Construction sites may operate through all seasons, but it’s important to remember the additional safety measures and precautions that will help you survive whatever the colder, wetter months throw at you. Preparation will help you care for your workforce, reduce accident or trauma risks and hopefully keep your build...
As the construction site manager, or if construction is your business, you have a duty of care to keep your construction site safe for your workforce, but this can certainly be a challenge. If you don’t organise it properly and provide appropriate safe spaces, large and potentially lethal equipment...
Construction sites often have a lot going on at any one time, from site managers carrying out administration tasks to labourers transporting heavy materials and equipment. It’s important on such a busy site to have suitable space for rest, breaks and management. These on-site requirements are key to the...
The summer months on a construction site can be just as challenging as the winter for your labourers and workmen. Whilst the winter requires shelter from freezing temperatures and harsh elements, the summer can also bring unbearable conditions with higher temperatures and exposure to the sun. This can make...
The pandemic has had a massive impact on businesses across the country. As a lot of industries have been allowed to resume work, one thing all employers need to be concerned with is keeping people safe. With that being said, below, we outline five steps you can take to...
Unfortunately, power sources can sometimes be unreliable, unobtainable or simply not up to the job at hand. When this happens, it can be necessary to hire a generator that can meet your power requirements so that you encounter minimum disruption to your work. In the construction industry in particular,...
When it comes to meeting the requirements of Health and Safety guidelines and regulations on building and construction sites, site cabins are essential and very useful for a variety of reasons. Site cabins come in a range of different sizes and configurations and can fit several different requirements that...
When it comes to the setup of your construction site, it is vitally important that you provide the appropriate construction site hire facilities for your workers, and this means ensuring you do more than simply providing them with a portable toilet onsite for their use. Construction work is physical...
On Monday 4th January 2021 Boris Johnson gave a televised address to the nation in which he set out the rules for England as a new lockdown was put in place to try and curb the rising number of coronavirus cases, and the new strain of the virus, that...
The winter weather has really set in, and with the onset of the colder shorter, colder days there are a number of things that you should consider if you want to keep your construction site safe and ensure that your construction workers do not have any accidents. Consider...