May 2011

For immediate release

University scores top marks for safety

Leeds Metropolitan University has achieved a Gold award in the prestigious

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Occupational Health
and Safety Awards 2011.

The RoSPA scheme looks not only at accident records but also entrants’
overarching health and safety management systems, including important
practices such as strong leadership and workforce involvement.

John Hamilton, Head of Safety, Health and Wellbeing at Leeds Metropolitan,

commented: “Achieving the RoSPA gold standard is testimony to the hard
work of everyone involved in putting our health and safety policy into practice.
It shows we are serious about providing a safe and healthy environment for
our staff and students to work and study.”

David Rawlins, RoSPA’s awards manager, added: “RoSPA firmly believes

that organisations which have demonstrated their commitment to continuous
improvement in accident and ill health prevention deserve recognition. Leeds
Metropolitan University has shown that it is committed to striving for such
continuous improvement and we are delighted to honor it through the
presentation of an award.”

The Gold award was presented at a ceremony which coincided with the
Safety and Health Expo 2011. The majority of RoSPA’s awards are non-
competitive, awarding achievement at merit, bronze, silver and gold levels,
based on a range of performance criteria. Competitive awards are presented
in more than 20 sectors.

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For further details please contact Carrie Braithwaite in the News and Media
team at Leeds Met on 0113 812 3022 or email c.braithwaite@leedsmet.ac.uk

Notes for editors:

 Leeds Metropolitan University has 30,000 students and 3, 000 staff.

 The University has achieved its best ever Research Assessment
Exercise results. Sports-Related Studies is in the top 6 institutions in
the country with research rated at the highest levels of 4* and 3*.
 Leeds Met has been rated the top university in the UK for its language
support, accommodation quality and learning spaces in the 2010
Autumn Wave of the International Student Barometer and sixth in the
world for the quality of its lectures.
 The University’s award-winning learning environments include
Broadcasting Place, voted the best tall building in the world in 2010 by
the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
(CTBUH) and also winner of the 2010 Leeds Architecture Awards New
Building category, the iconic Rose Bowl building, awarded Best
Commercial Property Development in the 2009 Yorkshire Property
Awards and the pioneering Carnegie Village student accommodation.
 Leeds Metropolitan is one of only a handful of UK universities to have
been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard.