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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
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