News/Blog
ARMS Ltd celebrates more than a decade with GSK
ARMS Ltd is proud to celebrate as we enter our 11th year of working closely with GlaxoSmithKline at their Worthing site in the UK. The site manufacturing performance has gone from strength to strength and in parallel an ever improving, world class safety culture.
World class safety from B&V
Black&Veatch continue to develop and enhance their BOSS behaviour based safety programme with ARMS Ltd. Now in its 10th year from initial assessment and design the results are truly world class yet only to be expected from a committed leadership team who have worked tirelessly to drive safety excellence throughout their business activities.
Severfield partner with ARMS Ltd
ARMS Ltd are delighted to partner with Severfield plc on their path to world class safety. Severfield are the largest structural steel specialist in the UK. The company’s major works include The Shard, the Olympic Stadium, and the Tate Modern. Our initial activities will ensure that Severfield’s existing behavioural safety programme delivers the success that their investment in this area deserves and in parallel a behaviour based accident investigation approach will be trained out and developed across the business.
ESD best practice
ESD consulted with ARMS Ltd in May develop a best practice approach to influencing behaviour and EHS performance within their organisation. Determined to deliver EHS excellence for their own staff and their Scottish Water client over the duration of their long term contract.
ArjoWiggins Expansion
Excellent news and continued success for ArjoWiggins at Stoneywood Mill, Aberdeen. Increased demand has led to an increased workforce and ARMS Ltd are delighted to have been asked to work with the business yet again on their behaviour based safety programme. Our working relationship which began in 2005 goes from strength to strength!
DSSmith Safety Leadership
February is the second successive month of the DSSmith Safety Leadership roll-out. Senior management in the UK, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia, Holland and France are taking their first steps to take the DSSmith safety culture to the next level.
Buhler Site Installation Seminar 2016
Buhler invited ARMS Ltd to speak at their annual Site Installation Seminar in Uzwil, Switzerland. The theme was Buhler’s new approach to dynamic risk assessment. There were some very useful conversations during Q&A around the crucial safety role of supervisors and site managers when supervising an installation and when advising third parties under the control of the client.
GE – Shanghai to Sao Paulo
December closed out with a series of Safety Leadership sessions for GE in Shanghai, Suzhou, Bangkok and Sao Paulo. This completed the roll out for 2015 and we look forward to continuing this hugely successful programme early in Q1 2016.
Recommended Reading
We’re often asked what has influenced our unique approach to behaviour based safety. The answer to this lies in the following respected experts and particularly the following six books that they have authored.
Whether it is James Reason’s simple model for accident causation and the critical
role of behaviour or the insightful views of Malcolm Gladwell and the creation of trends and cultural shifts if you find yourself sat on a plane for hours, like we do, then we’d highly recommend filling the time by reading these books:
‘On Boarding’ Success in Amsterdam
Our recent ‘on-boarding’ day for the DS Smith global Paper division in Amsterdam was a great success. With a comprehensive strategy that has been developed with ARMS Ltd over the past 12 months and a committed senior management team it will be a very exciting 2016.
