Safety Health and Environment Forum

Portal’s Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) Forum

Portal’s Occupier Solutions offer our clients a tailored business driven property solution that is formulated around an extensive consultation process, and clear, relevant and regular reporting throughout the contract duration. Our clients focus on their core competency and rely on Portal to utilise their expertise to drive efficiencies, implement best practice and deliver the leading occupier solution.

Portal act as a single source supplier and use best of class partners to provide the level of service our clients such as IBM, E.ON, BskyB and Provident Financial demand. Portal ensures the effective management and performance of the supply chain by regular meetings and reporting but also implementing initiatives such as the Portal Safety, Health and Environmental Performance Contractor Forum.

On the 13^th of June 2013 the Portal SHE Committee onducted the first of what is hoped is a Bi-annual SHE Contractor Forum at their Dearne Valley site, there were attendees from G4S, CSG, ISS and Swinton Commercial.

The overarching aim of the event was to improve the collective SHE Culture and Performance of all the attending companies.

Topics included:

a)      Thinking of ways to improve Safety, Health and Environmental performance

b)      To look at attitudes and beliefs as organisations to drive forward change

c)       To tap into the expert knowledge in the specialist fields of each contractor

d)      To secure commitment to long term improvement and agree the way forward

e)      To ensure any barriers to effective collaboration are overcome

f)       To ensure Portal effectively understand, communicate and reflect our clients expectations

During the event there was constructive discussion about the Portal Group’s objectives and in particular the objective of zero accidents in the workplace.  Portal’s management of suppliers is based upon a core principle of placing the utmost importance on Health and Safety in all aspects of service delivery.

Swinton Commercial gave an interesting and thought provoking presentation, giving an insight into the consequences of not doing enough to improve Safety Health and Environmental performance, explaining the very serious impact it can have socially, morally, physically and financially.

Portal intend to utilise these forums on a regular basis  to ensure the high level of customer of satisfaction, retention and continual improvement continues across our nationwide portfolio of customer facilities.