Europe’s leading marina group has cut employee turnover from around 30 percent to 18 percent, improved motivation and morale, and created an environment that embraces new ideas and products, through training that won a south‐east England award in the latest National Training Awards.

Purpose – Highlights the improvement in the safety record of Birse Civils (NW) that resulted, at least in part, from a training program that won a regional training award in the most recent UK National Training Awards. Design/methodology/approach – Gives the inside story of what gave rise to...

Purpose – Describes the health and safety training that has won UK engineering consultancy Black & Veatch an award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Design/methodology/approach – Outlines how training needs are identified, the types of training provided and the groups...

Purpose – Explains that the course, developed using BrightWave's online development tool, WavePool, initially targeted some 500 new employees in the customer sales and service division, but senior management has since extended the project to cover the rest of the division's 4,700 employees....

Purpose – Describes how two UK organizations – Dollond & Aitchison (D&A) opticians and Winfield Transport – significantly reduced employee turnover through training programs that won national training awards. Design/methodology/approach – Contains information from D&A's head of training...

Purpose – This article demonstrates how UK construction company Frank Haslam Milan (FHm) has hit its target of zero reportable accidents through its award‐winning training and awareness program, which involves its employees and around 2,000 people living in the homes it builds and...

Purpose – Describes a wellness programme among 260 employees at Cadbury Trebor Bassett who were charged with implementing a global information‐technology project to a strict deadline. Design/methodology/approach – Provides the viewpoints of the company, the expert charged with introducing...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine health and safety in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses violence in the workplace. Findings – The Home Office and Health and Safety Executive produced a joint report which showed that by far the highest “at risk” group...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine health and safety of employees on the road. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the safety of employees on the road. Findings – Employees have a duty to drive safely but employers also have clear duties – not only to ensure that they do...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe a nurse‐led absence‐management program from Active Health Partners that has been used to monitor and reduce absence at First London and Berkshire, part of First Group, the international transport company. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...