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Five Full Members of British Precast have won Best Practice 2009 Awards after submitting outstanding entries into our annual competition, which comprises the categories health and
safety, innovation, sustainability and best project.
Marshalls Plc and Aggregate Industries, both with two winning entries, Decomo, Ecoratio and Tarmac Building Products all scooped first prizes at a ceremony at British Precast’s Annual
Conference and Expo in Leicester on 12th May.
In addition, several member companies were awarded High Commendations and Honourable Mentions for their entries.
British Precast holds the annual award scheme to recognise the excellent work carried out by its members and provides another way of sharing best practice within the membership.
The winners and runners-up
For details of the Innovation awards, please visit the innovation feature page, and for details of the Best Project awards, please visit the projects feature page.
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WINNER
Tarmac Building Products - Tarmac Improvement Plan 2008 - Safety, Health and Environment
!During 2008, Tarmac Building Product’s Safety Improvement Plan comprised five elements including accountability, communication, SHE committees, SHE management systems and contractors. Systems implemented included one-to-one briefings explaining SHE accountability, personal objectives for the whole line management chain, a range of DVDs shown to staff, a safety climate survey, actions to make the SHE committees more effective, and a new training course covering risk assessment and safe systems of work.
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RUNNER-UP
Marshalls Plc - Dynamic Risk Assessments
Since its implementation, Marshalls’ Dynamic Risk Assessment (DRA) has reduced engineering-based accidents and incidents by 84% at its Brookfoot site. The DRA is used by all contractors and Marshalls’ own engineers, who complete a tick-box assessment that identifies risks such as asbestos, fumes and adverse weather, and prompts taking measures to lessen the risks. It is now used across the group.
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HONOURABLE MENTION
Aggregate Industries - AIMS 5
In 2000 Aggregate Industries created AIMS, a project focused on raising the profile of health and safety across the entire workforce, by giving health and safety presentations. In 2008, AIMS 5 was designed to be more interactive, so was produced as a DVD featuring a cartoon character called Observant Safety Conscious Avoid Risks, or OSCAR for short! Along with an accompanying booklet, the presentation cost £50,000 to produce, but helped to exceed the company’s targeted lost time injury reduction.
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HONOURABLE MENTION
Aggregate Industries - Safety Management System
Along with a management restructure at Charcon Specialist Products’ C factory, the entire safety management system was re-assessed. Interactive auditing, training, tool box talks, and projects such as MONTIE and AIMS contributed to improved health and safety. At the time of the award entry, the factory had seen 730 days since its last lost time injury, and the number of injuries reduced by 65% on the previous year.
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Sustainability Award – sponsored by Hanson Cement
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WINNER
Marshalls Plc - Carbon Labelling
From October 2008, all of Marshalls’ 503 domestic landscaping products were carbon labelled using the Carbon Trust’s official Carbon Reduction Label. The label indicates to consumers the amount of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted from extracting and processing the raw materials, and manufacturing, distributing, and disposing of the product at the end of its life. With the carbon labelling scheme, Marshalls now has the largest number of carbon-labelled products in the world.
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SPECIAL JUDGES’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNICATIONS
Aggregate Industries - 10 Years 10 Places (10 Years of Improvement 1997-2007)
Aggregate Industries was presented with a special judge’s award for Excellence in Communications for the 10 Years 10 Places sustainability report, which features everyday stories of how Aggregate Industries’ employees, community partners, contractors and customers have delivered sustained growth with reduced environmental effect. Broken down into four key sections - Where we work, The people around us, Where we do business and The world around us - the report highlights how the company plays a vital role in the sustainable future of its business and the wider world, considering not only the much publicised climate change and CO2 debate, but also biodiversity, pollution control, waste, water and local nuisance. A 10-year summary report, it was designed to influence employees by making them aware of the significant progress made over 10 years in areas of turnover, production and employee headcount, and reduction in lost time injury, community complaints and in process energy consumption per tonne of production.
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HIGH COMMENDATION
H+H UK- Energy Accreditation and Carbon Reduction Programme
After successfully reducing its carbon footprint on an absolute emissions basis by 2.5% year-on-year for the preceding three years, H+H UK has become the first UK aircrete and precast concrete manufacturer to achieve accreditation under the Carbon Trust’s Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme. H+H provided 38 pieces of evidence to the scheme assessor, who awarded the company a final mark of over 80% for energy efficiency. Systems installed to achieve the carbon reduction include, among others, the reuse of waste steam and heat, invertors on electrical motors, the use of captured rain and canal water in place of mains water, and an ongoing planning application to install a wind turbine at one site.
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JOINT WINNER
Aggregate Industries - Ashington Dry Grinding and Polishing
Aggregate Industries championed the concrete landscape products market by installing the first dry grinding/shot-blasting facility in the UK at its Ashington site in Northumberland. It has resulted in a reduction of 28% in energy consumption, and both the slurry waste and the water use has reduced to zero. In addition, all waste is recycled. The scheme has helped to save 1,932 tonnes of virgin material, removed 154 HGV movements and improved working conditions, while also resulting in cost savings.
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JOINT WINNER
Marshalls Plc - Brookfoot Shotblast Dust Recycling Scheme
The Shotblast Dust Recycling Scheme is an engineering intervention that has reduced waste to landfill material and demand for aggregates by 1,350 tonnes a year. It has also reduced the requirement for pigment by 23,000kg, has increased the recycling of aggregate waste by 29% on site and provided a business savings projected to be £63,000 a year. The system is managed and largely designed by Marshalls’ own engineers and monitored by its own operators and environmental representatives. It has resulted in a reduction in the transportation of unneeded aggregates from quarry to site to zero, and no human contact with dust.
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HIGH COMMENDATION
Aggregate Industries - Installation and Control of Water discharge into Bothlin Burn
In Chryston, all water used from the manufacturing process and all other sources has to be discharged into nearby Bothlin Burn, and all water that seeps into the ground hopper has to be pumped out and discharged. In order to comply with Scottish Environmental Protection Agency legislation, controls were installed at various points throughout the process that have resulted in proper water recycling and the introduction of a state-of-the-art telemetry system for monitoring, ensuring that abnormal conditions are detected immediately.
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HIGH COMMENDATION
Marshalls Plc - Employee training at Marshalls Brookfoot
Marshalls launched a programme of competence training at its Brookfoot site that led to formal NVQ qualifications for 212 of its operators and has underpinned a number of performance improvements and employee participation. The results recorded include a declining trend in accidents and environmental incidents, an increase in recycled materials, and a year-on-year cost saving.
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