• Robert Bosch Limited selected from 10,000 organisations for award
• Staff take a more active role in health and safety
• Greater participation by employees in training programmes

For the third consecutive year, Robert Bosch Limited has won the prestigious International Safety Award from the British Safety Council, one of the world’s leading training and advisory bodies. 

Robert Bosch Limited was one of the organisations selected from 10,000 member companies who have demonstrated significant advances, and a continued committment to the improvement in health and safety and accident reduction within their organisation during the last twelve months.

During this time, the 14-acre headquarter site at Denham, Buckinghamshire, which employs around 550 people in the company’s offices, warehousing and workshop facilities, has seen a greater number of staff taking a more active role in reporting health and safety matters and an increase in the number of volunteers requesting to be participate in training programmes.

Delighted at receiving the award, George Richardson, Health and Safety Manager for Robert Bosch Limited said: “In only a short period of 12 months, we have witnessed a significant shift in the company’s safety culture as a greater number of staff acknowledge the importance of health and safety and the impact which it has on the working environment and fellow employees. It is a message which we will continue to drive forward in order to seek an even greater level of participation and further advances in health and safety during the forthcoming year.”

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who takes a keen interest in health, safety and the environment, commented: “I am delighted to send my congratulations to all of those organisations being presented with an award by the British Safety Council. These awards recognise the crucial success that these organisations and their employees have achieved in their pursuit of excellence in the management of health, safety and environmental matters at an international level. The event provides an opportunity to publicly recognise the important contribution made by the British Safety Council in promoting health, safety and environmental best practice. I would like to place on record my appreciation of the support given by the Council in raising public awareness of the benefits effective health, safety and environmental management brings to business, the environment and the economy as a whole. I am confident that by continuing to work in partnership with you, employers and employees we can tackle the many challenges we face to achieve a healthier, safer and sustainable society. We will strive to accomplish our goals in reducing the burden on employers and employees and cutting the 36 million working days currently lost each year through work-related ill-health and injury.”

Bosch media enquiries:
Chris Wakley / Marco Ferrari
Automotive PR
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7494 8050
Email: cwakley@automotivepr.com / deden@automotivepr.com

Bosch OE enquiries:
Jo Hudson
Robert Bosch Limited
Corporate Communications
Tel: +44 (0)1895 878155
Email: jo.hudson@uk.bosch.com

About Bosch
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. In the areas of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology, some 260,000 associates generated sales of 43.7 billion euros in fiscal 2006. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 300 subsidiary and regional companies in more than 50 countries. This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for further growth. Bosch spends more than three billion euros each year on research and development, and in 2007 applied for more than 3,000 patents worldwide. The company was established in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) as the ‘Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering’.

The special ownership structure of Robert Bosch GmbH guarantees the entrepreneurial freedom of the Bosch Group, making it possible for the company to plan over the long term and to undertake significant up-front investments in the safeguarding of its future. Ninety-two per cent of the share capital of Robert Bosch GmbH is held by Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, a charitable foundation. The majority of voting rights are held by Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG, an industrial trust. The entrepreneurial ownership functions are carried out by the trust. The remaining shares and voting rights are held by the Bosch family and by Robert Bosch GmbH.

Additional information can be accessed at www.bosch.com and www.bosch.co.uk