Xylem Water Solutions & Services nets 18 awards for safety excellence, accountability, and care.
Xylem Africa, the continent’s leading vendor for pure water solutions and innovations, has been awarded the Gold Award for health and safety performance by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), the world’s largest health and safety programme.
For 2024, Xylem won a total of eighteen RoSPA Awards—15 Gold and 3 Silver—awarded to Xylem Water Solutions and Services (WSS).
Xylem Africa is proud to again be a part of the awards haul. Xylem’s Cape Town site won its second consecutive Gold award, and Xylem’s Kempton Park site in Johannesburg achieved its first Gold award.
The RoSPA Award recognises organisations that demonstrate an ongoing commitment to high safety standards. Earning so many awards is no small feat—a clear reflection of Xylem’s vigilant and accountable safety culture, where care is front and centre.
“At Xylem, safety is the foundation of everything we do. Creating a safe environment is what allows us to deliver with excellence every day. Today, I’m proud to recognise our Water Solutions and Service team for their outstanding achievements in safety performance. Safety is not a milestone—it’s a mindset. By continuing to lead with safety, we build a stronger, more resilient WSS. Congratulations and thank you to every colleague who made this recognition possible,” said Chetan Mistry, Xylem Africa’s strategy and marketing manager.
The Ultimate Benchmark of Safety and Excellence
Sponsored by the UK’s National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH), the RoSPA Awards scheme is the longest-running of its kind in the UK. It receives entries from organisations across the globe, making it one of the most sought-after achievement awards for the health and safety industry. Now in its 69th year, the awards receive almost 2,000 entries annually from over 50 countries—covering more than seven million employees.
Xylem Africa’s engineering, workshop, and storage facilities once again demonstrated their safety standards and culture to the satisfaction of the RoSPA judges.
“NEBOSH is delighted to be the headline sponsor of the RoSPA Awards. Recognising excellence in health and safety is essential to ensure we celebrate achievement. But it is also about reinforcing a culture of care, accountability and continuous improvement. These awards serve as a powerful reminder that employee safety and wellbeing transcend borders, and looking after our people so they can go home safe, healthy, and happy every day also drives sustainable success and resilience,” said Dee Arp, NEBOSH Chief Quality Officer and the Head Judge of the RoSPA Awards.
Safety Culture That Puts People First
Xylem is a leading innovator in the water technology market, with brands such as Flygt, Sensus, Godwin, and Lowara, and a significant partner network serving sectors from public utilities to commercial businesses and industry. Yet, it knows its people and their welfare are its greatest strength.
Safety training is about equipping employees with the skills and confidence to take action when it matters most. Xylem’s Health and Safety Framework is built on six pillars:
- Leadership
- Employee engagement
- Communication
- Risk management
- Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) systems, and
- Data
It has robust management systems, encompassing appropriate resources, effective structures, and strong governance, all establishing standards for monitoring health and safety performance. During 2024, Xylem employees completed 36,000 safety training hours in areas including compliance, safety leadership, and risk management.
“RoSPA regards Xylem as a strong example of the importance of making accident prevention central to any successful organisation, not just for the benefit of employees, customers and clients, but also society as a whole,” said Julia Small, RoSPA’s Growth Director.