The Sheffield Occupational Health and Safety Association’s Annual General Meeting 2010 saw the announcement of the Frank Smith Award 2010, which recognises and rewards creativity and innovation in health and safety. This award is issued on an annual basis to individuals or organisations that share best practice that can help others to improve standards, raise awareness, tackle issues and improve occupational health and safety performance in their workplaces.
Announced by John Pearce, past chairman of the association, the 2010 Frank Smith Award was presented by Diane Etchell, HM Inspector of Health and Safety with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), to Chris Jerman, Health and Safety Manager at John Lewis plc for his initiative in reducing the burden of manual handling assessments across a business with over 300 000 product lines that could be handled in almost infinite combinations. Using an innovative new ‘virtual shape concept’ the idea was to condense these assessments down to a manageable number so that effective training and instruction can be delivered to Partners. The initial assessments for particularly large and heavy items have resulted in a comprehensive national training programme, train-the-trainer, video assessments and a dedicated ‘mock-up’ house for training. The initiative has already achieved a dramatic reduction in back injuries and Partners have expressed their views of the programme as being some of the best training that they have ever received. The next part of the initiative called SHAPE focuses on the smaller but, nonetheless significant, items handled within the Branches.
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