RoSPA Gold Award for Health and Safety achievements from Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and “Education and Development Initiative of the Year” at the Innovation in Facility Management (FM) Awards 2022.
The past couple of month have been extremely rewarding and Acciona Facility Services Middle East was honored with two internationally recognized awards.
Acciona has a presence in more than 40 countries and sales of €8,104 billion in 2021, the company is committed to contributing to the economic and social development of the communities in which it operates. Acciona Facility Services Middle East operates under the sustainability principles and compliance to health and safety. Our major client is Hamad Medical Corporation where over 2500 personnel is employed, represented by more than 20 nationalities. Other over 120 projects include sectors such as hospitality, education, aviation, airport, malls, factories, embassies, corporate offices. Considering highly demanding nature of the job specifically in healthcare sector and our involvement in COVID facilities, we have developed a robust approach to Learning & Development and Health & Safety.
Education and Development Initiative of the year
Acciona Facility Services Middle East won RoSPA Gold Health and Safety Award for demonstrating high health and safety standards, for working hard to ensure its staff and contractors get home safely to their families at the end of every working day.
Organizations receiving a RoSPA Award are recognized as being world-leaders in health and safety practice. Luis Carlos Barroso, Middle East Director for the Facility Management business, said: “We are delighted to receive this prestigious award specially from such a world-renowned organization such as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Acciona participated for the first time in RoSPA Award and won the Gold category in the first attempt. Having workplace safety is a culture hence this award deserves recognition as it authenticates our commitment to provide highest standards of health and safety in the workplace. We are extremely proud to have been recognized in this way.”
“This award is an indication that our Health & Safety department is moving in the right direction. It is a joined achievement by all staff who followed safety protocols throughout the year, and the team who worked extensively to ensure the safety systems are in place.” – said Irshad Ahmed Khan, QHSE Manager.
Education and Development Initiative of the Year
Acciona Facility Services Middle East won “Education and Development Initiative of the Year” at the Innovation in Facility Management (FM) Awards 2022. The award was in recognition for ACCIONA’s Supervisory Talents Excellence Program (A STEP), developed in-house, which focuses on identifying talented internal candidates for promotion and taking them through a development journey to take on supervisory roles upon successful completion of the program. The initiative was introduced at ACCIONA’s Facility Management locations in the Middle East in response to the highly demanding nature of jobs in the healthcare sector, particularly during the global pandemic.
Luis Carlos Barroso, Middle East Director for the Facility Management business, said identifying future supervisors was important because “they influence the work of a huge number of people and they are, in fact, the link between management, front-line staff and the client.” ACCIONA’s STEP program, which trains future supervisors, embodied the best practices in facility management and helped to increase the efficiency of operations, he added.
“Our structured approach to the development of personnel starts from new joiners’ level up to the leadership suite. We guarantee learning and development for all our professionals at all levels. Moreover, we focus on internal talent development.
For ACCIONA’s Supervisory Talents Excellence Program (A STEP) in the classroom we use experiential learning techniques and task-based instruction, along with other modern effective techniques. The use of experiential learning creates the “aha” moments allowing participants to be part of experiments which prove desired behaviors, and the impact of those behaviors at work. The learning doesn’t finish with classroom attendance, it is taken immediately to the workplace, digested and analyzed within informal knowledge checks discussion with the managers, then participants come back to class to learn more competencies which are in turn interlinked with each other. One block is being gradually built on top of the other until we create a strong standing structural knowledge base of supervisory competencies.” – said Elmira Abdullina, Learning & Development Manager.
Acciona Facility Services Middle East is determined to achieve operational excellence, development of personal ownership in safety culture, and the provision of sustainable solutions to all our clients.
