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11 Nov 2021

“AND THE WINNER IS…” - MPA & BRITISH PRECAST HEALTH & SAFETY AWARDS RECOGNISE INDUSTRY’S DRIVE TO ‘VISION ZERO’

Actions taken by companies and individuals to keep their colleagues safe and well have been celebrated in the first joint MPA & British Precast Health & Safety Awards.

Themed Safer by Sharing … Safer by Action, the online event on 10th November 2021 highlighted numerous initiatives to address key health and safety challenges, especially elimination of the causes of the ‘The Fatal 6’, the high-consequence hazards that historically have accounted for the industry’s most serious incidents.

The awards took place 12 months on from the launch of Vision Zero – Safe & Well Every Day, the foundation for MPA’s health and safety ambition until 2025. Prizes were awarded in recognition of companies and individuals who have taken action on the ground and shown strong leadership by deploying good practices and innovations, demonstrating their commitment to Vision Zero.

Hosted by BBC presenter Sybil Ruscoe, and sponsored by IDC (Industrial Diagnostics Company), the event was also the first to combine entries from both MPA and British Precast members, with this year’s categories upgraded following feedback from the membership. The new scheme builds on the success of the long established and highly acclaimed MPA Health & Safety Awards.

There are eight new health and safety topic awards, plus a new Young Leader Award category.‘The Fatal 6' Award has been introduced to recognise the company that has delivered an exceptional innovation to eliminate high-consequence hazards.

The Eurobitume Trophy continues to be awarded for outstanding practices in the road contracting and asphalt sector. Winners of these awards were announced ahead of the Individual Recognition Awards.

The Awards event culminated with the announcement of the winners of the coveted John Crabbe Trophy recognising a company at the top of its game in health, safety and wellbeing, and the Sir Frank Davies Trophy presented to an SME demonstrating outstanding commitment to health and safety.

The winners were announced as follows:

John Crabbe Trophy  Breedon (Winner)
CEMEX (Special Award)
Sir Frank Davies Trophy  Mansfield Sand (Winner)
Denfind Stone (Special Award)
Young Leader Award  (Joint 1st) - George Beer, Wainwrights & Philippa O’Leary, CEMEX
(Runner-up) - Oliver Kibble,Tarmac
‘The Fatal 6’ Award  F M Conway Ltd
Eurobitume Award   F M Conway Ltd


Category Topic awards:

Safer maintenance & housekeeping   Mansfield Sand Co Ltd
Safer production   Aggregate Industries
Safer handling of inbound & outbound materials          Imerys Aluminates Ltd
Safer management of pedestrians & transport on site   Acheson + Glover
Safer transport & logistics        F M Conway Ltd
Safer operations at a contracting, construction or customer site Invisible Connections Ltd
Safer through improvements in health & wellbeing       Tarmac
Safer together                 Tarmac


Nigel Jackson, MPA Chief Executive congratulated the award winners and thanked all those who had submitted entries: “We had 136 topic award entries, 30 Young Leader Award submissions and 43 Individual Recognition Award entries from 37 different member companies. The quality as well as the quantity of entries has been impressive. Our new relationship with British Precast has certainly enhanced the breadth and diversity of entries. I am also encouraged that our members and young leaders are embracing Vision Zero with ideas and innovations that directly address ‘The Fatal 6’.

“It’s fantastic to be able to get back to recognising the progress our industry continues to make in health and safety, especially after last year’s pause due to Covid which allowed us to reflect and redefine the shape and scope of the awards to better fit today’s operating environment. The important thing is that we learn the lessons to avoid the problems of the past. The tools and resources from MPA facilitate sharing across the industry and I encourage all our members to explore, read and take the lead to adapt and apply ideas and innovations at their sites.”

MPA Chaiman, Simon Willis said “As an industry we have a collective moral responsibility to make sure everyone goes home safe and well every day. No one person and no one company has all the answers - we can all learn something from the entries into these awards and right now is a golden opportunity to take action. We’re at our best when we learn from each other - everyone is safer by sharing and safer by action.

