Friday, November 21, 2008

Near Miss Campaign

Bethell is currently running a Near Miss Campaign to encourage all the team to be vigilant and seek out potential hazards to prevent accidents.  As an additional incentive, all Near Misses reported are entered into a monthly draw to win £100 of high street vouchers.

Said Ian Madden, group health & safety director:  “Any suggestions from employees which contribute to further improve health and safety on site or in the office are always taken on board.  We are instilling a health and safety-conscious culture into all of our day-to-day activities and asking employees to remember that if we don’t know about it, we can’t do anything about it.”

A NEAR MISS is any incident that does not cause harm but had the potential to

A HAZARD is something with the potential to cause injury, damage or loss (eg defective equipment or flooring, inadequate or absent safety controls, deviation from safe working practice, poorly maintained plant and equipment …..)

Hazards have now been added to Bethell’s reporting procedure, to ensure that this information is properly recorded and can directly contribute to preventing future accidents.

All Near Miss or Hazard information submitted is investigated by the safety management team and the findings are always fed back to the employee who initially raised the issue, along, occasionally with a £100 worth of vouchers to spend in the high street of his/her choice!