In 2007 BIS OHARE were awarded the RoSPA President’s Award for Occupational Health and Safety for the third time. This is in recognition of 11 continuous years in which the company has qualified for a RoSPA Gold Award.

BIS OHARE are fully committed to continuously improving health and safety performance, and creating a positive safety culture within which all employees can contribute to their own health and safety, and that of others working alongside them. Managers are tasked from board level with creating the conditions for this culture to develop, and there is a common recognition that good safety is good business.

Improvement is driven through the implementation of a corporate SHE improvement plan, which is revised annually, and cascaded into operating areas through local SHE plans. Improvement focus is maintained by projects or initiatives which engage all members of the workforce in the challenge to achieve improved SHE performance.

The current initiative, launched in this month, is ‘Safely Engaged,’ which sets a personal challenge to feel accountable for safety. This is supported by training, briefings and feedback sessions where the impact of the initiative can be assessed,