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KEVIN McCLOUD’S COMPANY – HAB
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
PROPERTY AND DEVELOPMENT JANUARY10
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PROPERTYAND DEVELOPMENT THE MAGAZINE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
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RoSPA Sector Award for Facilities Management
SAFETY BREEDS QUALITY
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PAD talked to Babcock Health and Safety Development Manager, Alan Meikle, about the company’s success in this year’s RoSPAs where it won the Sector Award in the Facilities Management category.
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abcock International Group PLC is a FTSE 250 company and one of the UK’s leading engineering support services organisations with recorded rev-
enue of £1.9bn in 2009. Babcock delivers critical asset support to many sectors, including transport, energy, defence, telecommunications and education. Services are underpinned by three core capabilities: • Managing Assets and Infrastructure • Delivering Projects and Programmes • Integrating Engineering Expertise Babcock’s 17,000 skilled staff design, build, manage, operate and maintain assets that are vital to the delivery of many key public services, both in the UK and overseas. A key element of this service is safety provision as Health and Safety Development Manager Alan Meikle explains: “My role is to provide support to the business by providing the safety strategy linked to the company objectives and targets.” The majority of Babcock’s work is provided by Ministry of Defence (MoD) contracts including the management of its sizeable Regional Prime Contracts in the South West and the East of the country where the company is responsible for various FM services.
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BABCOCK DELIVERS CRITICAL ASSET SUPPORT TO MANY SECTORS SAFE AND UNSAFE ACTS (SUSA)
The Regional Prime Contracts have many hazards
The SUSA workshop can assist in the development of the competence required to
which need to be managed such as working at height,
have structured conversations with an individual or group in their workplace, and
asbestos, legionella, pressure systems etc. These haz-
coach them to improve their personal safety. The process encourages people to dis-
ards brought about the task of providing further improve-
cuss the way in which they are doing their job with the aim of improving behaviour
ments and assurance to health, safety and environmen-
in order to prevent occupational illness, injury and other specified losses. The SUSA
tal management systems by streamlining and co-ordinat-
process is used to encourage those involved in the conversation to adopt the Key
ing processes using subject matter experts within the
Safe Behaviours (KSBs) that will minimise the risk of them being injured.
business.
The SUSA Workshop is a one-day workshop where nominated SUSA Practitioners
“A very open and honest gap analysis had to take
are trained to carry out effective SUSA conversations. The SUSA training involves a
place to find where improvements could be made,” says
process where contemporary theories of selling and persuasion are applied to influ-
Alan. “This ultimately led to the Infrastructure Division
ence safety in the workplace. This is taught by using techniques such as video role-
being certified to the BS OHSAS 18001 standard.
play, group exercises and a work- based practice session.
These changes to systems and processes did create a
The data collected during the SUSA conversation process is recorded by entering
marked improvement in safety performance. But it was
the information directly onto the company’s Enable system. This allows for the proac-
felt that there was room for further improvement hence
tive measurement of safety performance and the taking of corrective actions before
the introduction of a behavioural safety campaign which
injuries occur. The easy-to-use software allows the outcomes from conversations to be
has been successful in bettering safety performance even
analysed and results used to generate a variety of reports and guide improvement
more and reducing accident rates.
actions.
“Our behavioural safety programme, SUSA, provides a structured process for our staff to observe the way in
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“...THE COMMITMENT FROM BOARD LEVEL HAS EMPOWERED THE WORKFORCE TO WORK IN A SAFER WAY.” HEALTH AND SAFETY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER ALAN MEIKLE
which people carry out their work,” says Alan.
ning the prestigious RoSPA Sector Award for Facilities
“Following an observation of a work activity, a conver-
Management.
sation will take place between the two parties which
“I think our strength has been our ability to communi-
should result in either the work being completed in a
cate and to get out and see the people within our behav-
safer way or the workforce being thanked for undertak-
ioural programmes,” says Alan. “Also, the commitment
ing the task in the safest possible way. These observa-
from board level has empowered the workforce to work
tions are fed back into our system which provides an
in a safer way.”
analysis of the results. Ultimately this allows us to identify
While it’s undoubtedly important to be recognised by
trends where tasks are being carried out unsafely and
RoSPA for reducing accidents, Alan also understands
amend these practices – we’re always striving for zero
that good health and safety practice has much wider
accidents.”
implications for the business as a whole. “Safety breeds quality,” he says. “They go hand in hand – if a job is done safely, it will be done properly.”
ROSPA AWARD While it may not have achieved zero accidents just yet, the Babcock Health and Safety team has recently
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