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Hazard board awareness
We currently place our hazard board at the entrance to our site compound by the sign-in booth. This can display daily hazards and up-coming works to keep all trades aware of the dangers on site. As most notes can look similar and sometimes be missed; we added hazard lights to each side of the board which we turn on to...
Monitoring Unauthorised Vehicles
On site, the team had developed an app which monitors any unauthorised vehicle incursions into the works area by barriers having a movement sensor attached which is connected to the app. Any unauthorised vehicles can be recorded and if part of the works team., they can be monitored on the same system. Warning of any unauthorised private vehicles entering the...
Tyre, MOT and eco-driving tips for workers
As part of promoting safe and sustainable transport for the workforce, a campaign day was held to raise awareness on green driving and how workers could save money, or even avoid penalty points on their licence. This included online surveys as part of the Sustainable Transport Campaign, a free tyre MOT and a free Eco Driving Pack for all workers...
Visitors’ Suggestions
The project has adapted its visitors’ signing in records to request health, safety and environmental suggestions or ideas. This shows that the site appreciates its visitors’ opinions, showing consideration, courtesy and respect from all those visiting the project, which quite often are a ‘new pair of eyes’. This helps to engage the workforce and helps embed a culture of continuous...
Clear signage ensures safe vehicle egress
This bespoke signage has been designed to ensure smooth and safe vehicle egress from site, onto a one way road. It demonstrates the three step sequence of our gate team to enable safe exit. Crowd control barriers are pulled across the pavement to protect pedestrians, the oncoming traffic is halted by the second marshal and the lead traffic marshal indicates...
Electronic Visitors Induction 
The Carntyne Primary school team have launched a digital visitors induction process via the onsite iPad’s. Making the induction process more interactive and easier for visitors and staff. The electronic induction includes a visitors sign in function, lists the site rules and key site information. The induction also showcases the site layout plan and fire and emergency procedures as well...
Speed Awareness Course for on site employees
At Morgan Sindall we think it would be a good idea to offer the police speed awareness course to our direct employees and sub contractors in order to be proactive rather than waiting for them to get caught speeding and then attending a course. We feel that sometimes people are so busy thinking about getting to and from site that...
Improving site visitor experience
As a considerate constructor Heron Bros is committed to improving the safety of all our employees and site visitors. To ensure site visitors are fully informed and safe at all times, Heron Bros introduced a pre-visit information pack and site visitor pass. The pack is designed to prepare the site visitor and ensure their visit is pleasant and safe. The...
Forklift Safety Zone Lighting
One of the key areas of injury on construction sites across the country is through moving vehicles and plant on site. As this is an area identified by all sites, many contractors already have control measures in place to help combat this. Segregated walk ways and banks men only, sounders and flashing beacons are all part of the solutions that...
Professional Driver Recognition Scheme
Continuous improvement is key to a robust health and safety policy. Incentives can be a useful way of encouraging employees to improve their behaviours. See the examples below for how one site addressed this: The company has rolled out a Professional Driver Recognition Scheme, with three levels of accreditation linked directly to drivers’ bonus pay. Targets are set for each...
Visual Communication of Safe Working Limits – Rail
In order to help the platform reconstruction teams to identify the Safe Working Limits of the Permanently Earth Sections (PES) on the Liverpool Lime Street Re-modelling and Re-Signalling Project, Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd as Principal Contractor have been using Magnetic Blue flashing LED lights (Night-searcher Pulsar Pro rechargeable 9 function LED warning lights) which attach to OLE structures as a...
Green light to highlight tunnel refuge points
Construction work in confined spaces, such as tunnels, poses a unique risk to those working on site. One of these risks is the danger of collision between pedestrians and plant machinery. See the examples below for how one project addressed this: The project team identified the Plant Pedestrian interface within the tunnels to be a high consequence risk. Refuge bays...
Leica PowerDigger 3D to avoid underground services
As a Site Manager, avoiding underground services is always at the forefront of my mind. Having the Leica PowerDigger 3D system installed on our 360-excavator helped fill me with confidence that as a team we were doing all we could to not add to the service strikes statistics. This system allows the operator to view a 2D or 3D model...
QR codes to translate induction information into five languages
Sites should ensure that workers from all backgrounds have a sound understanding of site procedures. Translators are the most common method of achieving this, but some sites are seeking to further improve site knowledge for workers who are not comfortable with English. See the examples below for how one site achieved this: The site’s induction process is an interactive experience...
On-site rest stop for delivery drivers and driver fatigue brochure
1 in 5 driver deaths in Ireland can be attributed to driver fatigue. Sites should consider the wellbeing of all drivers connected to the site and ensure they are well-rested to minimise the risk of road accidents. See the examples below for how one site achieved this: In response to the realisation that on either side of the site motorway,...
