At the close of a successful 2019 RoSPA Health and Safety Awards, 20% of entries received were from international organizations… that’s more than ever before! From Mauritius to Hong Kong, our community awards continue to grow year after year.
Based at their head office in Shenzhen, China, we spoke to Huang Yuan Zheng, President of China General Nuclear Europe Energy (CGN EE), about their awards journey towards their first RoSPA Health and Safety Award…
What motivated you/your organization to enter the RoSPA Awards?
RoSPA is an international organization for the prevention of accidents, it is an honor for CGN EE to receive recognition from this institution.
What benefits does winning a RoSPA Award have for you/your organization?
The Awards help us to demonstrate our commitment to excellent standards. In addition, it contributes to motivating our workforce to become better and better in that field. We are always looking for ways to improve our organization.
Which innovative approaches, risk assessment practices and/or control measures to manage health and safety are you particularly proud of from your most recent RoSPA Awards submission?
At CGN EE we have adopted a range of tools which help us in many ways to standardize practices, be more efficient and communicate in advance of upcoming dangerous weather conditions during maintenance work.
Five HSE tools have been acquired:
Software managing all statutory checks of our assets and helps us to manage training, all safety equipment and HSE documents
Software dedicated to regulatory analysis in all the countries where CGN EE is located
Software for the HSE induction of our contractors
A system for the forecast of lightning in order to keep our contractors informed about dangerous weather conditions
HSE audit software.
What outcomes have come from your organization’s approach to health and safety management (eg fewer accidents, reduced absence/lost working days, greater feelings of staff wellbeing etc.)?
We are able to communicate and share a range of indicators via monthly SHE reports and as part of our management reviews. The indicators include, but are not limited to, the following:
Status of the current construction site
Accidents and near-miss
Incidents and hazards
safety observations
Initiatives
Training/inductions
current issues
Environmental management
Behavioral safety observations and performance
Audits and inspections
Safety actions required to be flagged.
What do you enjoy most about the RoSPA Awards process?
It takes time, effort and hard work to improve HSE within a company. CGN EE has always placed this field as a critical business operation on a day to day basis. This recognition confirms that we are working in the right direction since the beginning of our activities in 2014, but it is just the beginning…
What do you think entrants could do over the year to keep drafting an award submission simple?
To keep drafting an award submission simple, entrants should keep track and proof of the efficiency of their system throughout the year. They also need to think about continuous improvement and how to improve HSE performance.
What advice would you give to organizations considering entering the RoSPA Awards for the first time?
The RoSPA Awards is a long term process, it reflects the effectiveness and commitment of an organization in terms of HSE. My advice is to focus on improving the HSE performance of your organization and the Awards process will be naturally delivered to those who can demonstrate this efficiency.
How would you convince organizations not entering the RoSPA Awards to start entering?
RoSPA is a well-known organization for the prevention of accidents, it helps companies to improve their HSE performance based on the continuous improvement approach. Following RoSPA guidelines is a guarantee to work in the right direction for the management of HSE. In addition, the achieved internal and external recognition will be motivating for all interested parties.
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This year the birth of Robert Burns and the Lunar New Year fell on the same date, 25th january. A time for Scots and Asian heritage to be celebrated, a time for reflection and forward planning.
My favorite Robert Burns poem is ‘To a Mouse’, written in 1785 it tells the story of Burns disturbing a mouse nest whilst plowing a field, a panic stricken mouse, its ruined nest and with winter just around the corner, its world in disarray .
There is a line in the poem, ‘The best laid plans o’mice an’ men gang aft agley’ that resonates within OSH world. That despite our reflection on ‘what works’ and our forward planning, things don’t always go our way… and we need support to bring the best out in ourselves and our organizations.
Every year since 1956, RoSPA has provided the opportunity for people and organizations to ‘tell their story’ and share their successes through the internationally recognized RoSPA Health & Safety Awards. This network extends to 40 countries around the world and working with the people involved in bringing submissions together is the best part of my role! At present, we now have 25 RoSPA Awards Ambassadors, with three active overseas; Stephen Storey in Chennai, Mathew Jackson in the United Arab Emirates, and Ben Legg based in Madrid. All of our Ambassadors act as mentors, and Stephen is delivering an event in Chennai later in March.
However, with almost 2000 entrants and even with the extra day available in 2020, bringing the best out in this global network needed extra pairs of hands. People with an understanding of the RoSPA Awards process and the ability to construct an effective submission reflecting local context and culture. Bringing to life the work of OSH professionals and practitioners and demonstrating the value they add not only to their organizations but to society as a whole.
