To win a RoSPA Well being and Security Award is in no way a simple feat. Final 12 months alone, we acquired near 2,000 entries from throughout the globe. To attain one gold achievement 
award is a incredible accolade to your group… nonetheless, to proceed that profitable streak 12 months after 12 months is excellent. In 2019, Nottingham primarily based civil and electrical engineering agency J. McCann & Co. Ltd did simply that and achieved their fourth RoSPA Gold Achievement Award (they usually could not be extra delighted).
An Achievement Award really is the accolade that security professionals throughout all industries aspire to. In our newest interview with four-time Gold Award Winner, J. McCann & Co. Ltd explains how profitable a RoSPA Award has impacted their organisation…
What motivates you/your group to enter the RoSPA Awards?
Getting into the RoSPA Awards motivates our group to drive enhancements for our protected methods of labor, 12 months upon 12 months. It additionally permits us to reveal our dedication to the security of our workers, contractors and all others affected by our work, while enabling us to showcase and have a good time the success of our workforce, who work to an award-winning normal.
Successful a Gold Award for the fourth consecutive 12 months is proof of how entry into the awards course of drives and develops our methods.
What advantages does profitable a RoSPA Award have for you/your organisation?
Successful a RoSPA award helps our sturdy well being and security tradition that now we have right here at McCann and helps to offer nice supporting proof to a consumer’s Pre-qualification Questionnaires (PQQs).
We additionally show that we’re a RoSPA Gold Award Winner in all of our e mail signatures, which helps to advertise us as a company that works to extraordinarily excessive requirements, particularly on the subject of well being and security.
What do you get pleasure from most in regards to the RoSPA Awards course of?
We at all times stay up for the awards dinner as a result of it’s a nice alternative for our help workers to obtain recognition for the crucial work that they do. We organize for as lots of them as attainable to be on the dinner the place they’ll loosen up and meet with different staff from our websites and have a good time shared success.
What do you assume the applicant might do over the 12 months to maintain drafting an awards submission easy?
To ensure a straight ahead submission, it is very important stay organized. Initially, you must learn the RoSPA submission steering and take the time to digest all the data and completely perceive it.
Assigning the accountability to at least one particular person ensures that they’re centered on the submission and might take management of what’s wanted at every stage. The designated worker ought to then make folders for every of the submission headings and collate proof as they go, for instance, saving any related emails. When submitting proof, it’s helpful to categorize the proof early on as this can assist to forestall a repetition of proof throughout the completely different classes.
What recommendation would you give to organizations contemplating coming into the awards for the primary time, or how would you persuade organizations not coming into the awards to start out coming into?
Initially, the awards are about telling the story of what’s going nicely utilizing info you have already got, which might be less complicated than you could assume, so it’s at all times value coming into. Additionally, do not keep away from coming into you probably have had an incident at work. The RoSPA Awards are an ideal alternative to indicate that you’ve developed mature security processes, however may also present the way you study from such incidents to forestall them from occurring once more. This may additionally result in alternatives to reveal key studying and share findings with the remainder of your wider business.
We might advise not repeating the identical proof throughout the classes, which is the place preparation and group play an enormous half. It is also good to do not forget that much less is extra along with your written submission. Draft 
your doc and test the phrase rely, you’ll possible exceed the phrase restrict the primary time you do it however maintain engaged on it till it is as succinct as attainable.
So what’s stopping you? The method of becoming a member of the worldwide RoSPA Award-winning neighborhood could not be less complicated. Merely go to www.rospa.com/awards, register on-line, and submit your entry through our on-line portal. First time entry? Don’t fret, as help and steering is obtainable by our mentoring scheme – learn this weblog to search out out extra.