Amey Consulting’s ThinkSafe wins Ferrovial Zuritanken Award

04 Mar 2021

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Amey Consulting’s ThinkSafe project has won a prestigiousZuritankenaward from Amey’s parent company Ferrovial.Zuritanken is an idea generation programmeopen to allFerrovialemployeesworldwide and aimsto promoteaculture of innovationto solve challenges faced by the business. Atthe 5th版的计划held virtuallyinFebruary, ThinkSafe came out on topagainst a shortlist ofsixfrom a total of 364globalentries.

Ledby Rob Doyle, HSEQ Director, Amey Consulting and Raj Kandola,Human Factors Business Partner, Amey Consulting,ThinkSafe is a series of toolkits, which provide high quality data, beyond traditional safety metricstoexamine the psychological and human factor variables associated with safety; such as workload, job pressure and safety climate.

它利用a ‘bottom-up’ approach to understand the risk of everyday activities, putting people at the heart of improvements through consultation and involvement.The project came out of a need to address theshortcomingsof usingtraditional methods such asroot cause analysis, audits and accident data to understand risk and reduce accidents. Although useful, these approaches are considered somewhat reactive, therefore potentially posing a safety risk.

ThinkSafe hascontinually helped provide insight into other contributory factors of safetyand wellbeingandhas been rolled out to over5,000employees acrossAmey.The findings have been used to develop specific action plans to address areas of weakness identified by the results.

The ThinkSafemethodologyhasalso been utilisedtotackleotherbusiness needs and challenges.Most recently,新型冠状病毒肺炎presented a number of wellbeing challenges including the effects of long-term teleworking and in 2020,the ThinkSafe framework was used to create a bespoke survey (called Future Office)which wascompleted by over 1,500 employees in AmeyConsulting. The results gathered through this survey have helped to inform a range of follow up initiatives.

Alex Gilbert, ManagingDirectorforAmey Consulting said:“This is a fantastic achievement for Amey Consulting.Combiningour expertise in datawith our strong history in operationalhealth and safety, ThinkSafe was developed tobetter understand and address thehuman factors that impact safety and wellbeing, something thathas become even more significant in the last 12 months.

“The Zuritanken award is testament to the culture of innovation at Amey Consulting, giving our people the freedom to develop their ideas to solve real world problems.”

This is not the first accolade for the project.In 2020, ThinkSafe won RoSPA’s ‘Initiative of the Year’ Award.As part of winning Zuritanken,Amey Consulting will now work with Ferrovial on expanding ThinkSafe globally.

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