Safety is our Number One priority but in West Europe Materials there has been a bad run of accidents recently.  To address this, the Materials UK Management team are significantly increasing their VFLs for March, April and May to increase our visibility within the business and to focus on safety safety in the workplace and with our drivers.

In future UK News editions, we will be sharing details of the VFLs so help share the learnings.

This week Marcus Rappensberger, General And Commercial Manager – Readymix, shared the following:

In London and the South Coast, we have decided to take this opportunity to encourage our Operations Managers to cross visit each other’s sites and bring a fresh set of eyes and experience to our sites. It is hoped that we might increase our hazard detection and use the opportunity to share best practices. It’s not intended to be an exhaustive exercise but one that over the next few months we review and learn from. We are interested in staff engagement with our safety initiatives such as Take 5 Together, site inductions, isolation procedures and housekeeping to name a few. We also want to increase our interaction with our drivers.