Members of LLWR workforce collect prestigious health and safety accolade
LLW Repository Ltd (LLWR) honoured with fourth President's Award by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
Rob Yetts, Head of Site, left, Alison Fotheringham, Consignment, Container and Transport Fleet Manager, and Russell Beckwith, Low Level Waste Operations Manager, receive LLWR's fourth President's Award from RoSPA.
Members of the LLWR workforce were on hand to collect the organisation鈥檚 fourth President鈥檚 Award for its exceptional performance in 2017, in a RoSPA ceremony in Glasgow.
Accolades are based on an organisation鈥檚 individual occupational health and safety performance and the President鈥檚 Award was conferred in recognition of LLWR receiving a 13th consecutive Gold Award.
Elaine Burrage, LLWR鈥檚 Health & Safety (H&S) Manager, said: 鈥淚n order to achieve a Gold Award we have to declare our safety statistics to RoSPA, but that is only part of the judging criteria.
鈥淩oSPA also want to understand and assess our H&S management system, how we are continuously improving the health and safety of all those involved in our activities, ensuring that we provide adequate training to the correct standards, ensuring that our contractors and others affected by our work are kept safe at all times and how we monitor our performance and the health of our workforce.
鈥淭hese are only a few of the criteria they assess us on.鈥�
Russell Beckwith, Low Level Waste Operations Manager, one of those chosen to attend the ceremony, said: 鈥淏eing asked to represent LLWR and accepting the President鈥檚 Award for 13 years of outstanding performance was a proud moment.
鈥淔or us to be associated with companies that seek to achieve excellence in health and safety performance and keep that standard going for this considerable length of time just goes to prove the high standards we set ourselves, not just ensuring that we all go home safely to our families, but also that what we are doing is being recognised on the national stage.鈥