ATG Access wins fourth RoSPA Gold Award for safety

ATG Access has won a RoSPA Gold Award for the fourth consecutive year, recognising the St Helens security manufacturer's workplace health and safety performance.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents assessed the company's performance over the 2025 calendar year. Gold Award winners demonstrate a high standard of occupational health and safety management, risk control, and low levels of harm and loss.

ATG Access manufactures hostile vehicle mitigation and perimeter security systems. The latest award extends its run of annual wins and places its safety record among the stronger performers in its wider group during the assessment period.

According to ATG Access, the business recorded the highest health and safety audit score across its group at 91%. It also reported one of the group's strongest safety culture scores at 98% and only one lost-time accident over the past five years.

RoSPA's assessment covered leadership, employee engagement, training and competence, contractor management, risk control, communication, auditing, incident investigation, and continuous improvement.

Safety focus

ATG Access said its approach centres on leadership involvement, employee participation, and investment in safety systems and training. It highlighted regular cross-functional health and safety committee meetings, updated contractor management processes, training programmes, mental health and wellbeing support, and digital reporting tools used to log hazards and track improvement.

The company has also introduced measures across its operations, including new equipment, pedestrian detection systems, and tighter permit-to-work procedures.

Richard Ellis, Managing Director of ATG Access, said: "This award provides independent recognition of the work our teams put in every day to create and maintain a safe, healthy working environment. We are proud to have achieved this for the fourth time in a row, demonstrating our consistent commitment to protecting our people, supporting our customers and continuously improving the way we work.

"Health and safety is ingrained into our way of working, our mindset and our culture. We create safe working environments, invest in employee wellbeing, share best practice across our supply chain and maintain high standards of quality and operational performance. We want every employee, contractor and stakeholder to feel empowered to raise concerns, contribute ideas and help us improve. That commitment remains at the heart of everything we do."

Assessment criteria

The RoSPA Awards are among the UK's longest-running health and safety recognition schemes. They assess how organisations manage occupational health and safety and work to reduce accidental harm and work-related ill health.

For manufacturers and engineering businesses, RoSPA recognition can serve as an external benchmark for internal safety systems and site practices involving staff, contractors, and project delivery teams. In sectors linked to construction, infrastructure, and security installations, those standards can affect day-to-day operations as well as relationships with customers and suppliers.

ATG Access said health and safety has been embedded across its operations, supply chain, and project delivery work. This reflects a wider effort by industrial companies to tie safety performance more closely to management oversight, workforce training, and reporting systems.

Founded in 1989, the company supplies security systems designed to protect critical infrastructure, public spaces, and urban environments. It operates from St Helens and manufactures products used in hostile vehicle mitigation, perimeter protection, and access control.

Its latest RoSPA result adds to a record that ATG Access says has been built through continuous review of incidents, audits, and working practices. The figures released alongside the award suggest management is tracking both formal compliance measures and broader indicators such as employee attitudes to safety.

That combination has become increasingly common as businesses look beyond accident rates alone when measuring workplace risk. Audit scores, reporting activity, training records, and culture surveys are now more widely used to judge whether policies are being applied consistently on the ground.

At ATG Access, the emphasis on contractor management and permit-to-work processes points to the operational risks that often arise when multiple teams work across manufacturing sites and installation projects. The use of digital hazard reporting tools also suggests a move towards faster identification of issues before they develop into incidents.