1. People

Without our people there would be no Jacobi. Supporting our employees and ensuring good health, well-being and that they are happy at work is vital. Anything that can be done to improve these is a positive step. If you have an idea, or if your colleagues have done something to improve your working environment or raise team spirit, then enter it into the awards!

Example: Supporting colleagues throughout difficult times or promoting physical and digital well-being amongst colleagues.

2. Safety

Whether you’re working in an office or on site, the safety of our employees is our number one priority at Jacobi. If you have an idea that would improve the safety of you and your colleagues at work, we want to hear about it!

Example: Implementing extra drills or training for emergency situations, or offering support or changes to operating procedures in different environments.

3. Environmental impact

As such a large organisation, it’s vital that we consider how our actions and operations affect the environment. This goes on regularly at the operational level as we consider our compliances and regulations internationally, but, to really make a difference towards our environment, there needs to be collective efforts. If you have any ideas on how to make our day-to-day business more environmentally friendly, enter it into the awards.

Examples: Changing your transportation method to work, such as introducing ride sharing schemes, or planting some trees to help re-generate an area. In an office environment, this might mean partially eliminating mass production and consumption of items in the workplace like excess paper or plastics.

4. Corporate Social Responsibility

Our business is an ever-growing global entity. As we achieve that growth, we know that with it comes an increased responsibility to take care of the people around us and impact the world in a positive way. This can mean anything from our work during difficult times or it can mean helping those communities around us on a day-to-day basis. If you have an idea that would really make a difference, then nominate it below.

Example: Donations to projects supporting the local community, activities that help improve community life in your area, or even simply individual assistance to someone who needs it.

5. Customer Retention

At Jacobi we need not only our employees, but our customers too. We want to ensure our customers remain with us throughout the years. Any new ideas or systems that will help keep our customers with Jacobi can be entered into this category.

Example: Implementing schemes to reward and promote good customer service.

6. Innovation

Jacobi is always evolving and innovating. This can be from a product application level, a production process or even how we communicate and collaborate across the world in each department of the business. Improving how we work helps to save time, money and increases efficiency overall. If you have an idea of how we can improve and innovate anywhere in the business, or if you have a colleague who has made instrumental innovations and improvements, then submit the details of these actions via the form below.

Example: Optimising products or workflows, rethinking existing systems, improved communications or collaborations around projects.

7. Quality

As you know we strive to produce the best product for our customers applications, behind the scenes our teams of experts are always working towards the most efficient performing product, however sometimes things can go wrong, this is a part of life, but when it comes to the business what really matters is how we deal with these issues. Do you have an idea for how we can ensure better quality control? Or how we can improve how we might handle customer expectations, maybe you or one of your colleagues has gone out of their way to ensure quality is at the forefront of our customer focus.

Example: Minimising response times to new customer issues, extra communications with customers on order information or logistics.

8. Security of Supply

Recent world events have meant that we’ve seen many extra challenges in terms of securing the supply of raw materials and activated carbon product to our customers which is, again, vital for the continuation of the organisation. Have you or one of your colleagues found inventive ways to overcome these challenges? Or maybe you found a way to improve the security of supply through general order processing priority and optimisation. Enter them in this category.

Example: Implemented order forecasting with a customer to ensure we can secure their product ahead of time.