RMC publishes corporate responsibility document

RMC has published its first corporate responsibility document. The document describes an ongoing initiative on health and safety benchmarking led by RMC in collaboration with more than 20 other companies in the construction industry and beyond.
Richard Claydon, RMC's international and UK health and safety manager, said: "Two years ago we wanted to identify organisations that we could compare health and safety data with so we could learn from the better performers.
"We decided it was important that we swapped information with firms in other sectors, not just construction. We then cold-called companies to see if they would be interested in exchanging information with us. To date, we have 25 different firms that we swap data with on an annual basis. It is approaching a comfortable level, but we are still open to new firms joining."
The benchmarking initiative allows a comparison of rates for fatal incidents, major injuries and lost-time injuries.
"In identifying the better performers we can discuss with them some of the initiatives they've introduced. If they have worked well for them then we can work out how to adapt their initiatives to our needs," Claydon said.