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Women’s PPE Roadshow

Published 12 March 2024 | Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesEngagement and commitment from the workforce PPE

This contractor worked with their suppliers to arrange a ‘try on’ event for the women’s PPE range. This gave female colleagues the opportunity to try out the range on offer in a variety of sizes to ensure a comfortable fit and order what they required on the day. Providing properly fitting, comfortable PPE in women’s sizes, is an important way…


Site Set Up Manual including PPE for Female Workers

Published 12 March 2024 | Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesPPE

With an increasing female workforce, this contractor have included within their site set up manual, PPE available to sites from their partners provider. The provider ensure that ‘Caddick selected’ PPE are in stock for call off when needed. This includes female sizes which are a better fit for the female members of the workforce.


Inclusive PPE in Construction

Published 21 November 2023 | Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesDisadvantaged and minority groups support PPE

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), Construction Management Magazine and CIOB People have launched a new campaign to address the lack of inclusive PPE in construction. They brought together a panel of experts to hear their experiences of badly fitting PPE, why it is dangerous and what needs to change. The current shortcomings in PPE provision are nothing new for…


Women in Property Outreach Programme

Published 16 January 2023 | Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesDocumented activities and targets for community engagement Promoting construction as a career choice Schools and nurseries

Women In Property, the contractor and local authority have partnered together to deliver a construction related school outreach programme to a group of 28 pupils at a local high school. The programme comprises of 8 weeks, including an intro to the project followed by sessions from a range of different disciplines in architecture, planning, structural and mechanical engineering, client focus,…


Female Comfort Boxes

Published 16 January 2023 | Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesSanitary bins Suitable/accessible separate facilities Supply of free sanitary products Toilets

After recently carrying out some research into female site welfare standards, one suggestion was to provide ‘comfort boxes’ in the female toilets. Alongside enhancing their minimum standards for toilet facilities following feedback from their employees and visiting clients, they also teamed up with Grace and Green who provide sustainable sanitary solutions that are not only plastic free, but organic and…


Menopause Action Group

Published 21 October 2022 | Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesAccess to health practitioners and counselling services EDI/FIR training Facilities designed to accommodate equality and diversity needs

This contractor has set-up a Menopause Action Group, recognising that for many people who experience the menopause that it can have huge impacts on their personal and professional lives. The group aims to raise awareness both in work and at home including for men who have partners going through the same. They have implemented specific measures to support their people…


Spotlight on… posters

Published 17 October 2022 | Written by CCS Best Practice Hub Administrator
CategoriesCarbon reduction Display CCS registration materials Mental health Modern slavery training Random substance testing Signage

Spotlight on… posters have been designed for general display in and around site welfare facilities. The Scheme has developed a collection of A3 posters from the series of ‘Spotlight on…’ learning toolkits. This resource has proven valuable for display on site and raising awareness amongst the workforce and visitors. To purchase these products, click here. To download a free electronic…


Residents Women in Construction Bootcamp

Published 12 September 2022 | Written by Thomas Doherty
CategoriesColleges and universities Community engagement Promoting construction as a career choice

Over the past few months this contractor has been working with the Royal Borough of Greenwich and London South East Colleges to set up a women into construction boot camp to provide training and skills to get women from Greenwich Borough into the construction industry. It is being provided in a 4 week programme with recruitment of learners being delivered…


Promoting Women’s Contribution to Construction

Published 6 June 2022 | Written by Caoimhe Barry
CategoriesDisadvantaged and minority groups support Engagement and commitment from the workforce

This contractor saw an opportunity to promote women in construction through their different projects throughout Ireland and UK. The trend started on their Dungiven to Drumahoe Dualling programme when female staff were offered a ‘Wills Sisters’ jacket to help promote women in construction. This was so successful that the company have now implemented this in their other sites across the…


Combatting Period Poverty

Published 20 December 2021 | Written by Debbie Plavinskas
CategoriesSanitary bins Supply of free sanitary products

This contractor believe all women should have access to sanitary products during their period however, there are many women who are experiencing period poverty and are unable to access or afford them. These women have no choice but to use rags, socks, or even newspaper to manage their menstruation, making them vulnerable to disease. This project team decided to make…


Breast Feeding Friendly Site

Published 25 October 2021 | Written by Shannon Dawe
CategoriesSuitable/accessible separate facilities

On this site they have pregnant women or mothers present, therefore they have recognised a private space was needed to pump in private to keep up their supply therefore they dedicated a private nursing room for use by the project team and visitors, with a range of appropriate facilities as a minimum standard. The facilities provided include a comfy chair,…


Self Defence for Women’s Safety

Published 4 October 2021 | Written by Lucy Austin
CategoriesTraining plans

Common Sense Self Defence led an informative and action-packed session for all female staff across the project whether site based, working from home or off-site. This was implemented as the final part of the contractors 3-part plan for women’s wellbeing as their team returns to site, which has included focuses on period dignity and domestic violence prevention. The instructor began…


3 Point Plan for Women’s Welfare

Published 4 October 2021 | Written by Lucy Austin
CategoriesSanitary bins

This contractor implemented a 3 Point Plan to support women’s wellbeing at work. This plan focused on domestic violence, period dignity and self-defence to create a safer environment both in and out of the workplace. This is especially poignant as domestic abuse reports significantly rose during lockdown & in 2020 it was reported that 55% of women were sexually harassed…


Gender Equality Workshop

Published 27 September 2021 | Written by Lucy Austin
CategoriesConsultation Feedback

To promote sustainable employment, a Women’s Network was established to enable locally recruited women to discuss key issues such as health, gender equality and celebrate International Women’s Day. The local women’s network provides the environment to enable women to not feel alone in a male dominated industry A recent outcome has been the creation of an interactive gender equality workshop…


Wills Sisters

Published 2 August 2021 | Written by Yara Gomes
CategoriesDisadvantaged and minority groups support

Women make up around 14% of construction industry professionals and this number can only be set to rise with more and more women choosing construction jobs. Misconceptions about gender specific roles are gradually diminishing with the growing number of women choosing a career in construction. This project is promoting a toolbox talk about women in construction. The toolbox talk brings…


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