Being the best for safety, doesn't happen by accident...
Posted by Julian Reeves, 28 January 2010 10:29:20
Some of you may have seen the recent newspaper reports regarding our Five Golden Safety Rules. These rules are designed to make our offices, depots and other workplaces safer for our staff and visitors. They include simple things like; always reverse park, so you have a better view when driving away and always hold handrails when walking up and down stairs. We recognise these as sensible actions to help encourage a safety culture at work, but the newspapers held them up as examples of "health and safety gone mad".
Safety is an integral part of Atlantic's culture and something we all take very seriously here. Our five safety Golden Rules are simple actions or ideas that everyone can adopt to make our working environment safer. If holding the handrail and reverse parking make sure that you and your colleagues go home to your families each and every day, then surely the real question would be "Why wouldn't you do it?".
It's easy to poke fun and appeal to popular misconceptions about safety regulations, as certain newspapers are so fond of doing. But surely the proof of the pudding is in the eating? Atlantic and SSE probably has the best safety record in the industry. That doesn't happen by accident. That's as a direct result of all of us looking out for one another, using common sense and sticking to just five basic safety rules.