03.06.2010

RoSPA Gold for Lavendon

The UK arm of internaitonal powered access rental group Lavendon, has been awarded the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Gold Award for Occupational Health and Safety.

In order to qualify for the award companies have to demonstrate that they have reduced the number of accidents and cases of ill health at work and have robust health and safety management systems in place.

Lavendon’s success was based on the ‘Safety Starts with You’ campaign across the company’s 43 UK depots. The TechX programme, designed to set consistently high standards of practice in key operational areas (including equipment maintenance, environmental management, procurement, housekeeping and health and safety).
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RoSPA trustee, Ian Walker (L) presents the RoSPA Gold award to Chris Wraith Lavendon UK QHSE manager

David Rawlins, RoSPA’s Awards Manager, said: “Lavendon has shown a commitment to protecting the health and well-being of its employees and others. Organisations which do this deserve to have such dedication recognised and that’s where the RoSPA Awards come in.”

“As well as there being clear ethical reasons and legal requirements for good health and safety management, there is also a strong business case. RoSPA is delighted to publicly honour organisations which have demonstrated their work to improve performance in this sphere.”

Lavendon’s UK chief executive Andy Wright added: “Many of our clients set the same high standards of excellence in health and safety, so it is very important that we have been able to show, through this RoSPA Gold Award, that we are continuously striving to ensure their workplaces are as safe as possible.”