Winvic Construction Ltd, is celebrating after landing an internationally-recognised award for demonstrating high health and safety standards for eleven consecutive years running.
Winvic has received a RoSPA President’s Award for achieving eleven Golds consecutively for working hard to ensure its team get home safely to their families at the end of every working day.
Organisations receiving a RoSPA Award are recognised as being world-leaders in health and safety practice. Every year, nearly 2,000 entrants vie to achieve the highest possible accolade in what is the UK’s longest-running H&S industry awards.
Evidently, Winvic’s health and safety record has been outstanding for a long period of time, strengthened even further through the launch of its ‘Doing It Right’ initiative in 2020 – a cultural change programme to further improve behavioural safety – as part of its drive for ongoing excellence and even more successful outcomes. Since, Winvic has achieved a reduction in safety incidents (AFR) by 71 per cent in the first two years and minor injuries by 20 per cent in the last year.
Ian Goodhead, Winvic’s HSEQ Director, said: “We continue to work hard with our workforce, consultants and subcontractors to ensure everyone develops and contributes to our safety-first culture. Through achieving the RoSPA award for eleven consecutive years this demonstrates our commitment to our excellent health and safety standards. The team should be extremely proud of themselves and each other for keeping safety at the forefront of their mind, in everything they do. The RoSPA President’s Health and Safety Award is a significant achievement and uplifting recognition of our efforts, but we are by no means satisfied with just eleven consecutive years of top honours. Together, through our ‘Doing It Right’ initiative we pledge to support each other, hold ourselves and colleagues accountable, to ensure we continue building on the solid platform of our past, to ensure a safe and successful future, always strengthening our health and safety technical processes, training and education and ethos of ‘one team’ working.”
Julia Small, RoSPA’s achievements director, said: “The RoSPA Awards scheme is the longest-running of its kind in the UK, but it receives entries from organisations across the globe, making it one of the most sought-after achievement awards for health and safety worldwide. RoSPA is very proud of the achievements of its entrants, and with this award we recognise the best of the best, those organisations that have gone the extra mile, raising the bar for the delivery of safety in the workplace. Employees, wherever they may be, should be able to go to work safe in the knowledge that they will return home unharmed and healthy at the end of every day. Our RoSPA Award winners are central to achieving this goal. By entering they are driving up standards and setting new safety benchmarks for organisations across the world..”
Furthermore, one of Winvic’s team members – Jehan Gomes-Luis who is an Assistant Site Manager currently working on IM Properties’ Mercia Park project – has been awarded the accolade of a being a RoSPA Covid Workplace Champion. Jehan started out with Winvic as a Covid Marshall at Hinckley Park in November 2020 and when this temporary role came to an end, she was successful in her application for a permanent role within site management; Jehan’s career journey can be read about in a blog post.
A three-week groundworks training course, which she applied for at a local jobs fair, sparked a keen interest in Health and Safety and her passion was noticed by Winvic’s Director of HSEQ, Ian Goodhead. Ian explains: “Jehan really stood out on the course that she attended at Hinckley Park, where she learned about groundworks and various aspects of Health and Safety, as well as employability skills. Unfortunately, she didn’t manage to gain employment at that time, but over a year later when we had a vacancy for a Covid Marshall, I pulled out her CV and gave her call to see if she was interested in applying.
“The feedback on her can-do attitude and approach to keeping the team safe while in that job was outstanding, and we were all delighted when Jehan wanted to progress a career in construction, said she wanted to remain at Winvic and then was successful in getting the Assistant Site Manager job. Working safely on site is each individual’s responsibility and Jehan has continued to champion Winvic’s Doing It Right approach at Mercia Park, actively promoting our observations app, which is used to report any positive or unsafe safety behaviours witnessed.”
After seeing Jehan in action on site and in meetings, plus hearing praise from various Winvic team members, Ian was in no doubt that she should be recognised for her outlook and actions, and he nominated her for a RoSPA Covid Workplace Champion Award.
Jehan was successful and was delighted to hear the news: “I was extremely surprised to receive an email from RoSPA on a Friday afternoon with a big congratulations message, because I feel like I’ve just been doing my job all this time! It’s humbling to know that Ian and my other colleagues think I deserve special recognition, but really keeping a site team safe is a team effort. Everyone looks out for each other, so we all deserve a pat on the back, especially with the additional challenges that Covid brought. It’s an honour to be a RoSPA Covid Workplace Champion and it’s only served to motivate me even more.”
For more information about the RoSPA Awards visit www.rospa.com/awards
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