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Westinghouse UK, Springfields site is recognised for its achievements in working together to improve health and safety, and embraced the principles of partnership as a way to high performance and mutual benefits over 10 years ago. Employee involvement, with union support, was a key contributor to this transformation.
Springfields' health and safety record improved significantly from 88 lost time accidents (LTAs) requiring more than three days absence and 900 incidents requiring medical treatment in 1988 to just one LTA in 2004/5 and 73 incidents requiring first aid treatment.
Alongside these figures, sickness absence also reduced from 10.2 in 1988 to 6.7 per employee in 2004/5.
In addition to these safety improvements, the site has also achieved a number of successes in managing a challenging transformation programme and in jointly dealing with constantly changing business requirements.
Both trade unions and employers need to demonstrate that partnership benefits employees and makes business sense. That means taking the time to record progress and measure improvement in order to develop interest, passion and engagement at every level. |
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