Lovell
Lovell Partnerships' excellent attitude towards its staff and subcontractors has been recognised with two category awards and this overall winners' medal. The construction industry's safety record may be under the spotlight but Lovell's health and safety initiatives have shone through. Training and education programmes and on-site worker consultation helped Lovell to clinch the award for best health and safety approach. Its open-book approach to contracting coupled with an intelligent incentive scheme helped it to win the partnering with subcontractors award. It was also shortlisted in the training and people development category. Last year Lovell had a turnover of £108m and an operating profit of £2.7m.Health and safety: Lovell has developed a substantial training programme designed to establish high safety standards in all the regions. Coupled with this is a "Slips, Trips and Falls" campaign for site personnel and contractors. To get the safety message across to everybody Lovell publishes an in-house magazine called Safetynet, which covers health, safety and environmental issues.
Partnering with subcontractors: All Lovell subcontractors have to go through a pre-qualification selection process before being added to the approved list, and are monitored during and after their work. Partnership workshops are common and Lovell offers a series of incentive and reward schemes in a bid to retain good subcontractors.
Employment and training: Lovell has initiated a professional and career development programme to enable individuals to realise their potential. A Management Trainee Academy and Craft Management Academy help to nurture the best talent, and a company mentoring scheme enables Lovell to reach out to local schoolchildren. Lovell also has a pilot project looking at the problem of placing trained tradeswomen on site.
Lovell Partnerships' excellent attitude towards its staff and subcontractors has been recognised with two category awards and this overall winners' medal. The construction industry's safety record may be under the spotlight but Lovell's health and safety initiatives have shone through. Training and education programmes and on-site worker consultation helped Lovell to clinch the award for best health and safety approach. Its open-book approach to contracting coupled with an intelligent incentive scheme helped it to win the partnering with subcontractors award. It was also shortlisted in the training and people development category. Last year Lovell had a turnover of £108m and an operating profit of £2.7m.
What makes Lovell a winner?:
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Building Homes
