On behalf of the Management team, another big ‘Thank You’ goes out to everyone for continuing to develop and implement their ideas that will help make CEMEX a safer place to work, with better quality and greater efficiency/effectiveness.

The following summary gives a brief overview of the ideas from the December 2022 competition:

• Dagenham Wharf – Have bolted ‘Deflector Panels’ onto under guards so any spillage that creeps under the side skirt, falls and gets deflected back on to CV1 underneath.
• Dagenham Wharf – To improve environmental compliance, the site has purchased a lockable covered oil storage unit and new Bobcat lifting chains.
• Willington quarry – Purchased a remote solar powered CCTV system, with two cameras, to check the water levels and discharge water point using an app on a company mobile phone, and to monitor pumping operations that eliminates the need for staff to attend site out of hours to check the pumps.

After very close voting results, our congratulations go out to Steve Batty and the Dagenham Wharf team who took the top award this month with the Deflector Panels initiative! It’s a good example of minimising spillages from conveyor belts which not only causes additional maintenance and production costs plus additional “Non Value Added” time clearing spillages, but also reduces the chances of Slips, Trips & Falls and manual handling injuries, and improves morale on site!

On the UK News download page:  EXCEED winning idea of the month - Dagenham Wharf (1213 downloads )  you can find a high-level PDF presentation of the winning entry to share with your teams – if you want further information on any of the Ideas, please visit the Ideation platform via the links here.

Here is a direct link where you can search for any topic https://cemex.idhall.com/