Health & Safety
Innovation in safety
helps Lanes Group win
sixth RoSPA Gold
Lanes Group has won a RoSPA Gold Award for
occupational health and safety for the sixth year in a row.
he achievement means
Lanes Group, the leading
drainage and maintenance
specialist, retains its RoSPA
Gold Medal.
T
Initiatives put before the judges
included a new industry-leading
digital risk assessment tool that has
achieved 100 per cent field operative
compliance, and allows real time
management review of work site
health and safety.
The company will receive the Gold
Medal from the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) in a
ceremony at the Hilton Birmingham
Metropole Hotel at the National
Exhibition Centre on 14 July 2015.
Only organisations that continuously
set the highest occupational health
and safety standards, year after
year, qualify for a Gold Medal in the
prestigious annual RoSPA Awards.
To achieve the success, Lanes Group
had to supply detailed explanations
and evidence of its occupational health
and safety strategy, policy, procedures
and performance across all elements of
its business.
The award is the second recent health
and safety success for Lanes, with the
announcement that the Lanes Utilities
Division has been named a finalist in
the Construction News Awards 2015
for Health and Safety Initiative.
Initiatives submitted in evidence for
the RoSPA Awards was the decision to
invest over £25,000 in implementing
a SHE software system to integrate
health and safety management across
Lanes’ main operational depots.
Lanes Utilities Division could point
to the introduction of a digital point
of works risk assessment (PoWRA)
tool for its Thames Water wastewater
networks maintenance contract, which
contributed to an accident frequency
rate of zero during 2014.
The digital PoWRA allows operational
managers to monitor risk assessment
in real time, and support field
engineers on key decisions. It also has
a Shout About Safety function that
invites engineers to suggest safety
improvements at each job.
Lanes Group:
www.lanesfordrains.co.uk
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