Cementing Good Practice Seminar
The UK cement industry health and safety seminar, Cementing Good
Practice: Cement Vision and Targets, took place on 22 November 2005
in Worcester.
Chief executives of the four British cement manufacturers -
Castle Cement, CEMEX UK Operations, Lafarge UK and Tarmac Buxton
Lime and Cement signed up to the Cementing Good Practice initiative
in 2003 and fully supported the industry's second health and safety
seminar.
Various initiatives were launched during 2005, and health and
safety managers shared key recommendations and how guidance was
implemented at their respective works. These initiatives
include:
- Guidance to prevent slips, trips and falls
- Guidance to prevent hot meal burns
- Customer Site Safety: Bagged delivery
- Customer Site Safety: Bulk delivery
- Reversing aids
Other keynote speakers included John Spanswick, Managing
Director of Bovis Lend Lease Europe, on Making it
Happen/Zero Accidents, while Clive Brookes from the HSE's
Engineering Section discussed Robust Safety
Systems.