3 December: The British Safety Council presented the Sword of Honour and Globe of Honour to 2013 winners at its celebratory awards luncheon at the Goldsmiths’ Hall in the City of London on 29 November. These awards, for health and safety management and environmental management excellence respectively, are made in recognition of the exemplary performance by the winning organisations and their employees.
Presenting the awards Lynda Armstrong OBE, chair of the Trustees of the British Safety Council, said: “Our warmest congratulations to the eight of our member organisations who have won the Globe of Honour and the 68 organisations who have won the Sword of Honour. Seven organisations won both the Sword and Globe of Honour. Our warmest congratulations to all of the winning organisations and all of your employees.
“What the awards being bestowed today enable us to do is recognise and celebrate the excellence of the winning organisations and your employees in managing health, safety and environmental risks.
“The standard we have set in order to win the Sword of Honour and Globe of Honour is high. We intend that the winning standard will remain high, with the bar being raised every year, to ensure that the role of the awards in driving continued improvement is sustained.”
The winning organisations (listed below) came from a wide range of sectors including construction, custodial services, education and training, energy generation and distribution, financial services, food and drink, leisure, logistics, major hazards, manufacturing, motor vehicle manufacture, offshore oil and gas, retail and transport.
Lynda Armstrong added: “The winning organisations are united in their shared belief that proportionate and competent risk management brings both financial and social benefits to their organisations. Managing health, safety and environmental risks effectively does not need to be onerous; quite the opposite.”
The British Safety Council paid tribute to those seven organisations who won the ‘double’ – both the Sword of Honour and Globe of Honour. These were: AWE Construction; Dubai Electricity and Water Authority; Hargreaves Industrial Services (Liverpool Bulk Handling Terminal); Mace Ltd (Technology and Renewable Energy) Horizon Centre; Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd; Unipart Consumer Logistics – Cowley; and United Biscuits – Midlands Distribution Centre.
The 2013 awards mark the 34th consecutive year of the British Safety Council’s Sword of Honour, awarded for health and safety management excellence, and the fourth year of the Globe of Honour, awarded for excellence in environmental management.
The winners had achieved the maximum five stars in the British Safety Council’s audit scheme in the period August 2012 – July 2013. They have also demonstrated to an independent adjudication panel a culture of best practice in health and safety or environmental management throughout the business – from the shopfloor to the boardroom.
The winning organisations are drawn from countries such as Germany, Jersey, India, the Middle and Far East and the United Kingdom, demonstrating the global spirit of the awards.
British Safety Council Sword of Honour winners 2013
Adelphi Care Services Ltd
ARAMARK Aberdeen
Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd
AWE Construction Major Projects
AWE Construction Projects Group
Babcock International Group, Babcock Rosyth
Balcas Timber Ltd, Enniskillen
Bharat Forge Ltd, Mundhwa, Pune
Bhilai Jaypee Cement Ltd, Babupur, Satna
BP CATS Terminal
BP Forties Pipeline System
Castle Leisure Ltd, Barnes Hill
Castle Leisure Ltd, Bootle
Communisis Print and Mailing, Copley
DDW-PaxOcean Shipyard Pte Ltd
Diamond Light Source Ltd
DLF Utilities Ltd Cinema Division
Doosan Power Systems
Drydocks World, Dubai
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
FES Ltd, Astro House
Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd
G4S, Utility and Outsourcing Services (UK) Ltd
Glasgow Airport Ltd
GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd
Hargreaves Industrial Services, Tata Steel Site, Scunthorpe
Hargreaves Industrial Services, Liverpool Bulk Handling Terminal
Jaiprakash Associates Ltd, Heavy Engineering Workshop
Jaiprakash Associates Ltd, Jaypee Rewa Plant
Howden UK, Construction and Maintenance Division
JCB Excavators Ltd
JCB Heavy Products Ltd
Jersey Electricity plc, La Collette Power Station & Queens Road Powerhouse
Lanco Tanjore Power Company Ltd
Larsen & Toubro MHI Boilers Pvt Ltd
Larsen & Toubro Power 2 x 600 MW Shree Singaji Thermal Power Plant (Malwa)
Lloyds Banking Group, Mail Processing Centre, Andover
Lloyds Banking Group, Mail Processing Centre, Leeds
London Container Terminal (Tilbury) Ltd
M+W High Tech Projects UK Ltd
Mace Ltd (Technology and Renewable Energy) Horizon Centre
Magnox Ltd, Oldbury Site
Maltings Academy, Spinks Lane, Witham
McArthurGlen Designer Outlet, Bridgend
McArthur Glen Designer Outlet, Livingston
National Construction College, Waltham Forest
Nifco UK Ltd
Office Depot UK Ltd, Northampton
OMF German Services, GmbH, McArthurGlen Designer Outlet, Berlin
Orion Group, Head Office
Plymouth Community Homes, Plumer House
Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd
Ricoh UK Products Ltd, Telford and Wellingborough
SABCAT/STC-R
Serco Home Affairs, HMP Kilmarnock
Shriram Alkali and Chemicals
Sodexo Justice Services, HMP Forest Bank
St Leger Homes of Doncaster
Sutton Housing Partnership Ltd
Unipart Aftermarket Logistics, Baginton A
Unipart Aftermarket Logistics, Honeybourne
Unipart Consumer Logistics, Cowley
Unipart Technology Logistics, Baginton B
Unipart Technology Logistics, Magna Park
Unipart Technology Logistics, Nuneaton
United Biscuits, Midlands Distribution Centre
Wellcome Trust
Wyman-Gordon, Livingston
British Safety Council Globe of Honour winners 2013
AWE Construction and Project Mensa
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
Hargreaves Industrial Services, Liverpool Bulk Handling Terminal
Jubail United Petrochemical Company
Mace Ltd (Technology and Renewable Energy) Horizon Centre
Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd
Unipart Consumer Logistics, Cowley
United Biscuits, Midlands Distribution Centre
Joint winners of the Sword of Honour & Globe of Honour 2013
AWE Construction
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
Hargreaves Industrial Services (Liverpool Bulk Handling Terminal)
Mace Ltd (Technology and Renewable Energy) Horizon Centre
Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd
Unipart Consumer Logistics – Cowley
United Biscuits – Midlands Distribution Centre
