Water and Effluent Treatment Magazine
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6 Data Project of the Year Winner MWH Treatment and Severn Trent Water For adopting a 'holistic' behavioural safety approach aimed at developing personal ownership of safety in design by analysing case studies and questioning behaviour. FINALIST: Clancy Docwra for its Video Toolbox Talks and Slideshows initiative, enabling staff to be kept up-to-date easily and regularly regarding key health, safety and environmental messages. FINALIST: Morrison Utility Services' Zero Strikes and Zero Harm initiative combines state-of-the-art technology with smartphone technology, online assessments, and one-to-one training. FINALIST: Morrison Utility Services' Lone worker app provides signifi cant new safety measures, including reduced incident response times, for operatives working in isolation. FINALIST: Wessex Water's Take 5 to Check 5 scheme acts as a pre-work risk assessment that can be used by all levels of management at work and in non-work situations. FINALIST: Z-Tech Control System's integrated training records with time-sheet input, requires each employee to answer one question every single week, based on their individual training records. Winner Severn Trent Water For its operational effectiveness project (OEP), which provides an evidence- based approach to operating WTWs. It assesses the full end-to-end process, looking at operational data and design specifi cations. FINALIST: Acoustic Sensing Technology / South West Water. Acoustic's SewerBatt technology has enabled the water company to prioritise / target the right resources for problem areas in its wastewater network. FINALIST: Anglian Water's Integrated Leakage and Pressure Management system makes it easier to spot and control leakage and to better target work. FINALIST: NI Water's Central Incident Management System is essential for reporting, recording and tracking planned and unplanned interruptions to water supply. FINALIST: Northumbrian Water Group's Asset Performance Analytics project overcomes increasing demand from regulators, customers and emerging competition to deliver greater effi ciencies while reducing expenditure. FINALIST: DataReal, working within a set of guidelines as set out by WICS and Scottish Water, created a data service to identify non-household customers at sites which are fl agged on the Market Data Set as vacant but are in fact occupied. FINALIST: South West Water and i2O for their strategy to create a network that the utility proactively controls rather than is driven by. i2O's iNet solution automatically generates reports and alerts on monitored PMVs highlighting their condition/status. Health & Safety Initiative of the Year What the judges said: "The operational effectiveness project was an excellent use of data to add value, and is also something which is easily replicable across the industry" What the judges said: "This scheme shows how health and safety can be brought to the start of the process, into the design team, and in so doing make things better for everybody. It's a sensible approach and one that deserves to win"