Benefits of Belonging to a Safety Group

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Benefits of Belonging to a Safety Group

• Stan Marshall
• SCOTCH WHISKY ASSOCIATION

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Scotlands Leading International Premium Spirits
Company
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The Group Today
Scotlands Leading InternationalPremium Spirits
Company

• Five core brands

The Famous Grouse
Cutty Sark
Macallan
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Facts Figures
Scotlands Leading InternationalPremium Spirits
Company

• Group Turnover 291 million
• Profit before Tax 75 million
• Up to 950 employees (over 85 are shareholders)
• Sales 85 million bottles 9 market share
• HQ at Great Western Road, Glasgow
• Sales Marketing Perth and London

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Stan MarshallDirector of Operational Excellence
Scotlands Leading InternationalPremium Spirits
Company

• Responsible for
• Group Improvement Facilitator (Lean
  Manufacturing)
• Group Compliance - Health Safety
• - Environment
• - Quality Management
• - HMRC
• - Security
• Engineering Support - Site Engineering
• - Capex
• - Electrical Engineering
• Representative on SWA Health Safety Committee

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Scotch Whisky

• One of the UKs top five export earners
• Accounts for more than 20 of UK food and drink
  exports
• Exported to around 200 different markets
  world-wide
• Represented at home and abroad by the Scotch
  Whisky Association (SWA)

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Brief History of the SWA

• Origins back to 1917
• Two Offices - Edinburgh London
• Formed to represent the collective interests of
  the Industry both at Home and Overseas
• 57 Members across the whole industry
• Membership represents over 97 of the Scotch
  Whisky Industry

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The SWA Health Safety Committee

• Membership includes
• Most Major Companies
• Bonded Warehouse Keepers Association
• Malt Distillers Association
• and crucially the HSE
• Currently five working groups
• COMAH
• Occupational Health
• Health Safety Training
• Fire Safety
• Transport Safety

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Mission

• To seek a common approach to industry wide issues
• To work in partnership with the HSE
• To freely share experience and knowledge
• To monitor new legislative proposals
• assess their impact and
• take action as appropriate
• Highlight health safety training issues
• To set targets and to monitor and report
  improvement KPIs

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Benefits

• Sharing of Information
• Different Approaches
• Enhanced Skills
• Good Practice
• Continuous Improvement
• Improved Relationships

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Initiatives

• Health Safety Bulletin
• Industry Wide Safety Statistics
• Setting industry targets for 2010
• 20 reduction in reportable accidents/days lost
• 25 reduction in manual handling injuries
• Industry Specific Workshops
• Launch and communicate Task Force outputs
• Gain feedback from broader Industry Group

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Recent Achievements

• Industry Guidance
• Fire Standards
• Storage and Handling of Potable Alcohol
• Interactive Training Packages
• Noise
• COMAH
• Confined Spaces
• Creation of safety standards for tankers and TLVs

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Main Current Issues

• COMAH legislation
• Fire safety legislation
• Manual handling
• Occupational health
• Human Factors
• Tanker Loading/transport safety

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Conclusions..

• Definite benefits in group involvement,
  particularly for smaller organisations with no
  professional Health Safety manager
• Common solution to problems of non-competitive
  nature results in consistent HSE approach
• Close partnership with HSE brings early
  notification of pending and proposed legislation
• Pro-active approach to HS management allows for
  more accurate strategic planning of capital
  expenditure
• In summary as a medium sized organisation, it
  helps us to operate safely and reduces our costs
  and it provides contracts for safety benchmarking