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Cougar
Automation Praised by Lord Hunt
Giving
the Keynote Address at the CBI Conference Centre on 14 June 2006 Lord Hunt of
Kings Heath praised Cougar
Automation saying:
'Cougar
Automation Ltd., an IT company with just 41 staff, is an environment where
even one absence would be keenly felt.
'They
introduced incident reporting for “near-misses”, and a stress awareness
programme. In addition all employees now have to pass health and safety
competence tests before they go on site.
Cougar’s
absence has dropped from 11.9 days per person in 2002 to just 5.2 days in
2005. In addition they enjoy excellent staff retention, which brings
down the costs of recruitment and training. An employee safety spokesman
said of the changes: “they have kept the company both financially and
physically healthy”.
'I
couldn’t have put it better myself.
'
Lord
Philip Hunt, Parliamentary Under Secretary (Lords) for the Department for Work
and Pensions was speaking at the 2nd Annual Absence Management Conference.
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