The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), a safety charity, launched its awards programme 55 years ago.

The scheme looks at accident records and entrants’ overarching health and safety management systems, including important practices such as strong leadership and workforce involvement.

David Rawlins, RoSPA’s awards manager, said: “RoSPA firmly believes that organisations that have demonstrated their commitment to continuous improvement in accident and ill health prevention deserve recognition.

“Grontmij has shown that it is committed to striving for such continuous improvement and we are delighted to honour it through the presentation of an award.”

Andrew Carpenter, Grontmij’s director of health and safety, added: “Managing the safety and welfare of our team is a continuous process which we never take for granted.

“The regular recognition of our efforts, and how we have strived for best practice, from RoSPA each year is testimony to this.”

The majority of RoSPA’s awards are non-competitive, marking achievement at merit, bronze, silver and gold levels. Organisations maintaining high standards can win gold medals, president’s awards and orders of distinction.

Competitive awards are presented in more than 20 sectors, and specialist awards recognise excellence in specific areas, such as the management of occupational road risk.

The RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2011 are sponsored by NEBOSH (The National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health), the leading health and safety professional examining body.

Marcus Tatton Grontmij’s health and safety manager received the award on behalf of Grontmij at a special gala evening dinner in Birmingham, held alongside Safety & Health Expo 2011, Europe’s leading annual health and safety exhibition.

Ends

Grontmij is a leading sustainable design, engineering and management consultancy active in the growth markets of water, energy, transportation and sustainable planning and design. At the core of our business is the principle of sustainability by design that is a leading value proposition for our customers. Grontmij is the fourth largest engineering consultancy in Europe with almost 300 offices across the region and a further 50 offices globally. We have nearly 11,000 professionals around the world.

Our value chain of services stretches from major renewable water and energy infrastructure through designing efficient and environmentally-sensitive mobility and transportation networks to shaping our urban and green living spaces.

Whilst we are approaching our 100th anniversary, and benefit from the experience nearly a century provides, we prefer to look to the future to enhance the world we live in. By applying sustainability considerations to all our design, consultancy and management services right across the value chain, our highly-skilled, expert people are able to create lasting solutions that plan for, connect and respect the future.