Romec poster ensures no slip-up with safety campaign

Romec has launched an internal poster campaign to help ensure it will be an accident free business by 2012.

Posters stating that “good housekeeping promotes a safe workplace” are now on display at two of Romec’s major clients, Royal Mail and the BBC, as well as throughout its own offices.

The placards came out of an internal competition launched during training days held in Leeds, Bristol and Gatwick for all of its 120 cleaning team managers (CTM).

Janet Wall, Romec Director of Cleaning & Office Management, said: “The training days focussed on how safety is Romec’s top priority; it’s at the heart of our brand and we have in place a way of working called Zero Harm to ensure we are an accident free business by 2012.

“Zero Harm is not just a strapline; it lies at the very heart of the way we do everything. Not just before or after a task, but in every aspect of how we work.

“Out of the training days came a competition to design a poster to further raise the profile of Zero Harm, and to ensure that we have a change in culture that filters from the top to the bottom of the business.”

The winning poster was actually designed jointly by 14-year-old schoolgirls Beth Adams and Paige Blench, who is the daughter of Stephen Blench, a CTM from Newcastle upon Tyne and whose remit covers the Edinburgh and Galashiels postcode areas for Royal Mail.

Janet Wall added: “We’re really pleased by the number, quality and creativity of designs we received, and as it turned out the winning entry was the only one created by children.

“It is now on display on notice boards and in locker rooms at all Royal Mail sites in addition to every BBC facility in the English regions as well as our own offices, and for their efforts the two girls received a £50 Debenhams voucher.”

Zero Harm is being run in partnership with Balfour Beatty Group, which owns 49 per cent of the company.