Best Practice

The Best Practice entries are a compilation of solutions that companies have applied to minimise and, where possible, eliminate health and safety risks arising from their daily operations. The ideas and innovative approaches are often very simple and could readily be applied to a range of common industry problems. The entries have been selected from the Mineral Products Association's annual Health and Safety Best Practice Awards.

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10 Best Practice Article(s) returned

TitleVideoActivityType of LocationYearPrize 
Topic 1 - Fatal 3 - Eliminating work at height when refuelling excavators - WINNER 'The Fatal 6 Award' Video Attached Mobile plant operation and maintenanceQuarry2026 Y
Topic 1 - Isolation try out point next to mixer point - WINNER 'The Fatal 6 Award' Video Attached Guarding and isolationReadymix or mortar plant2026 Y
Topic 1. Safer production - Tarmac - Safe Hands / Eyes Campaign Video Attached Behavioural Safety managementCement plant2026 Y
Topic 2 - Closing the welding and hot works competency gap through NOS-Based safety standards Video Attached Hot workingConcrete products plant2026 N
Topic 2 - Fatal 3 - Drop down discharge chute Video Attached Maintenance & HousekeepingReadymix or mortar plant2026 N
Topic 2 - Fatal 3 - Mobile fall prevention device (MOFAP) Video Attached Mobile plant operation and maintenanceMobile Plant2026 N
Topic 2 -Slips, Trips and Falls: A four-week campaign driving safer habits across Breedon sites Video Attached Maintenance & HousekeepingCompany-wide2026 Y
Topic 3 - Fatal 2 - Driver inductions reinvented: Site guides with vehicle and drone perspectives Video Attached Traffic managementCompany-wide2026 Y
Topic 3 - Fatal 2 - Flashing flag poles on vehicles Video Attached Pedestrian and transport safety on-site 2026 N
Topic 3 - Fatal 2 - Segregation of tipping lorries and pedestrians Video Attached Pedestrian and transport safety on-siteConcrete products plant2026 N
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