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Estates Excellence Estates Excellence Be part of the solution … Estates Excellence AIMs • Working in partnership to provide free information, advice, training and support to SMEs within a specific location e.g. an industrial estate, to raise awareness and stimulate improvements to reduce accidents, ill health and other risks Key Elements • A face to face promotional visit to each business on the estate. • A voluntary additional benchmarking visit to help identify gaps in health, safety, and fire prevention knowledge and practice • • • Free bite-sized training Hazard Alley Occupational health tests National Roll out Aberdeen Manchester Deeside Q1 Cambridgeshire Wrexham Q3-4 South Gloucestershire Exeter Ashford Some or our Southern Partners Some of our Central Partners Some of our Scotland & NE Partners Marketing Year 1 roll out - evaluation • • • • • • • Further 1964 SMEs engaged Stage 2 participation rates up to 50% Further 1374 people trained 78% of respondents had made changes as a direct result of their engagement with Estates Excellence, a further 20% propose to make changes (ONS) 44% of businesses have done further reading on the HSE website (ONS) 28% had undertaken further health and safety training (ONS) 22% had passed on new knowledge from the intervention to other businesses or partners (ONS) What is working well? • • • • • • • Targeting Stakeholder partners National Project Board Engagement for all business types Flexible project tailored to local needs Training Feedback Feedback from businesses “ The way some of our employees look at Health & Safety has now changed for the better, they are more aware & it’s made my job a lot easier” “ I found the courses extremely helpful and interesting especially with the quality of the people who carried out the delivery of the contents of the courses” “ A great opportunity to have free training locally and to be able to ask the experts what to prioritise” “ The free training inspired me to learn more about health and safety. I booked myself on to a four day IOSH course at the local college” “ XXXXX from XXXXXX totally inspired me as to what they had done and sparked a real can do attitude into the whole proceedings” “ I would certainly recommend other businesses to get involved” Estates Excellence - Challenges • • Maximising uptake Dispelling the myths Not enforcement led Not selling anything There is no catch Estates Excellence • Can you help? – Marketing – Dispelling the myths – Supporting local projects, where appropriate – Other?