On this project they are working directly with the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to deliver a new state of the art Children’s Cancer Centre. The contractor and the hospital team collaborated with the GOSH Young Peoples Forum and Patients on the wards to allow the children to design the personal protective equipment of our traffic marshals.
The objective of this initiative was to support the GOSH Safe Streets Campaign to assist with the safety of the community by highlighting the presence of construction traffic associated with the project.
The process of allowing GOSH patient school children to design traffic marshal PPE commenced with workshops with the contractor, appointed designers and the children to draw patterns and shapes on PPE templates. These templates were then combined to ensure all schooled children of GOSH had their input in being apart of the final PPE design.
Following the design selection, the contractor shared the information with the supplier for a full prototype to be manufactured. Due to the safety risks that site traffic marshals face when escorting heavy plant and vehicles, the contractor recognised that it was essential that the PPE maintained the performance and visibility criteria outlined in Personal Protective Equipment Regulations PPER 2022 and EN ISO 20471. Due to the unique design of the PPE formal testing and validation of the bespoke PPE was required to validate conformity.
Following a number of edits and tweaks to the PPE design between all parties the PPE reached a compliant level of safety and was fit for us for the workforce.
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