Pictured above: Paul Moore ,centre, accepts his
winner's certificate from Barry Cooper ,chief executive of Stanton
Bonna, left, and Thierry Coudurier, chief operating officer of
parent company Consolis
A manufacturer's health and safety campaign produced winners all
round - a reduction in accidents to workers, employees who won
prizes and a local hospice which gained a cheque donation.
All benefited from the second 'near miss and hazard alert'
scheme run by pre-cast concrete drainage products manufacturer
Stanton Bonna, based at Stanton-by-Dale, near Ilkeston,
Derbyshire.
Under the scheme, the 140 employees are encouraged to write on
cards details of any near misses - incidents that had the potential
to result in injury although had not done so - or hazard alerts -
unsafe equipment, substances, or procedures - so that management
can take appropriate action.
In the last year workers at the premises in Littlewell Lane have
filled in 398 alert cards. Over the same period the number of
accidents involving employees having time off work dropped from six
to one.
The company matched the efforts by giving £1 to charity
for each card submitted and a cheque for £398 was presented
to Treetops Hospice at Risley.
Stanton Bonna employees who fill in a card are entered for a
monthly draw to win £25 of shopping vouchers, but in
celebrating the success of the health and safety scheme management
gave away several prizes in an annual prize draw.
Thierry Coudurier, new chief operating officer of Brussels-based
parent company Consolis, visiting Stanton Bonna for the first time,
said the alert scheme initiative was important "because safety is
our number one priority in our business" and because of the
donation to help a local charity.
He made the draw from all the cards entered during the previous
year, and presented the prizes to winners. Top prize of a weekend
away for two went to boiler/storekeeper Paul Moore, of Kenilworth
Drive, Kirk Hallam, who said he was surprised but happy to have
won.
Peter Chaffe of Underwood picked up two prizes - an LCD
television with dvd, and £40 shopping voucher, and Frank
Healey of Ilkeston won a satellite navigation system.
Stanton Bonna has also just received a gold award for health and
safety initiatives from the British Precast Concrete Federation,
with an additional red seal for accident reduction.