Best Practice

The Best Practice entries are a compilation of solutions that companies have applied to minimise and, where possible, eliminate health and safety risks arising from their daily operations. The ideas and innovative approaches are often very simple and could readily be applied to a range of common industry problems. The entries have been selected from the Mineral Products Association's annual Health and Safety Best Practice Awards.

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10 Best Practice Article(s) returned

TitleVideoActivityType of LocationYearPrize 
AG Activ8 Health and Wellbeing programme. WINNER - Safer through improvements in health and wellbeing - AG Paving + Building Products Video Attached Improving health and wellbeingCompany-wide2024 Y
Automated concrete mixer cleaning innovation - improving operator safety and well-being. Topic 2 Video Attached Maintenance & HousekeepingReadymix or mortar plant2024 N
Device designed to hold open the chutes on the rear door of asphalt tipper lorries. - Topic 6 Video Attached Transport & Logistics / DeliveryAsphalt/Coating plant2024 N
Implementation of new safety measures and videos for safe operating procedures for the processing of natural stone..WINNER of Safer Production Video Attached Production and ProcessingDimension Stone plant2024 Y
Improved washer barrel access. Topic 2 Video Attached Maintenance & HousekeepingQuarry2024 N
Improving employee & contractor safety with training for current and new plant installations. Topic 2 Video Attached Maintenance & HousekeepingConcrete products plant2024 N
Isolation videos and SSOW - WINNER Maintenance and Housekeeping Video Attached Maintenance & HousekeepingReadymix or mortar plant2024 Y
Keeping pedestrians safely segregated from plant with AI human form recognition Video Attached Pedestrian and transport safety on-siteReadymix or mortar plant2024 N
Lift Truck - Stop & Think Dynamic Risk Assessments reduce fork lift truck incidents - Topic 4 Video Attached Pedestrian and transport safety on-siteConcrete products plant2024 N
Lock – Tag – Live - Improving safety in moving machinery - WINNER of 'The Fatal 6 Award' Video Attached Guarding and isolationConcrete products plant2024 Y
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