1/2

A healthier Business for Fabricom GDF SUEZ Employees

PRESS INFORMATION

Fabricom Oil Gas & Power Ltd Kings Road, Immingham, NE Lincolnshire DN40 1FN - UK

A HEALTHIER BUSINESS FOR FABRICOM GDF SUEZ EMPLOYEES

Fabricom GDF Suez has achieved a Better Health at Work Bronze Award from NHS Public Health North East in recognition of achievements in promoting a healthy workplace for their employees. The multi-disciplined engineering company embarked on a mission to incorporate better health and wellbeing in to their stringent safety and environment programmes already in place as part of the Better Health at Work Award scheme. Activities included: Men’s Health Toolbox Talks, Cancer awareness / healthy lifestyle workshop

and Mental Health First Aid Training and Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) screening over a period

of twelve months. Other health and mental wellbeing information was communicated through

newsletters and notice boards dedicated to the scheme at offices and project sites.

Craig Welford, Fabricom GDF Suez North East Business Operations Director said “As a business

that operates in the oil, gas, power and process sectors, we have always had stringent health,

safety and environment policies to

protect our employees due to the

risks associated with the environment

that we operate in, but when we

were introduced to Richie Andrew of

Health Improvement Service, South

Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

we realised that we were doing

everything possible to protect our

employees in the workplace but we

were not really addressing the health

and general wellbeing of our

employees in a structured way.’

“Participating in the Better Health at

Work Award has helped us to

structure our approach to health and wellbeing in the workplace and although it has been

challenging, it has proven to be a really worthwhile experience. The response from our

employees to the campaigns and activities that we ran has been fantastic, everyone got

involved and I think that we are all now better informed about our own health and what we

need to do to maintain good health.”

Fabricom GDF Suez is continuing to build on the success of the bronze award and have already

signed up to work towards the silver level of the scheme with the support of the How Healthy is

Your Business Team.

Richie Andrew, Health Improvement Specialist said “Fabricom have started the journey on the

Better Health at Work Award with great efforts during 2011, raising awareness of a variety of

health topics in response to their employees requests in their health needs assessment. They

have also invested into the programme, realising that the return on investment is worthy of the

initial outlay. We look forward to supporting Fabricom through the Silver award in 2012.”

ENDS

2/2

Press_A Healthier Business for Fabricom GDF Suez 18-05-2012

Erro

r!

Referen

ce

so

urce n

ot f

ou

nd

.– E

rro

r!

Referen

ce s

ou

rce n

ot f

ou

nd

.

Press Contacts

Fabricom

Colin McMillan

Business Development Director

Tel +44 (0)7740 736805

Karen Redfearn

Marketing & Communications Assistant

Tel +44 (0)1642 446 419

About Fabricom

Fabricom in the UK (Fabricom GDF SUEZ) is a leading multi-disciplined engineering project

management and construction organisation, providing professional services to the oil, gas and

power industries from its seven UK locations; which include Immingham, Brigg, Liverpool,

Chester, Teesside, Newcastle and Aberdeen.

Fabricom is part of GDF SUEZ Energy Services. As the European leader in multitechnical

services, GDF SUEZ Energy Services employs 77,500 people and achieved revenues of € 13.6

billion. GDF SUEZ Energy Services is a business line of GDF SUEZ, one of the leading energy

providers in the world.

www.fabricom-gdfsuez.co.uk