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Drinkaware is working with the Considerate Constructors Scheme to help people working in construction understand their relationship with alcohol and how it affects their health, wellbeing, and workplace safety. They spoke with two Tilbury Douglas employees, Dan Hooley, a Quantity Surveyor, and Georgi Dimov, a Senior Project Manager, to explore how people across the construction industry view alcohol, wellbeing, and…
The health and wellbeing of your workforce should be made a priority. You can achieve this by working alongside the British Heart Foundation to raise awareness by using their free ‘health at work service’ to promote workplace health and wellbeing. The British Heart Foundation can bring Health at Work events to your workplace for a small fee. These include: Heart Health Workshops which…
World Heart Day is coordinated annually by the World Heart Foundation. This day focuses on creating healthy heart environments. By ensuring that everyone has the chance to make healthy heart choices wherever they live, work and play, World Heart Day encourages us all to reduce our cardiovascular risk, and promotes a heart-healthy planet for those around us. To support World Heart Day on your site, you…
Monitoring the health and wellbeing of the workforce should be consistent. Individual health and safety should be monitored so management and the relative advisers can manage the wellbeing of the workforce. This can be difficult on a construction site due to time and the sheer size of the workforce. The below example demonstrates how one site overcame this challenge: The…
Sites should be able to demonstrate that they care for the health and wellbeing of all members of their workforce. This includes identifying occupational health risks and providing first aid and emergency information. Land Securities have launched their ‘Stand Up’ campaign aimed at workers who are sitting for long periods of time during the working day. Whilst the Scheme recognises…
Cycle to Work day is coordinated annually by Cyclescheme This is a national event aiming to encourage everyone to take to two wheels and cycle to work for at least one day to promote active travel and healthy living. To support Cycle to Work day on your site, you could do the following: Encourage operatives to cycle to work; Use posters to highlight the…
Skanska have developed the ‘Injury Free Environment’ initiative, to get workers focused on safety. Employees in the construction industry are often exposed to physically heavy workloads and tough conditions and the industry generally suffers from high levels of absenteeism. With this in mind, Skanska encouraged more than 600 construction workers in Nashville, to take part in a 10 minute stretch and flex workout…
We recognised that no matter how healthy we all are, there is always room for improvement, and the health and wellbeing of our staff is important both to the business and individuals, after all we spent a good proportion of our time at work. We introduced personal health MOTs as part of our health and wellbeing programme, to give our…
This contractor is an active member of Construction Sport – an organisation that provides sporting opportunities for construction workers to enjoy themselves, taking part in a rugby match, for example, whilst supporting them both physically and mentally. Construction Sport also provides help and guidance on mental health issues in several other ways, including a group chat and a weekly podcast….
We have installed within our Gym a health kiosk for all of our workforce to use. This machine takes around 90 seconds to use and measures your weight, height, systolic/diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, body fat, fat mass and free fat mass. Once the cycle has completed it prints out a receipt showing your results, it also references the BMI,…
With a passion to look after our workforce, and when new initiatives become available that are designed to benefit our employees and be a better option for the environment, we are quick to see the benefits and join up. The cycle to work scheme is a government initiative that allows you to save money on the cost of a new…
This contractor teamed up with a local gym and personal trainer to deliver a round of The Fitness Factor. The initiative is now in it’s third year and is offered to all staff across the three regions. Previously, the programme involved all staff members who signed up being split into teams and competing against each other to take on activity-based…
Construction often involves long hours and working away from home, meaning operatives may not be familiar with the area in which they are working. This limits the opportunities for recreation outside working hours. One site addressed this issue in the following way: The site published short guides on local walks, showing routes and timings These walks were built on the…
To try to persuade our site staff to cycle to work, we have printed routes they could use to get to work safely. Using TFL super highway maps and other maps we have found online, we used these to give our staff a safe option for cycling to and from work. To help achieve many different objectives, from staff health…
Where possible, sites should be making efforts to reduce fuel usage by supporting and providing carbon reducing forms of transport. They can do this by encouraging the use of bicycles and making this type of transport more easily accessible to the workforce. Cycling has the additional benefit of improving operatives’ health and wellbeing. Examples of how site managers have encouraged cycling include:…