Beyond Housing

Beyond Housing, based in Scarborough and Redcar, has been awarded a prestigious RoSPA Award, reflecting its commitment to health and safety excellence.

Beyond Housing won a President’s Award, in recognition of its long-standing dedication to ensuring the safety of its colleagues and customers.

This accolade is given only to organisations that have achieved RoSPA’s Gold Medal Health and Safety Award for at least ten years in succession.

The RoSPA Health and Safety Awards is the largest occupational health and safety awards programme in the UK. Now into its 67th year, the awards have almost 2,000 entries each year, covering nearly 50 countries and a reach of over seven million employees. The programme recognises organisations’ commitment to continuous improvement in the prevention of accidents and ill health at work, looking at entrants’ health and safety management systems, including practices such as leadership and workforce involvement.

While most awards are non-competitive, competitive awards are presented in 20 industry sectors and for specialist areas of health and safety management.

Paul Smith, Health & Safety Manager at Beyond Housing, said: “To consistently meet RoSpA’s Gold Award standard over the past ten years is an outstanding achievement. We are very proud to receive the President’s Award as a further reflection of the hard work and determination that our colleagues continue to put into keeping themselves and others safe.”

Julia Small, RoSPA’s Achievements Director, said:

“Accidents at work and work-related ill health don’t just have huge financial implications or cause major disruption – they significantly impact an individual’s quality of life. That’s why good safety performance deserves to be recognised and rewarded.

“We are thrilled that Beyond Housing has won a RoSPA Award and would like to congratulate them on showing an unwavering commitment to keeping their employees, clients and customers safe from accidental harm and injury.”

Sponsored by Croner-i, the RoSPA Awards scheme is the longest-running of its kind in the UK, and receives entries from organisations across the globe, making it one of the most sought-after achievement awards for the health and safety industry.

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Notes to editors:

• About Beyond Housing

Beyond Housing is one of the largest registered housing providers in the North East and North Yorkshire. With its regional offices in Redcar and Scarborough, the organisation is responsible for the letting, management and maintenance of over 15,000 homes across the North East and North Yorkshire.

Beyond Housing is committed to going beyond the bricks and mortar to help its communities and region thrive. By providing quality homes people want to live in alongside valuable additional services delivered by passionate people who want to help, Beyond Housing contributes to the prosperity, wider regeneration and sustainability of its communities, creating neighbourhoods that will flourish well into the future.

• About the RoSPA Awards

The RoSPA Awards is one of the most prestigious and recognised health and safety schemes in the world with almost 2,000 entries every year from more than 50 countries, with a total reach of over seven million employees. Running for nearly 70 years, it recognises and rewards organisations, individuals and teams that go above and beyond to achieve health and safety excellence.

• About the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
  RoSPA is a not-for-profit organisation that has worked for more than 100 years to help people recognise and reduce their risk of accidents, at home, on the road, at work and at leisure. Our goal is to enable everyone to live their lives to the full, safely. For further information on RoSPA and its history, please see here. 

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