Congratulations to the January 2024 Thanks For Your Effort winners Matt Baker and Christina Shields, Logistics Support, Supply Chain.

Matt and Christina won the Award for going above and beyond their day jobs to deliver an excellent example of safety innovation.

Their nomination was made by Carl Milton, Cement Logistics Manager, Supply Chain – Logistics, and here is why Carl nominated them:

A safety improvement project has been rolled out to convert written safe systems of work into short films. This initiative makes them both easier to consume and digest and makes the subject matter much more dynamic and memorable. This brings significant benefits in how to impart valuable key safety information and collaborates well with the driver digital handbook for drivers to visit and review. Matt and Christina volunteered to take this project forward and have shown great leadership, innovation and passion to develop the programs and take it forward, working outside of their comfort zones, learning to story board, film, narrate and edit the films. They have produced films as good as professional equivalent that would cost thousands of pounds to have made externally, much more difficult to produce and be able to keep up to date. Matt and Christina have made an invaluable contribution to the success of this program.

The whole team has benefited from this project, and it has also created greater engagement with the driver’ workforce who have been involved, consulted, and also taken part in the filming. This best practice is certainly going to become more widespread in the business.

This has been an excellent example of safety innovation and development for Cemex and a great advertisement for the standard and professionalism of our safety training and processes. We are leaders in health and safety innovation, and this helps to re-enforce that perception and this best practice will be shared across Cemex and the industry.