RoSPA Awards : 2002 Roll of Honour : Citations
The Sir George Earle Trophy
Atomic Weapons Establishment
After an extremely challenging round of judging by RoSPA’s Awards Panel, the Atomic Weapons Establishment was chosen as this year’s Sir George Earle Trophy winners in the light of its exceptionally comprehensive approach to health and safety management.
The Panel was particularly impressed by the high level of commitment of AWE’s senior managers to the achievement of ever higher levels of health and safety performance, their approach to securing full and effective involvement of all staff and their representatives in health and safety decision making.
Other features of AWE’s approach which influenced the Panel in its decision included: its comprehensive approach to target setting; its approach to training and to occupational health issues; its management of contractors; its commitment to learning from accidents and incidents; and the wider role which it plays in helping to strengthen safety and environmental initiatives in the local community.
RoSPA Distinguished Service Award
Paul Reeve
Since the early eighties Paul Reeve has made a sustained contribution to developing the input of British industry to the improvement of health and safety at work. Paul is an environmental science graduate, a Chartered Chemist and a Fellow of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.
He began his career in health and safety when he joined the staff of ‘Safety Practitioner’ as an editor in 1983. In 1990 he joined the Engineering Employers’ Federation as their head of safety. He played a major role in many EEF initiatives, for example, to develop guidance and the Federation’s health and safety services, focusing particularly on the role of health and safety in improving competitiveness and its integration with environmental management. Paul has also made a major input to the development of health and safety policy and regulation, both in the UK and in Europe.
Other initiatives have included his role as chair of the IOSH Risk Management Strategy working party and the development of authoritative guidance on health and safety management systems.
Since leaving the EEF in 2001, Paul has continued to play an influential health and safety role in the Chemical and now the Electrical Contracting sectors.
(May 2002)
Doug Russell
For over twenty years Doug Russell has played an influential role in raising health and safety standards for workers, particularly in the retail sector.
He began his involvement in health and safety in 1974 when he helped advise workers about chemical hazards. After a period with the Workers’ Educational Association, he joined the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers in 1986 as their National Health and Safety Officer, providing information and advice to its members.
In addition to developing USDAW’s advisory and support services he has served on numerous working parties connected with the retail, chemical and food sectors - as well as on several Health and Safety Commission Advisory Committees.
Doug has also been a long serving and consistent member of the TUC Health and Safety Specialists Group and he has had a significant influence at international level, representing both his union and the TUC in various committees and working groups at European level. He is an editorial board member of Occupational Health Review and is on the board of Greater Manchester Hazards Centre.
(May 2002)
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