Health and Safety

As ever, Health and Safety is a major factor for contractors and clients alike. Our experience in working in live areas with vulnerable people for the past 3 years with zero issues speaks volumes for the management and operative focus on H&S.

We understand the role of Principle Contractor/ Designer and often act as both. Working with clients to ensure that our documents are edited into formats that work in line with their standard doc’s. We create phase plans, pre-commencement activity and ensure communication with the client and operative is constant and simple.

Each project or job is assessed individually and where appropriate we give our staff on site inductions and safety packs before they start so they are aware of the site rules, who the site manager is, who to contact in an emergency, nearest exits and hospital locations.

There is still a focus on the operative to complete dynamic risk assessments on site to ensure safety of the site the operative and the public. In this regard it is essential to keep training up to date. We do this in several ways:

 

Annual training:	Asbestos, manual handing, working at height, First Aid
Monthly:	Tool box talks
Fortnightly:	Conference call (all staff) Chance to highlight any H&S issues
Ad-hoc:	Issues as they arise with manager
Project specific:	Normally weekly, H&S, scheduling

We extensively COSHH train our in house staff so they are aware of the dangers of any substances they may be using.

We use a proven supply chain of sub-contractors. These are vetted before we use them and obtain all their insurances, method statements and risk assessments.

We have a regime of site induction, quality checks, feedback from other staff, residents, and job completion/ final checks.