Global RoSPA win for factory that took workplace safety into the community

L'Oréal Pune, won following a vote by award winners from the RoSPA 2024 awards scheme, beating fellow finalists Compass Group and engineering firm Jacobs Field Services.

RoSPA’s Fall Prevention Trophy seeks to draw on best practice and showcase innovation around fall prevention.

L'Oréal Pune’s three-step project involved a communication campaign that involved its workforce take RoSPA’s Fall Fighter course, the formation of an exemplary risk assessment strategy and the successful implementation of L’Oréal’s Safe@Work-Safe@Home programme.   

The programme, which applies lessons learned from occupational health and safety into homes and communities, was rolled out to more than 2,500 people in the wider area, including orphanages and assisted living centres. Although overshadowed by neighbouring Mumbai, the city in the west of India is the country’s ninth largest with a population of 3 million. 

Work included site surveys of old age homes and identification of STF (slips, trips and falls) improvement opportunities, with inspections by in-house experts. 

Head of EHS and Facilities at the factory Mayur Raut said: “We are incredibly proud to have won RoSPA’s Fall Prevention Trophy and commend the other shortlisted organisations.

“With fall prevention in particular, our initiatives have helped reach thousands of people and equip them with the necessary knowledge and awareness to live more safely – and we are grateful that our actions have been acknowledged internationally.”

Pic: (L-R) Faiza Patel, assistant manager EHS) and Mayur Raut (right), head of EHS and Facilities at L'Oréal – Pune.