Building contractor Speller Metcalfe has launched a new campaign aimed at driving behavioural change in health and safety.
“No More Excuses” aims to set a precedent for encouraging site operatives to highlight unsafe working in a culture that often relies on site management to take the first action.
Des O’Neill, group managing director at Speller Metcalfe and driver of the new initiative, explained the significance of the campaign: “Speller Metcalfe has a great health and safety track record, but to stay at the forefront of construction we recognise this can always improve.
“As such in 2016 we invited the HSE to our offices to discuss how we could move forward and it became clear that as an industry, we need a cultural change at site level that encourages operatives to speak up about health and safety in order to stop issues escalating or becoming problems in the first place.”
Essentially the campaign is aiming to create an environment where speaking up becomes a positive action to prevent accidents and near misses, rather than ignoring safety issues or waiting to for problems to escalate.
“However, we know that the majority of work across our sites is up there with the best, and we are encouraging operatives to use a text service to send their comments – in particular highlighting exemplar performance and ideas – that we can then share as best practice on our No More Excuses website and external communications.”
As an incentive, subcontractors that share innovative or new ideas to improve health and safety will be promoted through email campaigns to Speller Metcalfe’s clients and supply chain, with those regularly scoring in the ‘Top 20’ monthly health and safety audits awarded with Certificates of Excellence, which can be used to increase scores for future tenders with the contractor.
For more information visit www.nomore-excuses.co.uk
