RoSPA Gold Medal Award 2022

Otto Simon • April 5, 2022

Otto Simon has won the RoSPA Gold Medal Award!

After receiving the RoSPA Gold Award for demonstrating high health and safety standards for the last five years, this year Otto Simon has been awarded the RoSPA Gold Medal Award. This marks a significant achievement in Health and Safety performance and recognises our commitment to ensuring our personnel get home safety to their families at the end of every working day.


The RoSPA Awards scheme is the longest-running of its kind in the UK, and it receives entries from organisations across the globe, making it one of the most sought-after achievement awards for health and safety worldwide. Judges consider entrants’ overarching occupational health and safety management systems, including practices such as leadership and workforce involvement.


Julia Small, RoSPA’s Achievements Director, said: “This is a fantastic and well-deserved accomplishment. All our award entrants demonstrate their unwavering commitment and passion for keeping people safe at work. By receiving this recognition Otto Simon joins like-minded businesses and organisations worldwide, who represent the very best in their approach to Health and Safety. I would like to add my personal thanks for all the work that it has taken to secure this well-deserved award—congratulations to all those involved, who champion and drive-up Health and Safety standards every day. You are a fantastic example to others in your sector.”


Otto Simon is dedicated to embedding safety into our culture, and strives to work safely at all times. Along with our certification to ISO 45001, this award signifies our commitment to ensuring the continued health and safety of all our employees. We recently celebrated passing over 1 million manhours without a RIDDOR reportable accident and want to congratulate our site teams for all their hard work.


Chris Bridgland, Managing Director of Otto Simon, said: “This award demonstrates an excellent of consistency with our safety performance and we’re delighted that our hard work has been recognised by RoSPA. Otto Simon believes health and safety at work is a fundamental right and we never compromise on the safety of our workforce or the public. We will continue working hard to maintaining and improving our safety performance across all of our projects.”


Thank you to all of our personnel for their safe work throughout the year!


For more information about the RoSPA Awards visit www.rospa .com/awards

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