How a high-risk company achieved 1,000 days without an accident
Winder Power, a UK company that manufactures transformers and generators, recently reached a milestone by recording 1,000 days without a reportable accident or lost-time incident. The Leeds-based firm has not had a reportable incident resulting in lost work time for any of the technicians, engineers or other personnel working in the facility since 2012. This record extends to all of Winder’s projects across the UK and worldwide, as well as within its own state-of-the-art factory in Leeds.
The company attributes an improvement in its safety culture by a focus on key causes of accidents as well as staff attitudes to safety and through setting targets both for employees and sub-contractors. These efforts have communicated that Winder Power places safety at the forefront of everything they do and have focused individual ownership of safety in daily work practices – ensuring a positive approach by staff and a lack of complacency.