November 2009

Safeguard clients British Sugar win prestigious DuPont Safety Award

Congratulations to British Sugar, the UK’s leading supplier of sugar, for receiving the DuPont Safety Award 2009 in the Innovative Approach category! The DuPont Safety Awards were launched in 2002 with the purpose of stimulating individual or collective initiatives for safety enhancement and accident prevention. Recipients of this Award are acknowledged for their commitment to safety and operational discipline as a business necessity as much as a moral obligation.

British Sugar UK received the Award for its company-wide personal safety initiative called ‘Safety Performance Discussions’. This initiative has contributed to demonstrable reduction in injury rates of over 70% during the last six years at British Sugar. Company Safety Manager, Ash Solanki, commented: “This Award I believe provides external recognition from the safest company in the world that every individual working or has worked at British Sugar UK (employee, contractor, consultant, agency and visitor) over the past 6 years has made a significant and conscious contribution to improve safety.”