Individual Hazard Boards for plant operatives
Due to the logistics of the area and the site being “brown field”, the site was split into three sections. Works were being carried out at separate stages on each section, so the Project Manager Sandy Haggart wanted to reinforce the daily hazards in each section to the plant operators working there. In addition to a main hazard board for...
Language improvement card for operatives
Communication is vital on a construction site to ensure the safety of all workers. When some employees are not as confident with English, it is important to take appropriate steps to ease communication as much as possible. See the examples below for how one site addressed this: The site introduced a language improvement card for those identified at induction as...
Retractable safety curtain for public protection during vehicular unloading
In recognition of our CLOCS Champion status, on our 1-9 Seymour Street project, situated a short distance from London’s Marble Arch, the team devised an innovative, fire retardant, retractable safety curtain. The site is located on an extremely tight footprint, with no off-site loading/unloading areas. The curtain therefore serves as a protection barrier between the highway unloading point and the...
NRMM tagging system
Mace at the Tottenham Stadium project have devised and implemented an NRMM (Non Road Mobile Machinery) tagging system in order to comply with the planning conditions imposed upon them by the GLA relating to air quality. All plant (NRMM) that meets a certain criteria is required to meet EU Emission Stage IIIA or above. In order to ensure that this...
Use of broadband reverse alarms
The project team at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Development have implemented the use of broadband reverse alarms. These have been retrofitted to all MEWP’s. This stemmed from a complaint to site relating to noise at night. The project team undertook a fact finding exercise on how to more proactively mitigate environmental nuisance and noise specifically. Broadband or white noise reverse...
Area status sheet
The day to day activities of a building site is forever changing and to help with making people aware of the status of each area we have created an area status sheet. Within this, we can state the status of all hazards, as well as notify the specific works being carried out at the time. This is also displayed in...
SHE Hazard Application
The SHE observation app is in use which includes app interface on a mobile phone with GPS location detector and a web based portal to enable trending and gives the user the ability to view hazards by type, location etc. The benefits of this system include: Ability to trend data more robustly by location of occurrence, type etc. Ability to...
Verge Hardening Reduces Maintenance Burden
The A64 Whitwell dual carriageway trunk road suffers from sub-standard horizontal and vertical geometry, leading to increased maintenance such as grass cutting being required each year, some years more than others depending on weather patterns. With designing for maintenance principles in mind, we developed a permeable verge hardening solution which removed the grass and topsoil from visibility splays and replaced...
CLOCS Compliance Checks
Construction Logistics and Community Safety (CLOCS) is a national standard which brings together the construction logistics industry to revolutionise the management of Work Related Road Risk (WRRR) and embed a road safety culture across the industry. The CLOCS Standard calls for the construction industry to recognise its responsibilities for vehicles and drivers delivering to and collecting from construction sites. The Considerate Constructors...
Whiteboard Traffic Management Plan
Halsall Construction Health & Safety Policy has always included the use of hazard boards on our projects. This has now morphed into a Traffic Management Plan. The board is placed on the wall above the signing-in register. An overall plan of the site is printed onto a magnetic white board. The site team can easily update and revise the board...
Site visitor armband
Visitors to site, although always accompanied by a member of the site team, can sometimes pose a health and safety risk as they may not be used to being on construction sites. On our Knockmore to Lurgan Railway Ballast Rehabilitation Project we are utilising armbands for all site visitors. This acts as another visual aid to help our workforce, especially...
Virtual reality headset
Gear 360 camera is taken onto site and captures a 360 degree first person perspective environment of site conditions/installations. The image/video is then transmitted back to site office or another site on the project for lessons learnt/general understanding of what advanced installations look like. The user in the office wears the virtual reality headset and experiences being on site at...
Digital safety boards
Safety and signage have always been a major part of displaying the current legislation, current safety focus issues and good practices. The new age of this signage is digital signage boards which can be updated via memory card or Wifi depending on site conditions. The best thing about the digital system is the speed it can change without the need...
Easy Identification via Hi Viz Vest
Often contractors use the hard hat colouring system for identification. However visitors to sites may not be aware of the colouring systems and on larger sites it can be difficult to distinguish the hard hats. We therefore introduced differing coloured hi viz with larger icon trade names. This more effective in allowing delivery drivers, visitors and crane operators to identify...
Excavator and dumper collision detection
Due to there being a high number of incidents across the industry involving collision between plant vehicles Kier have now stipulated that all vehicles require a collision detection device to be installed as standard in order to be allowed on their sites. Since implementation over a year ago, no incidents of this nature have occurred.
