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ARMS Ltd are delighted to partner with Severfield plc on their path to world class safety. Severfield are the largest structural steel specialist in the UK. The company’s major works include The Shard, the Olympic Stadium, and the Tate Modern. Our initial activities will ensure that Severfield’s existing behavioural safety programme delivers the success that their investment in this area deserves and in parallel a behaviour based accident investigation approach will be trained out and developed across the business.

ESD consulted with ARMS Ltd in May develop a best practice approach to influencing behaviour and EHS performance within their organisation. Determined to deliver EHS excellence for their own staff and their Scottish Water client over the duration of their long term contract.

February is the second successive month of the DSSmith Safety Leadership roll-out. Senior management in the UK, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia, Holland and France are taking their first steps to take the DSSmith safety culture to the next level.

Buhler invited ARMS Ltd to speak at their annual Site Installation Seminar in Uzwil, Switzerland. The theme was Buhler’s new approach to dynamic risk assessment. There were some very useful conversations during Q&A around the crucial safety role of supervisors and site managers when supervising an installation and when advising third parties under the control of the client.

December closed out with a series of Safety Leadership sessions for GE in Shanghai, Suzhou, Bangkok and Sao Paulo. This completed the roll out for 2015 and we look forward to continuing this hugely successful programme early in Q1 2016.

We’re often asked what has influenced our unique approach to behaviour based safety. The answer to this lies in the following respected experts and particularly the following six books that they have authored.

Whether it is James Reason’s simple model for accident causation and the critical
role of behaviour or the insightful views of Malcolm Gladwell and the creation of trends and cultural shifts if you find yourself sat on a plane for hours, like we do, then we’d highly recommend filling the time by reading these books:

Copenhagen was the location for this year’s Carlsberg Global EHS Conference with EHS managers from around the world taking part in a busy and highly productive 3 day event to share best practice and celebrate significant improvements in EHS performance over the last 12 months.

ARMS Ltd have been working closely with Carlsberg since January 2014 to help shape and implement their behaviour based safety approach to global safety culture. This began with a highly successful leadership workshop with the Carlsberg Supply Chain executive group in Switzerland and is now part of a global cascade over the next two years.

We were invited to this years conference to engage with the entire global EHS management team and ensure a common understanding of risk taking behaviours and associated change strategies for the Group being led by Carlsberg senior management. A key output was the team’s creation of a set of leadership behaviours including a safety coaching approach that will help take their own crucial influence throughout the business in support of the Carlsberg management.