorities. A key objective and driver within the plan has
been the continued development of our safety culture, creating a
structured, positive pathway for all levels of employees to not only
be involved but actively contribute to its success and experience the
benefits first hand. Year 1 of the plan provided us with the means to
improve our safety compliance by 20 per cent. As the plan continues
to embed itself into our organisation, thus creating further success,
it allows my department to accurately measure and analyse our
safety performance in greater detail and fine tune the areas that
need additional support in keeping our standards and achievements
constant and compliant.”
Award winning advice
PFMS recently won the prestigious British Safety Council
International Safety Award 2015 in the ‘Distinction’ category and
a RoSPA ‘Gold’ Award for their achievements in health and safety
management. When asked to explain how this was achieved and
what was involved during the process of the awards submissions,
Stuart said:
“For those organisations that have either a well-documented,
methodically maintained file system or a comprehensive IMS
(Integrated Management System), this certainly helps to make
life easy when collating information for award applications and
submissions. It’s almost as simple as cherry picking from a healthy
tree. A key discipline for my department is attention to detail and
easy access and retrieval of the relevant data required. I believe
the combination of this and having a committed, well-trained
team supported by other departmental staff made a difference in
presenting a professional submission.
“Winning any award gives great confidence and a sense of
achievement. This was our first award submission with the British
Safety Council and RoSPA but I recognise this is just one milestone
on a path of many. We must not become complacent, start thinking
we’ve achieved our end goal and put our feet up; this is only the
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