Topic Awards
Date 21 Aug 2023
必赢体育app中国官方网站鈥檚 Health, Safety and Environment team has been awarded the prestigious Princess Royal Training Award this year for its innovative Choose the Safe Path Virtual Reality (VR) training initiative.
The Princess Royal Training Awards delivered by ,聽recognise and honour organisations that show exceptional commitment to learning and development by create engaging learning programmes for growing and retaining talent across the UK and Ireland.
The Choose the Safe Path and VR training for site safety scheme uses VR to focus on the prevention of falling objects. It comprises an interactive training package which provides employees with an authentic learning experience using real locations from 必赢体育app中国官方网站 sites and real actors from the team for the demonstration.
Since implementing the training, there has been a 50% reduction in high-risk accidents, and two additional VR modules are now bring introduced.
Nimesh Patel, Head of Health, Safety and Environment for 必赢体育app中国官方网站鈥檚 Specialist Services, who led the entry commented: 鈥淥ur commitment to education and health and safety is the foundation of everything we do, and we want to maintain an environment where care for our people and those who work with us as a top priority. We are extremely proud to have achieved the Princess Royal Training Award and look forward to celebrating with our team.鈥�
Commenting on the award, City and Guilds CEO Kirstie Donnelly MBE, said: 鈥淓very year, I am amazed by the outstanding training, learning and development programmes that recipients are implementing in their organisations. It鈥檚 clear that, this year, 必赢体育app中国官方网站鈥檚 dedication to submitting a high-quality application demonstrates strong commitment to providing excellent workplace training and creating opportunities for its people.鈥