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At AWE, we embrace safety as a value. The health and safety of our employees, the community and the environment is at the heart of everything we do at AWE.
The focus of our internal campaign ‘Target Zero’ remains one of developing and continually improving the health and safety culture within AWE, and working towards incident and injury free (IIF) – and this is facilitated through the Target Zero Programme.
The first step on the AWE journey to achieve this was to develop and improve the caring culture within AWE. During the last two years, IIF was successfully rolled out to all AWE people and is now part of our induction training for all new staff and contractors. This programme changed people’s belief that accidents did not happen to the other person – that accidents could and would happen to them.
We have established comprehensive Occupational Health arrangements which enable us to recognise, evaluate and control health risks which may affect our workforce. We are also committed to encouraging our workforce to improve their overall health and wellbeing by providing a range of activities and promotional events designed to support them to make lifestyle changes to improve their, and their families’, ‘quality of life’.
We want our people to go home in the same state as they came to work – incident and injury free – and ultimately equipped and willing to take their safe working practices home with them. This fundamental change in ethos has affected the lives of many AWE people and their families. Our success was achieved by making it personal and encouraging individuals to realise the impact that an injury or poor health can have on family, colleagues and friends. Our people know that they have the ‘right to intervene’ and with everyone’s commitment, this is now integral to AWE.
Our continued commitment to health and safety has also been recognised by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA); we have been awarded major awards for nine successive years for consistently good performance in Occupational Health and Safety; the highest accolade was in 2002 when we were awarded the RoSPA’s top award: the Sir George Earle Trophy.
Continued recognition from such a respected independent body as RoSPA underlines the progress we have made in achieving and maintaining very high standards in health and safety excellence across our sites and RoSPA have recently commended our commitment to protecting the health and wellbeing of our workforce. These awards represent recognition of our desire to achieve our goal of world-class standards in health and safety management.
The first step on the AWE journey to achieve this was to develop and improve the caring culture within AWE. During the last two years, IIF was successfully rolled out to all AWE people and is now part of our induction training for all new staff and contractors. This programme changed people’s belief that accidents did not happen to the other person – that accidents could and would happen to them.
We have established comprehensive Occupational Health arrangements which enable us to recognise, evaluate and control health risks which may affect our workforce. We are also committed to encouraging our workforce to improve their overall health and wellbeing by providing a range of activities and promotional events designed to support them to make lifestyle changes to improve their, and their families’, ‘quality of life’.
We want our people to go home in the same state as they came to work – incident and injury free – and ultimately equipped and willing to take their safe working practices home with them. This fundamental change in ethos has affected the lives of many AWE people and their families. Our success was achieved by making it personal and encouraging individuals to realise the impact that an injury or poor health can have on family, colleagues and friends. Our people know that they have the ‘right to intervene’ and with everyone’s commitment, this is now integral to AWE.
Our continued commitment to health and safety has also been recognised by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA); we have been awarded major awards for nine successive years for consistently good performance in Occupational Health and Safety; the highest accolade was in 2002 when we were awarded the RoSPA’s top award: the Sir George Earle Trophy.
Continued recognition from such a respected independent body as RoSPA underlines the progress we have made in achieving and maintaining very high standards in health and safety excellence across our sites and RoSPA have recently commended our commitment to protecting the health and wellbeing of our workforce. These awards represent recognition of our desire to achieve our goal of world-class standards in health and safety management.