Industry Awards
NHBC runs two national awards programmes: Pride in the Job and the NHBC Health and Safety Awards.
Pride in the Job
The Pride in the Job annual competition was started in 1980. All site managers running a building site that is registered for NHBC Warranty are automatically entered into the competition.
Pride in the Job is designed to recognise and reward quality standards in house building and, specifically, the role that site managers play in ensuring the quality on their site.
Judging takes place over an 18 month period by NHBC Building Inspectors with the Regional and Supreme winners in each category being judged by independent experts as well as NHBC Regional Directors. Site managers are scored against pre-set criteria to ensure consistency and fairness across the competition.
The competition is divided into four stages, culminating in the Supreme Awards presented at a gala ceremony. The stages are: Stage 1 - Quality Awards and Single Plot Commendations; Stage 2 - Seal of Excellence Awards; Stage 3 - Regional Awards and Stage 4 - Supreme Awards.
A Pride in the Job award is a fantastic credit to the individual site manager who will be selected from almost 13,000 site managers across the UK. Pride in the Job awards provide a number of benefits to the individual winners and to the companies that they work for. Pride in the Job awards are used by many builders in the marketing of their new homes to show potential buyers that the homes are built to high quality standards.
NHBC Health and Safety Awards
The NHBC Health and Safety Awards were launched in 2010 and are the only health and safety awards exclusively for house builders. Site managers are recognised for the health and safety practices on their site and companies can receive awards for their overall health and safety policies and procedures.
Each year, NHBC also invites entries into 3 Special award categories such as Best Occupational Health Initiative, Best Worker Engagement Programme and Best Health and Safety Leadership. The Health and Safety Executive, ConstructionSkills and Constructing Better Health provide representatives for the independent judging panel who select the overall winners in each of the site categories and the special award winners.
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