Webinar: Staying on top of safety

FMJ has partnered with Watco to deliver a webinar on Thursday 30^th January where we will be grilling a panel of experts on how facilities managers can maintain a safe workplace while balancing shrinking budgets.

The webinar follows the Lifting the Lid report series that the industrial paint and repair products specialist has been developing over the past few years based on research conducted with FMs across the UK. The research explored core responsibilities of the FM role, including how they have evolved in the past decade, and the associated challenges to manage.

FMs highlighted several challenges around safety and maintenance, including:

• 36 per cent regularly go over-budget on urgent repair work to remove hazards
• 23 per cent said that a lack of general maintenance and repair often poses a safety risk
• 28 per cent disagree that employees are aware of potential hazards and know how to control/report risks

Threats to safety over the past year have resulted in 37 per cent of respondents being affected by slips, trips and falls and only 22 per cent disagreeing that the use of materials handling equipment had caused an accident or near miss.

Watco’s Sales Director and key contributor to the reports, Chris Budd, will be joined by a panel of experts including Phil Pinnington, Head of Audit & Consultancy at the British Safety Council, Nick Bray, Head of HSEQ, ISS UK and Ireland and Jenni Gallop, Director of Estates and Facilities at Provide Community.

With decades of combined experience in the introduction and management of health and safety in complex, demanding environments, the panel will provide the audience with recommendations broken down into steps that can be introduced immediately.

The panel will discuss the research data from FMs across the UK, the evidence they have seen of those experiences across industries and their first-hand recommendations on how to manage those challenges and ease the pressure.

Click here to sign up for the webinar.