Fellside Combined Heat and Power Station.
The award of a prestigious safety accolade for the Fellside Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Station, adjacent to Sellafield in Cumbria, has capped another golden year for operations and maintenance specialist, px group.
The company, which runs potentially hazardous facilities across the UK – including power stations, gas processing plants and fuel storage depots – had already secured a host of awards and commendations from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) in July.
But the Gold Award for Fellside CHP – and another for the St Fergus Gas Processing Terminal, to the north of Aberdeen – means that px has achieved the top, gold standard at every one of its judged sites, for a second successive year. These final two awards will be collected at a ceremony in September.
The RoSPA Awards scheme, which receives entries from organisations around the world, recognises achievement in health and safety management systems, including practices such as leadership and workforce involvement.
Fellside CHP – which provides steam and power to the Sellafield site and electricity to the National Grid- has been operated by px since 2004. Initially working in partnership with a major engineering company, px became solely responsible for site operations, engineering and maintenance in 2010. This is the site’s seventh consecutive year of achieving the RoSPA gold safety standard.
Greg Mitchinson, Director of Safety Health and Environment (SHE), Technical and Risk Management with px group, said: “Our objective is zero harm to people, the environment and the plants we operate and our team puts an enormous effort into this, maintaining our reputation as a proactive business which continues to achieve the very highest standards. These efforts have delivered thousands of hours of incident free work which, in turn, has again been recognised by RoSPA.
“I’d like to thank all of the employees and contractors who work on our sites for continuing to follow our safe working practices, and for looking out for one another, in order to keep themselves and the areas in which they work, safe.”
Julia Small, RoSPA’s Head of Qualifications, Awards and Events, said: “The awards are the most highly-respected in the health and safety arena, with almost 2,000 entrants every year. They allow organisations to prove excellence in the workplace as well as demonstrating a commitment to the wellbeing of not only employees but all those who interact with it.”
Earlier this year, the px managed Teesside Gas Processing Plant was commended with an Order of Distinction after securing a Gold Award for the 22nd year in a row.
Five Gold Awards in five years for px group’s headquarters in Stockton and the gas fired Stallingborough Combined Heat and Power Plant, near Immingham, secured Gold Medal Achievement Awards for both sites.
Finally, Gold Awards were also allocated to the Port Talbot Biomass Power Plant and the Greenergy Fuel Terminal at Cardiff Dock.
The continued RoSPA awards success comes in the same year that px acquired the Saltend Chemicals Park, in Hull, from BP, at which it now provides a comprehensive energy, infrastructure, operations and maintenance service for the 370 acre site. It will be entered for a RoSPA award in 2019.
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