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All Bright Road Lining
Tarmac have developed ‘all bright’ road lining which incorporates crystals. The purpose of these crystals is to make the road lining clearer for drivers, helping them to follow the markings whilst travelling at night. This road lining is four times brighter and more durable than standard lining which increases safety to road users.
Site Marshal Active Experience Collaboration
Multiplex collaborated with Transport for London (TfL) to improve highway impact awareness for their marshals. This involved an escorted walk around two Multiplex sites to experience construction from the pedestrian perspective and to compliment class room training (Elite Marshal workshops). The physical accessibility of London’s streets, including the condition of foot ways, is important to improving people’s experiences of their...
Load Angel Access System
What it is An edge protection platform that stops falls from height and acts as a moving walkway to access the sides of a vehicle. The ‘Load Angel’ handrail fully encloses the vehicle and is pushed into place once the vehicle arrives at the loading bay. Each of the three steel work loading bays has one in place to ensure...
GRP Edge Protection Adjacent to the Railway
What it is Bespoke 1.8m high Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) edge protection system spanning 300m adjacent to King’s Cross Station powerlines. Unique, non-conductive edge protection that is able to provide a safe form of edge protection for operatives working near the railway. Specially designed, tested, risk assessed and certified in an off-site facility by Step-On-Safety and approved by Lendlease temporary...
Upstand Beam Stepovers
The project procured a number of steps (with handrails) which are used to assist operatives in stepping over the upstand beams throughout the project, preventing slips, trips and falls and reducing the impact on legs and knees. They are also lightweight so can be moved around without mechanical means and without a manual handling risk
RB22s demarcating pedestrian and vehicle routes
The project have utilised water filled fenced RB22 crash barriers along the walkway by the haul road which safely demarcates vehicle/ pedestrian routes and provide safety for pedestrians on the walkway. The RB22s can sustain up to 50mph impact ensuring safety if a vehicle was to move out of control.
LED Stop & Go Boards
The site have incorporated LED illuminated manual stop and go boards. These provide many benefits starting with greatly improved visibility and hence safety for operatives. The ability to respond quickly and efficiently to reported problems, particularly at night when the system is combined with halo-light fitted hardhats, increases road safety for all. This is an improvement to a long standing...
TV Screen for Cyclists
When planning our compound and hoarding, it became evident that the vehicles exiting the neighbouring building would not have a clear view of oncoming cyclists in the cycle lane. There would be an elevated risk to cyclists due to our hoarding and pedestrian walkway. A camera was installed which relays live images of the bicycle lane to vehicles at the...
Stop the Drop
Stop the Drop is a targeted safety campaign focusing on specific hazards on site. Buckets had been handed out to all of the subcontractors on site for small parts and tools. The exercise was conducted to remove all loose material and waste from all of the elevated working platforms. Specialist crews were assigned to this task of clearing areas of any...
Road Safety Week 2019 with CEMEX
Ahead of National Road Safety Week, over 1,000 local school children enjoyed a day of interactive workshops and classes to teach them about staying safe as cyclists and pedestrians. The team from Southall Waterside, including representatives from Berkeley and building materials supplier CEMEX, visited three primary schools in Southall in their third annual road safety campaign. The events also marked...
Vehicle-Mounted GPR
Part of the design phase of the works involves undertaking a full GPR (ground penetrating radar) of the whole scheme. As this is inner-city works affecting the carriageway and walkways, the majority of the GPR surveying requires night-time road works/ lane closures to safely undertake them. To help mitigate the time taken to undertake the GPR (which is normally conducted...
Vertemax Compressed Post
On The Broadway project, we have been working with Vertemax to install full height edge protection on our site by being the first Multiplex project to use The V – Compression Post, which is a game changer in creating safer work zones. The V – Compression Post are quick and easy to erect, weighing only 12.4 kg, making it easy...
GRP Hole Protection
On site, GRP Grating have been cast into slab on all Floor Riser Openings. This gave a maximum span of 1280mm at a maximum point load of 150KG. This method of hole protection has worked extremely well, and the decision was made to use this ‘solid top type’ of hole covering for waterproofing reasons. From a health and safety point, it...
Bespoke Maintenance Plate
The site used a bespoke maintenance plate to aid in pulling the top wire on a transmission tower. The new plate design allows for the block (or pulley) required to pull the new wire to be hung just outside of the top of the steel structure. Previously the block had to be attached within the structure by removing steel bars in...
Tethering Items for Working at Height
The site are using nut sockets which can easily have a lanyard attached so that they can be tethered to an operative. A nut which needs to be fixed is then placed in the socket and a small screw holds it in place. The first few turns of the nut on the thread secure the nut after which the socket...
