WrightWay wins top industry award

SOUTH PETHERTON, U.K. - June 14, 2013 - PRLog -- The award ceremony, now in its seventh year, recognises innovation and excellence in the maritime safety industry. An expert judging panel, comprising of representatives from across the maritime industry, selected WrightWay for its ‘Securing the Future’ culture change programme and Human Element Leadership and Management (HELM) training. The two combine to provide a workforce empowering process that creates a ‘one team’ approach to safety across a company.

Judges of the award said, “WrightWay has demonstrated its advanced approach to maritime safety through creating a culture of shared ownership and accountability, which results in fewer injuries, a safer and healthier working environment, a happier workforce and greater profits.”

Another judge, who had spoken directly to a client of WrightWay, said, "It is all very well when a company blows their own trumpet, but it is something else again when a client so fully endorses the efficacy of the training, as CalMac have. This was very influential on our decision, and there was unanimity and enthusiasm amongst the judges on this award."

The client commented, “We have trained all our senior employees with WrightWay since 2005, and it has cost us £500,000. In my opinion it has been the best £500,000 we have ever spent!"

Commenting on the award, founder of WrightWay, Captain John Wright, said, “I am absolutely thrilled to receive this award. It’s fantastic to be recognised by the marine industry for the efforts my colleagues and I have put into developing extremely robust training and culture change processes, to reduce the number of incidents at sea, whilst also saving businesses money and time.”

The award builds upon WrightWay’s recent success when it became the first independent British company to be awarded the Human Element Leadership and Management (HELM) accreditation at management level.

WrightWay received the accreditation from the United Kingdom Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) following a rigorous application process. The successful accreditation was the culmination of many years of lobbying by WrightWay to achieve recognition of the importance of human factors training in ensuring seafarers live and work in a safer environment.

WrightWay conducts human factors training and delivers ‘Securing the Future’ culture change workshops at a variety of locations in North America, Asia, Europe and the UK and has a long list of case histories demonstrating how companies have benefitted from its training and consultancy services. Their team of expert consultants has a broad range of skills and experience from many industry sectors including shipping, oil & gas, manufacturing, aviation and defence.