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Alleviating Overcrowding of the London Underground from Construction Workers During Peak Hours

Published 18 January 2021 | Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesControls and expected behaviours

Recently senior members of UKCG met with Transport for London to discuss the increasing burden that construction workers are having on the London Underground system during peak hours. London Mayor Sadiq Khan had sent a clear message that, unless the industry can find a way to not travel on the underground during peak hours there is a strong possibility that…


Purehold Welfare Door Handles

Published 11 January 2021 | Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesCleaning and maintenance regime

All all existing welfare door handles we changed to those of the “Purehold “ design which are 99.9% effective in killing bacterial such as coronavirus. These were developed for health and care settings and are coated with an anti-bacterial coating that kills germs and reduces risk of infections spreading. This was seen as a simple and cost effective way of…


Health and Safety Promotional Campaign

Published 11 January 2021 | Written by John Connelly
CategoriesConsultation on health and safety Health risk assessments and monitoring

The contractor has developed a health and safety promotional campaign titled ‘Stay Safe @Work @Home’. The purpose of the campaign is to promote and encourage everyone to reduce the risk of accidents, incidents and ill health involving their workforce, family and members of the public at work and at home. They want to try and expand on this by creating…


Video Virtual Tour

Published 14 December 2020 | Written by Lisa Zdravkovic
CategoriesInspection and assurance

The M6 Junction 10 Improvement Scheme, received its first Considerate Constructors Scheme Monitor visit on the 10 December. Unfortunately due to coronavirus restrictions it was not permitted for an in person Monitor visit to take place. The Considerate Constructors Scheme advised that the Monitor visit would be virtual via Microsoft Teams, due to the second lockdown and the tier system…


Contact Tracing Sensor

Published 14 December 2020 | Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesHealth risk assessments and monitoring

This site has around 1000 operatives onsite with the majority of them involved in fit out work. Whilst ‘large bubble’ working has been introduced for the separate buildings the site is vulnerable to a positive test causing a substantial proportion of the workforce to have to self-isolate on what is a government deemed key project. Therefore the site has purchased…


Workforce App for Site Entry and Exit

Published 30 November 2020 | Written by Leanna Martin
CategoriesControlled access

The site have adapted the site entrance and exit to a biometric contactless entry to and from site, via use of the M Site Workforce App. The App is downloaded onto individuals mobile phones and is a live method of finding out who is on and off site. The method reduces the need to touch shared surfaces (ie fingerscan) which…


Common Touch Point Stickers

Published 18 November 2020 | Written by Darrragh O'Loughlin
CategoriesHealth risk assessments and monitoring

Over the past few months, coronavirus has changed the way in which the industry operates. As projects return back to the workplace significant advances have been made in areas of occupation health and personal hygiene. With coronavirus being a substantial risk on site, the project team aimed to ensure that all operatives could come to work with the peace of…


Virtual Work Experience

Published 10 November 2020 | Written by Joline Hubers
CategoriesPromoting construction as a career choice Schools and nurseries

The site has been involved in helping to set up a virtual school so work experience can be undertaken online. This is due to the fact that school visits/work experience for students on site is currently not allowed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The online work experience will allow Year 10-13 students the opportunity to find out more about careers…


Automated Temperature Checks and Sanitisation Tunnel

Published 10 November 2020 | Written by Lauren Little
CategoriesCleaning and maintenance regime

To help with reducing the spread of coronavirus and other viruses within the workplace the project has installed an automated temperature check and sanitiser tunnels at the main turnstiles. All operatives accessing through the turnstiles have their temperature read by looking into a screen on the outside of the tunnel. If a high temperature above 37.8°c is identified the screen…


Using a 3D Printer to Produce Adjustable Straps for Face Masks

Published 2 November 2020 | Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesPPE

A 3D printer was used to produce 600 adjustable straps to permit the wearing of normal ear strap face masks to be worn by NHS staff, without the need to wear behind ears so removing the potential irritation and soreness. Positive in two ways firstly it allows existing PPE to be worn rather than be disposed of, and secondly it…


Metal Clip to Open Doors with your Feet

Published 26 October 2020 | Written by Matthew White
CategoriesCleaning and maintenance regime

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the health and safety precautions on site have significantly risen to deal with the threat the virus brings. On all the doors within the site a metal clip has been place on the door frame at the bottom, so that site staff can open the door without having to touch the door handle with their…


Digital Safe Counters for Successful Social Distancing

Published 26 October 2020 | Written by Olivia Hack
CategoriesCanteen

With coronavirus protection at the forefront of everyone’s mind and ensuring the project remains both safe, and compliant with government guidelines, the project team have worked with the security team to install an automated head counter into the drying/changing rooms. A large project subsequently means a large workforce and keeping everyone on site safe is a priority. A sensor is…


Multilingual Social Distancing Poster

Published 19 October 2020 | Written by Emma Mills
CategoriesEnglish not as first language support

Stepnell’s site team identified two key issues that they needed to address with regard to getting the key coronavirus social distancing message over to their workforce. Firstly, the fact that a large minority of their workforce’s first language wasn’t English. Secondly, how do you easily visualise what 2m looks like? The site manager suggested that a poster would be the…


H-Wash Handwash Stations

Published 19 October 2020 | Written by Emma Ward
CategoriesCleaning and maintenance regime

We needed to make the workplace safe after the coronavirus outbreak. We wanted to give the workforce plenty of opportunity, out on site, to wash their hands, kill germs and protect themselves. The H-Wash hand wash system was the ideal solution as it is a portable self-contained unit which requires no plumbing or electrics and can be installed anywhere on…


Room Occupancy Monitoring

Published 12 October 2020 | Written by Andy Packwood
CategoriesCleaning and maintenance regime Suitable/accessible separate facilities

What is it? The Room Occupancy Monitoring system counts how many people enter the room through the ‘in’ door and how many people exit through the ‘out’ door. The system keeps track of the room occupancy level against the set room capacity. The system has a display at the entrance to the room showing level of occupancy in the room…


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