As part of the implementation of our new We Make It Safe Principles, three Senior Leadership Team Workshops’ were held in March.

Our Make It Safe Vision was originally launched across the Logson Group in September 2018 to improve our health and safety performance and to make our sites a safer place for our people to work. The new principles aim to help us deliver our next level of improvement by developing a culture where everyone: 1) Plays an active and engaged part in Making It Safe, 2) Challenges each other to continually improve and 3) Treats each other fairly and with respect.

The workshops’ objective was to engage senior leaders across the Logson group, including Boxes and Packaging, Board24, Jardin, Boxshop and The Cardboard Company.

The new principles were discussed, and our senior leaders considered possible ways to put the principles into action and to be implemented at each site. The intended outcomes for the day were to ensure everyone understood and felt engaged with the principles and that everyone left with a plan for implementing them.

Alex Morris, Managing Director of Cases24 commented “The recent We Make it Safe implementation workshops have proven a great success and a welcome opportunity to discuss recent successes and opportunities for further progress. We achieve that through maintaining a continual focus on cultural developments for the benefit of Making It Safe.”

Eric Marshall, Operations Manager of Preston commented, “Following the workshop, I am particularly keen to change our approach to safety inspections, I want to shift the focus from 90% observations to 90% communications by asking our people for their opinions and improvement ideas. The main learning, in my opinion, was to engage with our people on the “shop floor” to a much greater degree. We want to turn things around from a top down to a bottom-up approach to health & safety and then extend this to every aspect of the day to day running of our operations.”

Mark Ryan, Head of HS&E for the Logson Group commented “There was a high level of energy at all three of our workshops and all of our senior leaders engaged well with our new principles. I believe this was in a large part down to the passion they have making our We Make It Safe Principles a success!”

In the coming months and years, we look forward to achieving even more together as We Make It Safe becomes an intrinsic part of everyone’s work.