The role of the RoSPA Awards Ambassador was created to help ‘us’ become more accessible, provide mentoring opportunities and encourage organizations to tell their OSH stories. Our Ambassadors are unique individuals who give their time to help others progress, they are catalysts for change in their own organizations, who recognize the importance of connecting around current and emerging OSH issues. They know what works and what to do when things ‘gang agley’, led by Graham Parker MSc CFIOSH FIIRSM CIWFM, RoSPA Trustee and Past President IOSH.
If you are already part of the RoSPA Awards and would like to benefit from mentoring, please get in touch with [email protected].
If you are reading this and want to be part of this elite Awards community, drop the awards team at [email protected] or myself [email protected] a message and we will be happy to help.
And remember each 10,000 mile journey begins with one step…
Buyers in Meta inventory wished to listen to one factor on the embattled firm’s earnings name late Wednesday: an acknowledgment by founder Mark Zuckerberg that leaner spending instances had been forward as margins have been squeezed by an ill-timed metaverse construct out and a slowing advert market.
They heard the alternative.
The social media platform outlined about 13% year-over-year expense progress for fiscal 12 months 2023, properly above the Avenue’s forecast of seven%. Meta will clearly proceed to spend aggressively — regardless of the prospects of a 2023 US recession — on Instagram, the metaverse, and VR {hardware}.
“With a brand new CFO in place, some might argue the corporate is being overly conservative,” Deutsche Financial institution analyst Benjamin Black wrote in a word to purchasers, “and whereas Meta usually lowers [operating expenditure] steerage all year long (as they did thus far 12 months up to now), the elevated expense outlook is the improper quantity on the improper time for buyers. Maybe simply as importantly, rising Actuality Labs (RL) bills look like one supply of the elevated expense information as RL working losses are anticipated to develop considerably 12 months over 12 months in 2023.”
Meta shares crashed greater than 20% in pre-market buying and selling on Thursday. The ticker was atop the “Prime Trending” part on the Yahoo Finance platform.
Right here is how Meta carried out within the third quarter, which disenchanted buyers:
Income: $27.7 billion versus $27.4 billion anticipated
Earnings Per Share (EPS): $1.64 versus $1.89 anticipated
Fb Day by day Energetic Customers (DAUs): 1.98 billion versus 1.86 billion anticipated
Fb Month-to-month Energetic Customers (MAUs): 2.96 billion versus 2.97 anticipated
Actuality Labs working loss: $3.67 billion versus $3.09 billion anticipated
The corporate’s outlook additionally wasn’t superb. Meta’s fourth quarter income steerage got here in between $30 billion and $32.5 billion whereas Wall Avenue was anticipating $32.2 billion.
The Home of Zuck additionally introduced that will probably be pacing Actuality Lab investments past 2023, however that spending shall be considerably greater subsequent 12 months.
An attendee sporting a digital actuality (VR) headset tries out a VR utility on the Meta Platforms Inc. sales space on the Viva Know-how convention devoted to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition middle in Paris, France June 16, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Once more, not what buyers wished to listen to.
“We consider buyers will query META’s FY23 steerage of ~15% expense progress and ~13% capex progress right into a slowing digital advert market. Our largest concern is the payback interval for Meta’s mixed ~$130 billion in capex/opex for FY23, which might take years to enhance the income progress trajectory,” Jefferies analyst Brent Thill stated in a consumer word.
Yahoo Finance’s tech workforce of Alexandra Garfinkle and Dan Howley contributed to this story.
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From their Security, Sustainability and Coaching Director, Steven Broom, being awarded
Well being and Security Influencer of the 12 months 2019, to profitable numerous President and Gold Medal Awards throughout a wide range of divisions, Dyer & Butler Ltd loved an impressive 2019.
As one of many first winners of the Influencer of the 12 months Award, we just lately caught up with Steven to search out out Dyer & Butler Ltd’s spectacular awards historical past, and the way profitable a RoSPA Award has benefited each himself and his group…
What advantages does profitable a RoSPA Award have on your organisation?
RoSPA is a well-respected model for the development of security requirements inside the
trade and the affiliation that we’ve had with RoSPA over time underpins our dedication to sustaining these requirements inside our organisation. The advantage of with the ability to present that we’re RoSPA award winners offers us with an immediately recognizable stage of accomplishment, which demonstrates that our firm places the well being, security and wellbeing of our workers first and above all else.
Which progressive approaches, danger evaluation practices and/or management measures to handle well being and security are you significantly happy with?
