British Gypsum, Fauld Mine, have been awarded a Ruby for their efforts in improving colleague health and wellbeing. The majority of the Fauld site is based underground in the mine, meaning the quality of the working environment is key to a colleague’s health and wellbeing. The team at Fauld have undertaken several projects to reduce respirable dust levels, noise and diesel emissions.

Fauld drill operators are now placed within an enclosed cabin, limiting their exposure to noise and dust. One of the site’s scoop trucks has also been fitted with a new engine, reducing the amount of diesel particulates within the mine by 50%.

IDS Leeds has been on a journey over the past 3 years, gradually adapting their culture and overall approach to EHS; resulting in the site going 3,000 days accident free.

The Diamond Awards have been a learning process for IDS Leeds and, after applying 3 years ago, they realised that there was room for improvement and started to make huge developments by visiting other Diamond Award winning sites.

The Ilkeston site has an open reporting policy which means that colleagues are able to make suggestions to EHS management and this has resulted in drastic improvements to the safety of those working on site.

As a result the site launched their LOTO (Lock Out Tag Out) project that enables operators to have the capability and training to isolate their machines making them safe to clean and maintain. This, along with other projects on site has resulted in zero accidents at TF1 level.

Sometimes staff and customers can’t get to the site and so Greenworks introduced their Probuild Tour enabling them to train at other sites. This has resulted in a saving of 12 tonnes of CO2 as customers are no longer travelling to and from the site.

Greenworks not only promotes sustainability and environmental excellence but demonstrates it at their site too. The Zero Impact project saw solar panels being installed on the Greenworks roof to provide power to the site resulting in a saving of 3,000kg of CO2.

British Gypsum Sherburn were awarded a Health and Safety Diamond for an exemplary project undertaken by the warehouse team to create a short video involving different scenarios that could potentially lead to accidents on site, and how decision making on site could lead to very different outcomes. As a result the film has been shared across the Group as a great example at how an innovative approach to communication can greatly improve the culture at site level.

JP Corry were awarded a Health and Safety Diamond for the work they did in educating their employees on how they can act safer and generate a safer environment for themselves as well as customers, suppliers and partners helping to reinforce the zero harm ambition of Saint-Gobain.

SGBD UK & Ireland were awarded a Health and Safety Diamond for the development and implementation of an interactive health and safety management system called EDM, which allowed instant access to a wealth of health and safety information, guidance and support across the 950+ sites that make up the business. It is accessible to all staff at every branch and has delivered huge operational efficiency benefits so that help branch staff spend less time searching for the right information and more time doing the things they need to do.

CTD were awarded an Environmental Emerald for the approach to a holistic stewardship programme across their branch network built around iso16001. Critical to the success of this approach and eventual accreditation of ISO16001 was the engagement levels achieved with the branch staff.?