Thales UK Receives Gold Award at the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2015

Rebecca Betteridge, UK Head of Health Safety & Environment (HSE), and her team have received a gold award in occupational health and safety at the recent RoSPA awards.

Rebecca commented upon receiving the award:

“The HSE function with the support of Senior Business Leadership has changed direction over the last 12 months in order to empower our employees to demonstrate core safety behaviours. Thales UK is determined to ensure that every employee knows safety is the starting point of everything we do. We will empower our people with the training and tools to take responsibility for the safety of themselves, others and our products, projects and services”.

“Following the change in direction in Thales UK HSE Behaviour and Culture, the time was right to use ROSPA as a bench mark for measuring its success. Receiving Gold Award on our first submission at the RoSPA Awards is truly an honour and reflects the hard work and dedication of our HSE function across Thales UK. The Business and its people now have an opportunity to maintain its management of risk and further improve its reduction of incidents, injuries and ill health, improving its established safety culture”.

“We endeavour to improve further by ensuring a high performing safety culture is embedded in all business operations and activities both now and in the future. Thales UK is determined to ensure that every employee knows safety is the starting point of everything we do”.
“We strive for Thales UK to be externally recognised as a preferred employer and leader in Employee Safety, Health and Wellbeing, which will enable us to secure and safely deliver our future business requirements”.

(From left to right: Simon Carrier SIX & DMS HSE Lead, Belinda Lovell, Midlands Regional Specialist, Rebecca Betteridge, UK Head of HSE, Emma Power, UK HSE Projects Manager, James Taylor, UK HSE Compliance & Improvement Manager)

As the UK’s family safety charity, RoSPA’s mission to save lives and reduce injuries covers all ages and stages of life. In support of this mission, the RoSPA Awards, which date back 59 years, recognise commitment to continuous improvement in accident and ill health prevention at work. Through the scheme, which is open to businesses and organisations of all types and sizes from across the UK and overseas, judges consider entrants’ overarching occupational health and safety management systems, including practices such as leadership and workforce involvement.

See here for more information about RoSPA (The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) and their mission to save lives and reduce injuries.