New year ‘Safer for All’ at Hills Quarry Products

Employees begin first day back at work with a two-hour health and safety training session

HILLS Quarry Products delayed the opening of all their sites on the first day back to work in the New Year to allow employees to participate in a special two-hour health and safety training session as part of the company’s ongoing ‘Safer for All’ campaign.

Peter Andrew, group director Hills Quarry Products, said: ‘Health and safety will always be top priority for us and starting off the New Year by focusing on health and safety will help us reinforce our ‘Safer for All’ philosophy, and help to continue to deliver improvements in employee safety and well-being.

‘We have reviewed our achievements over the past year and set new health and safety targets for 2016 based on the feedback received from employees and independent health and safety auditors. The training session allowed us to communicate these targets to our employees.’

The training sessions, which were held across operational sites in Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Dorset where Hills operate sand and gravel quarries and ready-mixed concrete production plants, coincided with the launch of a new employee ‘Safer for All’ health and safety magazine.

The ‘Safer for All’ campaign, introduced at the beginning of 2015 following a company-wide health and safety culture survey, is aimed at ensuring that attitudes toward promoting a healthier and safer workplace remain a top priority for each employee.

Hills say the campaign delivered significant results over the past 12 months, including a 40% drop in the company’s RIDDOR reportable accidents.