Projects and case studies

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  • Worker involvement: evaluating HSE health and safety representative training

    IES was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive to evaluate its training initiatives for employee health and safety representatives, which aimed to increase the number of representatives.In the first instance, we evaluated two pilot...

  • Provision of an Evidence Review on Regulation Cultures and Behaviours

    IES carried out a review for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to investigate ‘what works’ to secure compliance within food business operators. The emphasis of the review was on the types of cultures and behaviours in businesses and enforcement...

  • New Student Support Arrangements: Follow-up to Institutional Case Studies

    The Higher Education Act 2004 led to several key and significant changes in the financial arrangements for full-time undergraduate higher education students - changes to charges or fees and to financial support arrangements - and these continue to...

  • Slips and Trips Accidents in the Workplace

    IES was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to evaluate the impact of the Health and Safety Awareness Officers (HSAO) campaign on Slips and Trips accidents in the workplace. The project gathered information about the work...

  • Retention of Black and Minority Ethnic and Female Police Officers

    By 2009, the police service had worked hard to increase the recruitment of Black and minority ethnic (BME) and female officers, and aimed to maximise the retention of such officers. Recent evidence indicated, however, that the rates of voluntary...

  • People Strategies for Business Planning

    The Housing Ombudsman Service asked IES to support their annual business planning process by facilitating the development of the 'people' strand of the five year strategy. This included a review of existing people strategies and policies,...

  • Supporting organisational redesign

    With declining resources and increasing demand, many councils are considering how to reduce costs while preserving key front-line services. The Improvement and Development Agency, together with Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands and...

  • A Coaching Evaluation Toolkit

    IES developed an evaluation toolkit for a national coaching scheme. The aim was to enable the scheme co-ordinators to evaluate at three different levels on an on-going basis: Effectiveness of the coach and the coaching (did the coaching work?);...

  • Relocation support

    IES worked with the Health and Safety Executive to evaluate the 'How and Where We Work' Programme, designed to support staff through the move to a single headquarters in Redgrave Court, Bootle. The evaluation was in the form of a case study,...

  • Gender Pay Gap Reporting

    IES worked with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to consider the most appropriate methods and measures that private and third sector employers could use to report voluntarily on gender pay gaps, in support of a clause in the...