Congratulations to the June 2024 Thanks For Your Effort winner, David Williams, Contracted Maintenance Engineer, Forest Hill.

David won the Award for ‘Acting With Integrity’ and ‘Ensuring Safety’ when faced with an incident where he acted quickly, sensibly and with integrity to save a life. His actions and time on site went well beyond what can be ordinarily expected.

The nomination was made by Colin Jones, UK Security Manager, Security and here is why Colin nominated David:

David arrived at the Forest Hill site 9.45 pm to drop a tractor off ready for dust suppression in the morning. As he was leaving to go home a people carrier was coming slowly down the lane. Being late at night he went over to see what they wanted and the man in the car looked very worried. He explained that he could see on his phone tracker that his girlfriend was in the field by new stock yard by the railway track. He said she had been having mental health issues and had been suffering suicidal depression. David told him how to get into the field she was in and phoned security to say there was another car on site and briefed them with what was happening. He also phoned the police but was told that unless there was a risk to life they could not come out.

The police phoned back later at 11.44pm for an update. David explained nothing had changed and shortly after he heard police sirens. About an hour later the police brought the lady out and informed David that she had attempted suicide.

David acted quickly, sensibly and with integrity to save a life, in large part without support from the police. His actions and time on site went well beyond what can be ordinarily expected.