Estates Excellence

Estates Excellence

Be part of the solution …

Estates Excellence

AIMs

• Working in partnership to provide free information, advice, training and support to SMEs within a specific location e.g. an industrial estate, to raise awareness and stimulate improvements to reduce accidents, ill health and other risks

Key Elements

• A face to face promotional visit to each business on the estate.

• A voluntary additional benchmarking visit to help identify gaps in health, safety, and fire prevention knowledge and practice

• Free bite-sized training

• Hazard Alley

• Occupational health tests

National Roll out

Aberdeen

Wrexham Q3-4

Deeside Q1

Manchester

Cambridgeshire

AshfordSouth Gloucestershire

Exeter

Some or our Southern Partners

Some of our Central Partners

Some of our Scotland & NE Partners

Marketing

Year 1 roll out - evaluation

• Further 1964 SMEs engaged

• Stage 2 participation rates up to 50%

• Further 1374 people trained

• 78% of respondents had made changes as a direct result of their engagement with Estates Excellence, a further 20% propose to make changes (ONS)

• 44% of businesses have done further reading on the HSE website (ONS)

• 28% had undertaken further health and safety training (ONS)

• 22% had passed on new knowledge from the intervention to other businesses or partners (ONS)

What is working well?

• Targeting

• Stakeholder partners

• National Project Board

• Engagement for all business types

• Flexible project tailored to local needs

• Training

• Feedback

Feedback from businesses

“ The way some of our employees look at Health & Safety has now changed for the better, they are more aware & it’s made my job a lot easier”

“ I found the courses extremely helpful and interesting especially with the quality of the people who carried out the delivery of the contents of the courses”

“ A great opportunity to have free training locally and to be able to ask the experts what to prioritise”

“ The free training inspired me to learn more about health and safety. I booked myself on to a four day IOSH course at the local college”

“ XXXXX from XXXXXX totally inspired me as to what they had done and sparked a real can do attitude into the whole proceedings”

“ I would certainly recommend other businesses to get involved”

Estates Excellence - Challenges

• Maximising uptake

• Dispelling the myths

Not enforcement led

Not selling anything

There is no catch

Estates Excellence

• Can you help?

– Marketing– Dispelling the myths– Supporting local projects, where

appropriate– Other?