SUSTAINABILITY SPOTLIGHT | 19 A voyage of discovery Becoming a “National Demonstrator” As Raynor Foods is a large organisation producing Raynor Foods are hoping to become a “National 80,000+ sandwiches a day, implementing a major Demonstrator”, highlighting how others could use the organisational transformation was bound to present combination of smart people, smart factories and smart challenges. practices to tackle their own sustainability goals. “The biggest challenge for us is obviously taking this “We have to be a microcosm of where the industry project within the live environment. It’s not a nice lab, needs to be, because we can’t do it by ourselves,” where everything is done securely and nothing goes out says Tom. “We want to inspire people to follow us, at all. How do you control that?” says Thierry Batariere, showcasing how some of the technology we’re using Senior Innovation Project Manager at Raynor Foods. can help engage the workforce.” Tom is also keen to highlight some of the challenges You can 昀椀nd out more about the project and ways to they initially faced around the use of the digital engage through their website: links, notably the negative associations with the “Big https://www.s3project.net/. Brother” practice of monitoring employee performance. “We were very careful not to call them tags, and we received comments that ‘you tag prisoners and cattle, not colleagues’,” says Tom. Sta昀昀 had a number of other concerns ranging from “Does it emit harmful radiation?” to “Does it record It’s not all about money. sound?” “Lots of questions like this came bubbling up, and we’ve It’s about achievement, done our best to address each one of those queries in a recognition, development reassuring way,” says Tom. and wanting quality time But despite the challenges, Tom and Thierry are already with family. impressed with the project and are looking forward to the full gami昀椀cation process being implemented. They’re also hoping the project will have an impact outside the workplace. Having realised that family was such an important motivating factor for the Raynor Watch the webinar Foods workforce, Ergün took steps to emphasise how issues such as climate change could a昀昀ect them Project leads from consortium personally and how adopting sustainable practices in partners, including Raynor Foods, their day-to-day lives could mitigate that. the IfM and Software Imaging, Turning carbon champions on the shop 昀氀oor into cover how the project is delivering carbon champions at home can only make everyone real-time carbon monitoring and involved a winner. motivating the workforce through demonstrating carbon reductions.