UK parcel delivery company Yodel has received a Gold Award for Occupational Health and Safetyfor the second year in a row from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
The award was presented to Yodel’s sort centres and subsidiary Yodel Transport, in recognitionof continued commitment to high standards of health and safety management. This is the secondconsecutive year that the two departments, which are responsible for the collection, sortation anddistribution of parcels between Yodel’s national sort and local service centres, have scooped aGold Award.
The company’s rate of reportable incidents has reduced significantly year on year since 2009,with the accident incident rate falling by 76% between 2010 and 2011 alone as a result of policyenforcement, risk assessment, cascade briefings, training and monitoring, Yodel said. Yodel is alsocertified to the Occupational Health and Safety standard OHSAS 18001.
Marija Simovic, COO of Yodel commented: “Receiving this prestigious accolade from RoSPA for ourapproach to health and safety management is a great honour and indicates our rigorous attention todetail. Ensuring the safety of our workforce and the public is paramount and it is a priority forus to maintain such high standards.”
The awards are based on each organisation’s occupational health and safety performance assessedagainst the judging criteria and are marked at merit, bronze, silver and gold levels.
David Rawlins, awards manager at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), asafety charity with a 95-year history, said: “The RoSPA Awards programme provides well-deservedrecognition for the winners and spurs on other organisations to raise their standards of accidentand ill-health prevention. We congratulate Yodel on its success and encourage it, and all our otherwinners, to remain committed to safety and health, an approach that is well recognised to be goodfor workers and the bottom line.”
The RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards scheme dates back to 1956 and is the largest andlongest-running programme of its kind in the UK. It recognises commitment to accident andill-health prevention and is open to businesses and organisations of all types and sizes fromacross the UK and overseas. In addition to reviewing accident records, the scheme also considersentrants’ overarching health and safety management systems, including strong leadership andworkforce involvement.