“We’re all in this together and we all have the same objective. Everyone across the industry in every job role must be empowered to actively contribute to health and safety – we all have the same responsibility and the same right to safe working.”

The MPA thanks the award judges Dave Bagshaw, Darren Broadhead, Rory Graham, David Neave and Terry Rose, and headline sponsor IDC (Industrial Diagnostics Company) plus trophy sponsors Delta V Partners, Eurobitume, MPQC, Weir Minerals and Sense TMR.

Details of all the entries into the MPA & British Precast Health & Safety Awards will be added to safequarry.com, the mineral products global hub for health and safety. The event can also be viewed on the MPA YouTube Channel MineralProducts1 here: MPA and British Precast Health & Safety Awards 2021 - Videos - YouTube.

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About the Mineral Products Association: The Mineral Products Association (MPA) is the trade association for the aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, dimension stone, lime, mortar and silica sand industries. With the merger of British Precast, and affiliation of the British Association of Reinforcement (BAR), Eurobitume, MPA Northern Ireland, MPA Scotland and the British Calcium Carbonate Federation, it has a growing membership of 520 companies and is the sectoral voice for mineral products.

FULL LIST OF AWARDS, WINNERS AND FINALISTS

 

Winner

Finalists

1. Safer maintenance and housekeeping

 

 

 

Mansfield Sand Co Ltd

  • Brickworks – Safe Kiln Access and Inspection Project

 

 

 

Aggregate Industries

  • Structural asset geo-location and logging project

F M Conway

  • Asphalt Drum Hydro Blasting
  • Safer Bitumen Tank Repair

2. Safer production

 

 

 

 

 

Aggregate Industries

  • Removal of Bucket Belt issues and confined space

 

 

 

 

 

EPC UK

  • Danger zone modelling
  • Enhancing safety by utilising drones

F M Conway

  • Heathrow Asphalt Plant Hot RAP Modification

Hanson

  • Innovative and affordable conveyor guarding solution

3. Safer handling of inbound and outbound materials

 

Imerys Aluminates Limited

  • Truck Gantry for Safe working at height. 

Aggregate Industries

  • Easy Tautliner loading
  • Quality Inspections – Wagon Isolation

4. Safer management of pedestrians and transport on site

 

 

 

Acheson + Glover

  • Gateway to SafeDay

 

 

Hanson

  • Illuminated Demarcation of Pedestrian X-Points

Tarmac Building Products

  • Newark VPMP Project

5. Safer transport and logistics

F M Conway Ltd

  • ‘SideScan®Predict ‘

Brett Aggregates Ltd

  • Safer Cab to Trailer Suzie Connection

CEMEX

  • Rollover Prevention Programme

F M Conway Ltd

  • ‘Viewmatics‘

6. Safer operations on site

 

 

 

Invisible Connections Ltd

  • Telescopic connectors

 

 

Acheson + Glover

  • Machine Install Anchor Vertica®

F M Conway Ltd

  • Taking the Strain Out of Manual Handling

7. Safer through improvements in health and wellbeing

 

 

 

 

Tarmac Ltd

Creation of an OHWB Learning Centre at “The Park”

 

 

Breedon GB Materials

  • Chromate identification & Quantification

Aggregate Industries

  • Live PM10 Monitoring

Hanson

  • Three concurrent Cement Works Shutdowns (Covid)

8. Safer together

 

 

 

Tarmac Ltd (Multiple Activities)

  • Professional Operator Development Programme

 

Breedon GB Materials

  • HSEQ NEW Hub

F M Conway Ltd

  • The Big Ten in Ten         

Eurobitume Award for outstanding work in the road contracting and asphalt sector

F M Conway (Combination of entries)

Hanson

John Wainwright & Co Ltd

‘The Fatal 6' Award - recognising exceptional innovation to eliminate high-consequence hazards

F M Conway - The Big Ten in Ten   

 

