UKSBS wins national award for Green Belt training programme

UKSBS has won Training Programme of the Year at the 2026 Operational Excellence Awards UK for our Green Belt Lean Six Sigma training programme. The awards took place on Thursday 24 September.

UKSBS Team At OPEXUK 4 3 V2

The award celebrates UKSBS’s commitment to giving colleagues the skills and tools they need to make continuous improvement part of everyday work. Over the past 12 months, three cohorts of employees have completed the training. To achieve Green Belt accreditation, colleagues must not only complete the course, but also deliver a continuous improvement project with measurable impact. 

Those projects are already delivering practical improvements across UKSBS. They include strengthening how customer feedback is gathered and used to improve services, and making user guidance and knowledge articles clearer, easier to find and more useful. This matters because continuous improvement helps simplify services for customers, reduce avoidable effort for colleagues and make it easier for people to complete tasks successfully through self-service.

Julie Lammond Ross Collecting OPEXUK

“I’m honestly thrilled on behalf of the Operational Excellence team and UKSBS. This further supports our continuous improvement strategy as we continue to build our Lean capability in Green, Yellow and White Belt, driving improvements for both UKSBS and our clients, and empowering our teams.”

Julie Lammond-Ross, Operational Excellence Senior Manager
Richard Semple BW

“This is excellent news and reflects the hard work of our Operational Excellence team and colleagues across UKSBS. It absolutely reflects our constant drive for service excellence, cost efficiency and customer satisfaction.”

Richard Semple, CEO

The win was part of a strong year for UKSBS at the awards, where we were shortlisted in five categories overall.

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