Reflecting on the Facilities Management Awards 2026, held last 11th March at the Radisson Blu, Royal Convention Centre, Dublin, celebrated the highest standards of facilities management excellence across Ireland. Among the evening's most celebrated wins was Bidvest Noonan's recognition for the Excellence in Health & Safety award, earned through its Good Catch initiative, a programme that has set a new standard for practical safety engagement within the facilities management sector.

Launched in 2024 within the Task platform, the Bidvest Noonan Good Catch initiative was built around a straightforward but powerful insight: that safety reporting is only as strong as its accessibility. When frontline operatives face language barriers, literacy challenges, or cumbersome reporting processes, risks go unrecorded and opportunities for prevention are lost. Good Catch removed those barriers entirely, making reporting available via voice to text, translation tools, and mobile devices, so that every colleague, regardless of language or background, could contribute to workplace safety with confidence.

The results speak directly to the quality of that design. Over 900 safety reports were logged following the initiative's launch, representing a 400% increase in reporting activity. Of those reports, 44% addressed slips and falls, one of the most persistent risk categories in facilities services environments. That volume of engagement, achieved through accessibility rather than compulsion, reflects a workplace safety culture where reporting is understood as a shared responsibility rather than a management obligation.

The judging panel highlighted the Good Catch initiative for precisely this reason. By deploying accessible technology to lower the threshold for participation, Bidvest Noonan demonstrated how proactive safety culture can be built from the ground up, giving frontline teams real-time visibility and a genuine stake in the safety outcomes of their workplace.

The 400% increase in reporting is not simply a metric. It represents hundreds of moments where a risk was named, recorded, and addressed before it could become an incident, which is exactly what effective health and safety management in facilities management looks like when it is done well.

Stay tuned for the Facilities Management Awards 2027 cycle, where Ireland's top facility and property management teams will once again have the opportunity to showcase their achievements.

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