How digitalisation revolutionised safety culture
Notify’s ease of reporting, quick reporting time and modern and sleek look has helped us on our health, safety, and wellbeing revolution! It’s a dynamic piece of software that has helped us get all of our people on board and deliver informed safety improvements across all our divisions. Notify really is helping us to look after our people, guests and contractors.”
Matthew Jones, Head of Health and Safety
Chester Race Company aims to create the best experiences for hundreds of thousands of guests every year through the best horse racing and hospitality. They operate 3 racecourses with one in England, Scotland, and Wales as well as operating other divisions including a busy city centre hotel, conferencing, and events facilities along with an external catering and events management division called Horseradish. They have around 200 permanent employees with a wide range of seasonal staff. On race days they can have over 1,500 people working on site at their biggest course.
Chester Race Company had been using a variety of paper-based reporting forms and near-miss slips that posed challenges when it came to collating and extracting valuable insights to enhance the working environment for their staff and guests. Gathering statistics and sharing them was also a cumbersome process, as was conducting trend analysis. Effectively communicating improvements and making well-informed business decisions proved to be difficult, and the process of compiling end-of-season reports took longer than necessary.
Chester Race Company selected Notify for many reasons, including its professional, modern and clean appearance and the intelligibility of the apps that work hand in hand with the rest of the system. The ability for contractors and seasonal team members to log into the apps without a user account, was also a key reason for choosing Notify. The support they received from Notify while assessing different systems and the user feedback from other Notify customers was also key in the decision making.
The system has really helped revolutionise the safety culture across the Chester Races Group, and they have been able to onboard all aspects of their diverse business to ensure that every site, wherever they are in the UK, is able to utilise the software to report incidents, near-misses or positive safety observations. Notify has also helped the health and safety department deliver engaging health and safety reports via its dashboards modules to create engaging content for senior managers and health and safety representatives. The system is really helping them to look after their people, guests and contractors.