I’m typically heard to say that “there’s nothing new in well being and security”, and for probably the most half, that is true as a result of quite a lot of good well being and security administration includes the upkeep of sturdy insurance policies and preparations which are then applied, reviewed and improved over time. This facet of the job won’t ever change. Nevertheless, innovation in well being and security has turn out to be so necessary and firms at the moment are striving to make well being and security simpler, extra dependable and finally safer for the individuals concerned by taking the guesswork and human issue out of the state of affairs. Lately we launched a smartphone-based shut name reporting app. This was designed by our personal IT technician and the response that we’ve had by way of our shut name and security reporting tradition has been phenomenal. The introduction of the app has allowed individuals to create the protected behavior of with the ability to immediately establish and report (with accompanying pictures and site particulars) something that’s inflicting them concern. This has had an enormous constructive impact on the best way that we handle well being and security inside Dyer & Butler and has allowed us to maneuver our focus from the reactive administration of incidents to a extra proactive means which permits us to take care of the pre-cursor to occasions that might doubtlessly result in a extra vital loss-making occasion.
Can you share any outcomes which have come out of your group’s method to well being and security administration?
Sharing finest apply and studying might be one of many biggest instruments that a company has and I’ve personally tried to reside by this throughout my profession in well being
and security. I’ve all the time believed that behavioral security is the important thing to good security administration and while it isn’t a “silver bullet”, the act of getting out and speaking to individuals is such an necessary a part of the job. It’s typically the case that our preconceived concepts of how one thing ought to be accomplished safely are fully turned on their head once you communicate to the individual that really has to do the job and it is just then that you simply get to grasp the problems and issues related to really getting the job accomplished safely. It’s only by understanding this, and the method that your workers will take by way of reacting to work-based conditions to get the job accomplished will you perceive why accidents and incidents happen. Coaching can also be an enormous a part of this. I additionally assume that good well being and security administration is about continually reviewing and refreshing what you’re doing. Issues might really feel as if they’re going OK…however do not permit your self to sit down again and settle into a cushty routine as the following large occasion might solely be simply across the nook. Maintain your security tradition sharp and be continually trying and adapting your method to danger.
How have the RoSPA Awards impressed you/your group to repeatedly enhance well being and security administration?
I view the RoSPA awards very very like a set of steps. The achievement awards have supplied our firm with a pure type of development and have required us to take care of our security requirements. As we’ve now achieved a gentle momentum of security inside the enterprise, this has now led us to have a look at among the different awards the place we imagine that we’re inside putting distance of with the ability to win and supply additional
proof that we’ve attained an exemplary stage of security inside our enterprise.
Personally, to win the RoSPA Influencer of the 12 months Award in 2019 was one of many highlights of my profession and after dedicating 23 years of my life to well being and security, I really feel immensely proud to have acquired this stage of endorsement from my colleagues and friends . I’ve by no means been one to shout about what I do, however the recognition of receiving a private award from RoSPA validates how necessary the work that I (and the entire different well being and security professionals inside the nation) do is to the trade.
What do you get pleasure from most concerning the RoSPA Awards?
The RoSPA Awards is all the time a terrific occasion particularly as it’s co-located with The Security & Well being Expo. It’s a improbable alternative to satisfy new suppliers, check new merchandise and innovation and if nothing else… simply to take a time out to immerse your self in well being and security from a special perspective. The Awards Gala Dinner can also be a superb alternative to community and meet up with pals and colleagues and to have fun one another’s success. I’ve to say that the awards evenings are all the time properly organized and are additionally a great alternative to let your hair down on the finish of the night…sure, security professionals do wish to celebration typically…!
Occupied with becoming a member of this spectacular award profitable neighborhood? The RoSPA Awards is open to organisations, initiatives and websites throughout the globe, and is presently open for entries. For info on the awards and the right way to enter, go to www.rospa.com/awards
Pondering of getting into the RoSPA Well being & Security Awards for the primary time? On the face of it, it may appear fairly daunting. “Which a part of the group ought to I enter?Have we obtained sufficient proof to assist the ten key efficiency questions?” And so forth…
In any case, there’s loads of arduous work concerned getting into an internationally acknowledged and extremely prestigious reward scheme, so to make life a bit of simpler, we put collectively this little infographic to indicate you simply how easy it’s to start your awards journey.
Altering greatest apply is on the coronary heart of the RoSPA Awards Community, so to this finish, we have additionally created a sequence of weblog posts to assist first time entrants…
The following deadline for the 2020 RoSPA Awards is April 30, 2020so be sure you register at www.rospa.com/awards and make 2020 a yr to recollect.
