Would your MD use the site loo?

by John d'Arcy



Would your managing director be happy to use your site toilet facilities? Would you bring him to eat in the site canteen?

These are the kind of questions site managers should be asking themselves as the ultimate test of the acceptability of their worker welfare facilities, according to the Movement for Innovation's Respect for People working group.

The group has established a series of seven subgroups, including one dealing with the site working environment. All are preparing three or four key performance indicators (KPIs) of best practice.

The site environment team, headed by airports operator BAA's Mike Roberts, is developing a checklist inspection sheet of welfare facilities. This is set to cover the provision of a canteen, toilets, drying rooms, and a first aid room. A set of KPIs is to be established by marking the facilities on up to 40 different points.

A preliminary checklist proposes scoring the facilities on marks of one to five, ranging from unacceptable to excellent.

But it proposes the ultimate test as "would you bring your director to use this facility?"