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HEALTH AND SAFETY: NORLAND MANAGED SERVICES
“It has been so successful that I’ve been invited to present at Scottish Power because they are running their own series of seminars for their own contractors who do work completely independent of Norland on exactly the same basis, managing risk and joint responsibility. We’ve provided them with our material; we’ve allowed them free access to modify it as they will and to them it was such an important message that they are delivering the same seminars and workshops to every one of their contractors. I think that’s a resounding, positive message about how what could have been a challenge has turned into a real significant game changer in the marketplace.” The environmental link is particularly relevant given that Steve’s remit includes environmental management and Norland’s principle of dealing with safety, its impact on the environment and qual-
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ity together. However, environmental and energy issues are treated separately because of the different implications and, where a potential energy impact is identified, it’s passed to the specialist team of energy engineers. They’re the responsibility of the Director of Sustainability, whose role is to deploy those engineers in a very specialist project capacity in order to understand how the customer may be able to benefit from various actions. These can include plant changes, energy interventions to put in variable speed drives and a number of energy initiatives that can be as simple as switching off equipment to help them to control energy usage. There’s a specialist team that is specifically trained to provide that advice and the fact that it’s separate and specialist, rather than being grouped into a general category, is deemed important.
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