For SAFETY'S

摘要

One safety improvement plan came from employees, rather than managers. GASP - the Go-Ahead Safety Pledge - has its roots in an annual employee competition to find the best ways to reduce risk, run by bus operator Go-Ahead London for the past 17 years. That wider scheme involves all 16 of its garages plus its joint training departments, explains engineering director, Richard Harrington. "We come up with a risk-related theme, then inform all of the participating departments what it is, then they have a month to come up with a team of up to six people to create a safety campaign based around it," he continues. At a gala dinner, first, second and third prizes are awarded. Many of the ideas generated by the competition are excellent, he says, and make a significant contribution to improving safety. Nor are they necessarily complicated or expensive to implement.