Health and safety

Being a responsible business means looking after our people and those around us. We are committed to developing a strong safety culture to ensure everyone who works for us, and those affected by what we do, go home safe and well.

How we ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and those around us

Our workforce undertake a diverse range of jobs from those lone workers driving from job to job to fix lights and clean spillages, to our construction team on site at a new development, and our people who work in offices or more likely, from home, these days.

With such a diverse group of people to look after, we have created a Health and Safety Management System made up of guidance, risk assessments, training, alerts, forums and champions to ensure the health and safety of our people and those who our work impacts.

NHS Property Services is presented with an International Safety Award

NHS Property Services has won an International Safety Award with a Merit from the British Safety Council in recognition of its commitment to keeping its workers and workplaces healthy and safe during the 2020 calendar year.  Now in their 63rd year, the International Safety Awards recognise and celebrate organisations from around the world which have demonstrated to the satisfaction of the scheme’s independent judges their commitment to preventing workplace injuries and work-related ill health.

Read the article