South Staffordshire Plc held its third health and safety conference last week at Six Ways Stadium in Worcestershire.
The conference brought together leaders from across the Group to launch a new ‘Staying Safe Together’ health, safety and wellbeing strategy. The event, which took place on 3 July, was led by Group Head of Health and Safety, Richard Brookes, who was joined by Group CEO, Charley Maher, Group Chief Financial Officer Rob O’Malley, and guest speaker, Al Peasland, Head of Technical Innovation Partnerships at Williams Racing.
As part of the day, several colleagues were presented with awards in a ceremony that celebrated success and outstanding contributions to health and safety in the workplace.
Hydrosave was thrilled to be presented with the award for ‘Best Innovation’, in recognition of their work creating innovative and engaging risk awareness content for the business, including a suite of critical risk focussed awareness videos and associated electronic flipbooks.
The team produce the scripts for the videos and work with an animation studio to bring the scripts to life through animated videos. The content is easily accessible for all colleagues and provides a simple, consistent message around risk awareness.
Operational performance manager, Paul Bryant, who leads on the project commented: “It means a lot to be recognised for something I consider as part of my day-to-day management duties – to improve the service to our clients but also ensuring we are educating and training our employees.
“We wanted to create these videos for the field teams to have the ability to access the information at any time in an engaging format. We get a lot of positive feedback on the videos, but we also do not want to take away the importance of face-to-face learning and instruction, the videos back up the positive work already delivered by the training team.”
The team is continuing this piece of work and currently have further videos in progress with plans for more in the pipeline.