ABERDEEN energy service company RBG celebrated health and safety excellence among its workforce at an awards ceremony in the city last night.
The firm’s first annual Reach safety awards at Aberdeen Art Gallery attracted industry leaders and guests from across the north-east.
Held on World Day for Safety and Health at Work, an annual event to promote the prevention of occupational accidents, RBG’s ceremony recognised employees who more than met the minimum safety requirements of the firm’s Reach programme last year. Guest speaker for the evening was behavioural safety expert Jason Anker, who was left paralysed from the waist down by an accident on a construction site in 1993.
The Reach programme was launched in December 2009 with the aim of creating a stronger, safer, culture throughout RBG by encouraging all employees to reach higher safety standards.
Mike Mann, the group’s health, safety, environment and quality director, said: “RBG places safety, unequivocally, as our top priority and our Reach awards are a great way to celebrate a year of excellent safety performance.
“Our employees can be proud of what they have achieved and I am confident they can build on this going forward.”
More than 110 nominations were received from line managers and supervisors across RBG global operations employing more than 4,500 people.
RBG’s Triton platform team, contracted by Wood Group for asset operator Hess, won the best safety performance award. The honour for safety leadership was won by Bill Abbott, RBG’s group scaffold manager, while rope access technician Ross Webster was rewarded for his consistently high quality of work with the most promising individual award.
Scaffolder Darren Hall won an honour for incident prevention and Dmitriy Zoltov took home the best safety representative award.
RBG chief executive Dave Workman said: “Safety is at the heart of our operations and Reach has helped engrain safe working practices in everything we do.”