(Left to right): Viv Russell, Chairman MPQC; Jon Prichard, Chief Executive MPA; Mike Phillips, Chief Executive BAA; Martin Riley, SSF Chairman; Ben Williams, Chairman QNJAC; and James Thorne, Chief Executive IQ/MPQC. Image: Mineral Products Association
Five key industrial organisations have come together as the Strategic Safety Forum in the United Kingdom to collaborate on improving safety and wellbeing within their industries.
The British Aggregates Association, Institute of Quarrying, Mineral Products Association, Mineral Products Qualifications Council, QNJAC have joined together as the Strategic Safety Forum (SSF).
The SSF was launched at Hillhead 2024 with a focus on ensuring its industries “the highest possible standards of performance in Health and Safety (H&S)”. To achieve this, the forum will facilitate collaboration between members on initiatives in six key areas:
Contact with moving machinery and isolation
Workplace transport and pedestrian interface
Work at height
Workplace exposure to respirable crystalline silica
Struck by moving or falling object
Road traffic accidents
The Forum will help these sectors share standards, skills, education resources, data, communication, contractor engagement, and other areas.
Martin Reilly has been appointed chairperson of the Strategic Safety Forum, which spans the aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, precast and masonry, dimension stone, lime, mortar and industrial sand industries
“I am delighted to see the collaborative work initiated by the previous Strategic Forum being taken forward with the support of the five key member bodies here,” he said.
“We all have a duty to ensure that our sector is safe, and that the wellbeing of our employees is delivered on a day-to-day basis.”
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