14 October 2025
VGC Wins 2025 Solihull Pioneer Award
VGC Group has been recognised with the Solihull Pioneer Award at the 2025 Solihull Chamber of Commerce Awards, held at the National Conference Centre on October 3rd.
26 March 2019
RoSPA silver award for health and safety
VGC is proud to have achieved a Silver in the internationally-renowned RoSPA Health and Safety Awards. The award recognises VGC’s practices in helping our staff go home safely at the end of every working day. Our entry included our ground-breaking behavioural safety programme, which has been embraced by the construction industry organisations since we first
12 June 2018
Observations lead to fewer incidents
Our key influencers are making a tremendous difference everywhere they work. Since 2012 the number of observations has risen in direct proportion to the number of key influencers on site. And, as shown on the graph above left, as observations (blue) have risen, incident rates (red bars) have fallen dramatically. As trained workforce champions, our key influencers
6 November 2017
Additional benefits from behaviour-based safety
Our ongoing commitment to health and safety is producing an unexpected extra bonus. As well as improving site safety culture, ‘Be Safe by Choice with VGC’ has promoted dialogue between staff. VGC’s Be Safe by Choice behaviour-based safety programme includes the appointment of workplace safety champions, our key influencers. The programme equips key influencers with
24 August 2016
H&S award for BBMV Crossrail C512 project
We are proud to have won an important health and safety award on the Crossrail Whitechapel station project C512. Paul Whyte, BBMV’s health and safety manager, presented the Health and Safety supplier forum trophy to Chris Ryan, VGC’s operations director, at the senior management forum. Chris thanked the VGC team, saying: “Thank you to the
22 June 2015
HSQE expert promoted to director
John Hannan has been promoted to HSQE director for the VGC Group. Terry Dutton-Wells, our previous HSQE director, is stepping back from his operational responsibilities to become a non-executive director. A dedicated health and safety expert, with a range of safety qualifications and a wealth of experience, John (pictured left) joined VGC as HSQE manager
25 March 2015
VGC is 'Contractor of the Year'
VGC has been named ‘Contractor of the Year 2014’ on the Crossrail project at Bond Street station, based on the year’s safety scores. On the Crossrail project at Bond Street station managed by Costain Skanska, seven safety areas are measured each month, and the contractor who has scored highest is awarded ‘Contractor of the Month’.
17 September 2014
VGC collects yet more HSE awards
VGC is top of the contractors’ league table at Bond Street yet again – for August, as well as July, June, April, March, February and January 2014. We have also won the August subcontractor HSE award for our work on the M1 junction 19 improvement project. These awards recognise the teams for their commitment to
16 July 2014
British Safety Council audit awards VGC three stars
After a detailed British Safety Council audit in spring 2014, VGC has been awarded an overall audited score of 82.33%, and a cumulative score of 80.3%, giving an overall grading of three stars. The audit of VGC’s health and safety management systems included a review of safety management documentation, interviews with managers and staff, and
1 October 2012
VGC sets gold safety standard
The VGC Group is setting standards for safety in the workplace across the construction and rail industry. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) awarded VGC its most prestigious accolade, the Gold Achievement Award, in recognition of our high levels of performance in keeping the workplace environment safe for our staff and contractors.
18 May 2012
Zero Harm improvement award
VGC has been awarded Balfour Beatty’s Zero Harm improvement award. This was in recognition of our successful management of safety on the M25 project. We achieved this by providing positive support to Balfour Beatty’s Zero Harm programme, and consistently improving the safety culture of our workforce. VGC recently introduced a programme of behaviour based safety
