Health and Safety Team - away day meeting

On Friday 29th June, we had an away-day for the Health and Safety Team. I'm pleased to report that this was an extremely interesting, productive, thought promoting  and useful day. 


We welcomed some new members to the Team and then went on to discuss the progress that we have made since December 2011, when we half our last meeting of this type. In December, we set a target for the business of getting 25 new (retained) clients in 2012. At the meeting, I was able to report back that we had achieved 19 out of 25 new clients with six months left to go! 


We reviewed some of the new contracts and the routes by which we had secured them. We discussed how different members of the team had been involved with these clients and we reviewed some of our other, existing clients. Some are small, local (Loughborough and Leicestershire) based companies, while others are well known national organisations.


I led a discussion on the power of social media marketing in getting our message across to potential new clients.  We then focussed some of the discussion onto understanding what "our message" is - more on that subject in future blog items.  It was very reassuring to get agreement (rather than merely consensus) on what our message is. We will be able to promote this message with vigour and from a concerted front.for all of our consultants rather than focussing too narrowly. We have some great ideas on where to look next!


We moved the discussion on to consider the sectors that we would be targeting next as well as the types of work that we will be promoting most strongly. Our approach will be aimed a providing work 


We discussed chemical safety, COSHH, Legionella and other related issues as well as fire safety, residential flats, Facilities Management safety, Health and Safety Training Courses, etc.


Peter (aka Hagrid) gave an excellent (albeit shortened) presentation on Emergency Aid training. Pleasingly, everyone joined in and added to this from their own experiences. 


Lunch was delivered to the venue on time and allowed for a fair amount of relaxed interaction between the consultants, many of whom rarely meet - due to geographical issues.