This award is presented to a company that has a comprehensive or innovative approach to safety and training either through day-to-day operations, by providing dedicated programmes and continuous professional development, or launching a specific initiative designed to improve the training or safety in a particular area of operation. Sarens rose to the top spot to secure this year’s award.
A new category for the 2023 incarnation of the Heavy Lift Awards, the Safety and Training Award attracted a range of impressive entries but it was Sarens that was awarded the trophy for putting forward a multi-faceted and innovative safety and training programme that makes use of new technology to engage people across the organisation, supporting employees with the necessary tools and trainings to avoid or minimise any incidents.
Sarens’ dedication to safety includes in-depth training sessions, the design and implementation of the ’prevention at Sarens’ tool and the roll out of the Sarens Incident Cause Analysis training course, among other initiatives. Since 2017, Sarens has had its own in-house training centre and after becoming a European Crane Operator Licence (ECOL) centre, revamped the facility to increase capacity for both classroom and practical training.
The finalists included Blue Water Shipping’s ‘Dare to Care’ initiative; Liebherr-Werk Ehingen, whose training concepts provide a variety of group-specific courses; Logistec Stevedoring, which delivers critical training to more than 2,000 colleagues in three languages; and Osprey Group, which launched the ‘Project Managing for Zero Harm’ safety training at Hinkley Point C.
