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ROSPA AWARDS: PRIDE (SERP) LTD
PRIDE CARES ABOUT PEOPLE. FROM TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES LIKE FIVE-A-SIDE FOOTBALL TO FUNDRAISERS, THE COMPANY TAKES ITS SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY VERY SERIOUSLY.
partly due to investigations – why did something happen and what are you going to do to put it right.” CARING ABOUT PEOPLE Ultimately, these measures are in place because PriDE cares about its people. This is in evidence when considering PriDE’s work in the local community as well as its sustainability and environmental initiatives. From team building activities like fivea-side football to charity fundraisers, the company takes its social responsibility very seriously. Through a variety of events such as the Three Peaks Challenge, PriDE has raised around £20,000 for charities such as the Army Benevolent Fund and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Internally, staff benefit from Brainwaves, an initiative that reaches out to employees, giving them a voice within the company. Suggestions about improvement are rewarded, the best of which receive a cash prize. Training and development is also actively encouraged with PriDE maintaining a positive legacy from the education, training and qualifications it has achieved for site managers, supervisory and planning staff. PriDE has also reduced its carbon footprint and energy consumption in recent years. In 2007 it launched a campaign titled “Pride Goes Green” which introduced a number of initiatives such as energy surveys that helped customers to realise real money reductions and a contract wide sustainability incentive scheme. This was recognised in 2008 when PriDE won the British Institute of Facilities Management Award for Sustainability. Since then PriDE has helped many of its clients realise cost and environmental benefits such as RAF Northolt which saw carbon emissions reduced by fifteen per cent in 2011. This provided a cost saving of £200,000. Across the sites it works, PriDE is implementing a variety of measures such as the replacement of lights with LED and the implementation of a building management system. As health and safety manager Fred Cooper looks to the future he insists PriDE will never stand still when it comes to the safety of their workers.
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