Young Leader Award

Joint 1st - George Beer - Wainwrights

Stuart Peebles - Tarmac

Joint 1st - Philippa O’Leary - CEMEX

Barbara Parkes - Ibstock

Runner-up - Oliver Kibble - Tarmac

James Dunford - Tarmac

 

Sarah Howarth - Aggregate Industries

John Crabbe Trophy

Breedon

Cemex (Special Award)

Sir Frank Davies Trophy

Mansfield Sand

Denfind Stone (Special Award)

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INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION AWARDS NOMINATIONS

 

YOUNG LEADER AWARDS NOMINATIONS

Sarah Howarth

Aggregate Industries

 

Phil Robinson

Aggregate Industries

Linzi McDade

Breedon

 

Stuart Peebles

Tarmac Ltd

Maintenance Team

Brett Landscaping & Building Products

 

Michael Maxwell

Tarmac Ltd

Adam Harrison

CEMEX

 

Philippa O’Leary

CEMEX

Christian Vale

CEMEX

 

Ryan Simon

Tarmac Ltd

Dan Bateman

CEMEX

 

Chris Wragg

Tarmac Ltd

Dann King

CEMEX

 

Kyle Smith

Tarmac Ltd

Ian McGregor

CEMEX

 

James Sykes

CEMEX

Jason Barker

CEMEX

 

George Beer

John Wainwright & Co Ltd

Luke Devine

CEMEX

 

Barbara Parkes

Ibstock plc

Marco Murillo

CEMEX

 

Bradley Richardson

Breedon

Mark Beagrie

CEMEX

 

Lewis Coxon

CEMEX

Paul Carey

CEMEX

 

Felicity Nkomo

Hanson

Stuart McGregor

CEMEX

 

Jack Tadman

Hanson

Aaron Manning

F M Conway Ltd

 

Sam Wallace

Hanson

Dave Thomas

F M Conway Ltd

 

Miriam Joyce

Hanson

Dean Edwards

F M Conway Ltd

 

Mawgan Naylor

Hanson

Derek Buckley

F M Conway Ltd

 

Fraser Longwill

Hanson

Eric Moloney

F M Conway Ltd

 

Callum Dunn

Hanson

Gerard Minter

F M Conway Ltd

 

Joseph Ferguson

Hanson

Jerry Banks

F M Conway Ltd

 

Jake Hawkins

Hanson

Kevin Riley

F M Conway Ltd

 

Zac Teller

Hanson

Kevin Ward

F M Conway Ltd

 

Ross Exon

Hanson

Leon Simpson

F M Conway Ltd

 

Joel Ives

Hanson

Mark Whelehan

F M Conway Ltd

 

Harper Smith

Hanson

Michael Henderson

F M Conway Ltd

 

Kamil Ogrodowicz

Hanson

Sean Sowney

F M Conway Ltd

 

Joel O'Connor

Hanson

Ben Street

Hanson

 

Anna Jackson

Hanson

Gareth Cooksley

Hanson

 

Alex Pitt

Hanson

Gemma Crampton

Hanson

 

Dyllan Angishan-Law

Hanson

Michael Grant

Leiths Scotland Ltd

 

Ella Maciver

Hanson

Adam Taylor

Lhoist

 

Emma Burke

Hanson

Mark Roberts

Mansfield Sand Co Ltd

 

James Dunford

Tarmac

Rob Oliver

Singleton Birch Ltd

 

Oliver Kibble

Tarmac Ltd

Craig Leigh

Tarmac Trading Ltd

 

Sarah Howarth

Aggregate Industries

Derek Kyle

Tarmac Trading Ltd

 

 

 

Greg Reeder

Tarmac Trading Ltd

 

 

 

John Wright

Tarmac Trading Ltd

 

 

 

Kyle Cowdery

Tarmac Trading Ltd

 

 

 

Peter Brodigan

Tarmac Trading Ltd

 

 

 

Rob Maurice Jones

Tarmac Trading Ltd

 

 

 

Ryan Simon

Tarmac Trading Ltd

 

 

 

Ryan Thomas

Tarmac Trading Ltd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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