Capita's occupational health service has underlined its own
corporate health and safety credentials by securing two top
awards.
Capita has been presented with a Royal Society for the
Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Gold Award after achieving "a very
high level of performance" in its approach to preventing accidents
and ill health among its workforce.
The company has also received a Silver Award from the Scottish
Centre for Healthy Working Lives, recognising its commitment and
care to the health and wellbeing of its staff.
Capita personnel attended RoSPA's Scottish awards ceremony in
Glasgow to accept the gold honour - the highest level of
recognition from the organisation.
Gold Award winners have, according to RoSPA, demonstrated
"well developed occupational health and safety management
systems and culture, outstanding control of risk and very low
levels of error, harm and loss".
It marked the culmination of a two-year process involving a
detailed RoSPA audit of Capita's health and safety management
system, and work to refine and update the system to ensure it
remained fully in line with industry guidelines and standards. That
was followed by an in-depth award submission to the society.
Meanwhile, the Healthy Working Lives award allows the business
to take the next step and go for gold.
"Both awards sum up the commitment by Capita to ensure best
practice when it comes to its employees," says Aberdeen-based
Capita HSE manager Loes Raemakers, who led the award processes.
"To receive the Gold Award is testimony to a company-wide
effort: our health and safety team enjoyed the support and
commitment of our senior management team from the outset, while the
wider workforce has really engaged with the process.
"It shows that all our services to clients are underpinned by
in-house practices and procedures of the highest quality and
standard.
"The Silver Award was achieved implementing drug and alcohol
policies to meet the criteria set in the awards scheme. Among many
other things, we also introduced free fruit to staff, held lunch
and learn sessions on a range of topics from cancer to heart
disease, and took part in physical activities such as the Global
Corporate Challenge, an online workplace walking event."
Capita, with more than 30 years' experience in the provision of
professional wellbeing and health services, delivers a range of
solutions and innovations to the energy sector.
As well as training, other services include the provision of
medics, offshore medical services and expert advice, health
surveillance, absence management, international repatriation
solutions, wellbeing strategy and employee assistance.