Glass Charter Awards

1.        Glass Charter Globe – Overall Safety Performance:  Beatson Clark plc – their no-blame culture and thorough analysis and scrutiny of every incident ensure effective control of health and safety performance. They also proactively ensure all supervisors and line managers on site receive NEBOSH General Certificate training.

2.        Best Safety Performance – up to 50 employees: The Standard Patent Glazing Company Ltd (Keith Gibson) – The company has lowered its incident rate on a yearly basis and all employees receive health and safety awareness training every two years.

3.        Best Safety Performance – up to 250 employees: NGF Europe, St Helens – The company has introduced a number of initiatives as well as a site improvement plan aimed at measuring safety through Key Performance Indicators, Incidents of High-Potential, Quarterly Improvement Actions and Behavioural Safety.

4.        Best Safety Performance – over 250 employees: Solaglas Windowcare which is committed to making health and safety everyone’s responsibility by providing commitment from the top-down, training, objectives, involvement by all and sharing of best practice.

5.        Best Improvement in Safety: Peter Margieson, Windowstyle UK Ltd – for making such excellent progress in the field of worker involvement and health and safety training, including the establishment of an on-site training facility.

6.        Best Safety Initiative: Sharon Pearce, Transport Supervision, Solaglas Windowcare – Sharon was instrumental in the implementation of a thorough Transport Management System with robust monitoring of speed, average costs per mile, accidents, cost and frequency of maintenance etc.

7.        Best Training Initiative: Gemma Folan, Quinn Glass Group Ltd, Elton – for the introduction of a comprehensive training programme covering all aspects of on-site  operations, including glass manufacturing NVQ Level 2, Production Health & Safety training, Training for Employee Representatives and Safety Committee members and train-the-trainer Manual Handling Training.

8.        Best Health Initiative: Melanie Bennett RGN BSc (Hons), Allied Glass Containers – Melanie, Occupational Health Nurse, has developed a full programme for health surveillance for employees, including a basic level of assessment for existing employees and pre-employment checks for new employees. This included spirometry and audiometry testing.

9.        Nominated Director for Health & Safety: Alan Jones, Managing Director, Beatson Clark plc – for demonstrating exceptional commitment to Health & Safety and is at the forefront of all initiatives taking a personal interest to ensure that annual health and safety strategy achieves the desired outcome. The results speak for themselves with a year-on-year downward trend for all incidents, including RIDDORS since 2001.

10.     Health & Safety Professional of the Year: Bruce Phillips CIMOSH DipRSA, Health & Safety Manager, Allied Glass Containers Ltd – the impact of his efforts are seen by all – including the compan’s insurers who see him as the experienced and competent safety professional he is – giving employees confidence in all company activities. He has co-led two furnace rebuilds and the installation of two abatement plants therough the new CDM regulations.

11.     Safety Representative of the Year: Philip Langham, Solarglas Windowcare – is a very popular member of staff, instrumental in helping the company win over staff in health and safety matters, using humour to enthuse others and get the message of safety across to all staff.

12.     Employee Contribution to Health & Safety: Tony Humphries, Health and Safety Coordinator, Pilkington NSG Group Flat Glass Business, Gateshead – along with his full time role in the glass processing department and often in his own time, Tony has consistently contributed to raising the standards on site including toolbox talks, training and management of safety programmes.

13.     Supplier Innovation Award: Kevin Rossiter, Managing Director, Rossiter & Co Ltd – Kevin and his team have delivered real change in the industry by delivering bespoke safety training videos and DVDs to organisations throughout the glass industry.

14.     Overall Supplier to the Glass Industry Award: Martin Woodall, Managing Director, Lattitude Safety Ltd – for his innovative work on behavioural safety and training packages. Martin’s passion and belief in behavioural safety change is as strong today as it was when he entered this field 10 years ago.