Southbay Civil Engineering Ltd is a winner in the RoSPA Awards 2016
Southbay Civil Engineering Ltd has been successful in the 60th year of the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2016.
The company, based in North Shields, achieved the Gold award in the prestigious annual scheme run by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
They will be presented with the award during a ceremony at the Hilton Glasgow hotel, on September 15, 2016, as the event marked its diamond anniversary.
The RoSPA Awards is celebrating 60 years of presenting highly-regarded and sought after accolades to businesses and organisations which have shown commitment to accident and ill-health prevention.
Through the scheme, which is open to businesses and organisations of all types and sizes from across the UK and overseas, judges consider entrants’ overarching occupational health and safety management systems, including practices such as leadership and workforce involvement.
Julia Small, RoSPA’s head of awards and events, said: “To win an award at such a highly-regarded event as the RoSPA Awards is a great achievement for our winners. It recognises their commitment to maintaining an excellent health and safety record and raises the bar for other organisations to aspire to. We offer them our congratulations.”
“This year was doubly special for our winners as their achievements were recognised as the RoSPA Awards celebrated its diamond anniversary, which is a ringing endorsement of the thousands of businesses and organisations that have committed to continuous improvement in accident and ill-health prevention.”
Paul Stephenson, Managing Director said: “Southbay work hard to continually improve the standard of health and safety, as Managing Director I am overjoyed at our efforts being recognised by being awarded the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award. This is great news in terms of H&S to our employees but fantastic news to our Clients, they know they can rely on Southbay to deliver a quality project safely. More of the same next year!”