Instaboom GS6 Overhead Barrier
This mobile barrier is a solar powered solution to overhead protection. It is a first in the industry and there is currently nothing similar on the market. Currently, the industry relies on signs, goalposts and blue cones. A system that stops a vehicle that is too high from passing through was needed and the Instaboom GSX barrier does this through a...
Riser Protection through utilisation of RiserSafe® system
Falls from height continue to be one of the biggest killers in construction. To minimise the risk of working at height in risers, the One Crown Place team have gone beyond internal and external recommendations in riser safety, challenging standard practice by designing out this key risk on the project by implementing the RiserSafe ® system. RiserSafe®, developed by a...
Accessible Crossing Point
The site team at Stobhill Mental Health Units have installed an accessible crossing point at the site entrance. The crossing points consists of tactile paving and line markings to form a zebra crossing. This was created to ensure a safe area for potentially vulnerable people crossing the site entrance.
Service Riser Protection
The GRP grating is called off to the exact size and shape required and delivered to site in aluminium form work to make it safer and easier to cast the recess into the slab for the GRP grating to sit in. This eliminates cutting the GRP on site (it is hazardous to cut) and using plywood form work and power...
Vision Zero Collaboration
Each year around 4,000 people are killed or seriously injured on London’s roads. People walking, cycling or riding motorcycles make up 80% of deaths and serious injuries on London’s roads. In July 2018, the Mayor of London, Transport for London (TfL) and the Metropolitan Police launched a bold ‘Vision Zero Action Plan’ to end the toll of deaths and serious...
Safety Socket
The Challenge: The Façade design at roof level is extremely challenging and requires a complex network of secondary steelwork to be installed at the building’s edge on both Level 52 and Level 53 which is one of the most high-risk elements of the project. This is mainly due to each Steel post requiring four loose nuts to secure it in...
Highways England Blue Star for the SMP M23
The SHE team working on the M23 SMART Motorways Programme have recently implemented Overhead Safe. Developed by Carnell’s Innovation Team as a Personal Hazard Alert System, Overhead Safe is worn by members of the site team where it provides a clear and visible warning of overhead hazards by illuminating the vest when it is within a designated warning zone. It...
Traffic Marshal Gloves
The site are running a trial on a new set of gloves designed specifically for traffic marshals. There is a lot of vehicle movement on the project and besides competency and all the other control measures in place, the site wanted something extra that could make a difference. The chosen glove is rated at cut level 5. This provides the protection...
Working at Height Manager
The first dedicated ‘’working at height’’ manager supervised the assembly of a large piece of hanging scaffold which was lifted above a wash tower and lowered into position. This eliminated 70% of the working at height involved with the project. Mace also encouraged its supply-chain to reduce risks which led to its scaffolding contractor producing a hop-up platform that has...
Stop the Drop
As part of our continual development on sites, PM Group in conjunction with the on-site mechanical sub-contractor MSL, implemented a “Stop the Drop” campaign. The campaign highlighted the importance of housekeeping, the line of fire and hazard awareness. The campaign also included a demonstration of the impact a dropped object can have. Using watermelons to reflect the vulnerability of a...
Improving Customer Experience and Reducing Delay
Taylor Woodrow are currently constructing a new motorway interchange on the M20 near Ashford, Kent for our client, Highways England. Taylor Woodrow and Highways England are continually striving to deliver a better service to their customers, and one of our initiatives is to reduce delays through Highways England roadworks. Following extensive monitoring and data collection by Taylor Woodrow around J10...
Using Datascope to Assign RAMS to Operatives
Datascope assigning RAMs to operatives – once inducted operatives review their RAMs with a supervisor using a tablet. They then sign using their finger print which attributes the RAMs to them and permits access to site up to the RAMs expiry date. If these expire before being reviewed, the operative is barred access to the work area until a review...
Efficient Alternative to Individual Lighting Towers
Sites that are not on a mains electricity supply often use individual lighting towers, each powered by a single generator, to provide lighting to site compounds etc. This can result in relatively high fuel use and associated carbon emissions. Volker Fitzpatrick chose instead to install a number of second hand street lighting columns, fitted with LED lights, linked to the...
Construction Site Security Guidance
Guidance developed by the National Business Crime Centre and the Metropolitan Police in partnership with the Considerate Constructors Scheme has recently been created with the aim to give advice on how best to secure the construction site in order to offer the benefits of a low crime development from the moment the hoarding goes up until the development is handed...
Hollco Auto Green
The use of the new auto green function on the brand new Hollco has helped to alleviate traffic queues in some cases. The use of these lights, on a scheme that we have running with Kier in Marlpit Road in Norwich, has helped to maintain the constant flow of public commuter traffic at peak times. The technology that Hollco has...
