Scaffold firm NSG UK says it has met its safety target of one million man hours with no lost-time accidents (LTA).
The Deeside-based company, which has 450 employees, reached the milestone after introducing a behavioural safety scheme. The ‘Watch what you’re doing’ initiative encouraged all of the firm’s workers on the ground to take responsibility for their colleagues and their own safety.
Explaining how the schme works, NSG managing director, Mike Carr, said: “Scaffolding operatives are trained to monitor the safe and unsafe actions of their colleagues. They then make recommendations for improvements. Workers are engaged in frequent safety updates and we meet our on-site health and safety supervisors on a regular basis to discuss any issues they have. They are the ones who are onsite, where the vast majority of accidents can happen, so we had to get them involved from the start and let them manage the scheme in essence.
“Ultimately, we are striving to eliminate all accidents and injuries, and the procedures we have in place are testament to this.”
I’d be interested to hear more about this scheme, in the serach to find something that will suit my current company.