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Engage for Success Programme

Published 28 June 2016 | No comments
Written by Andrew Sharp

CategoriesCareer planning and progression for employed staff Continuing professional development Engagement and commitment from the workforce Learning plans and training available Support for careers advice Supported by management Workforce development plans

We often hear phrases along the lines that our people are our biggest asset. Whilst this statement may be true, we recognised that how we listen to our people can be a big indication of whether we take this statement seriously. As part of our business culture where ‘developing, valuing and respecting our people’ is one of our key values,...

Personal Health MOT’s

Published 16 May 2016 | No comments
Written by Andrew Sharp

CategoriesExercise Health risk assessments and monitoring

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...

Time Lapse Photography Supports Litter Campaign

Published 9 May 2016 | No comments
Written by Andrew Sharp

CategoriesEducation Periodic inspection and clean-up of boundaries Social media

In 2014, A-one+ picked 8,895 bags of litter from the Area 12 (Yorkshire & Humber) project, and in 2015 A-one+ picked 13,780 bags of litter. This 2015 figure represents a 55% increase since 2014. Putting this in context, in 2015 A-one+ picked on average 53 bags of litter every weekday of the year – laid side by side enough to...

Bring Your Child to Work Day

Published 31 March 2016 | No comments
Written by Andrew Sharp

CategoriesPromoting construction as a career choice Schools and nurseries

Our Area 12 STEM Ambassador Group arranged a ‘Bring your child to work day’ during the summer holidays to encourage more young people to consider Engineering as a career and provide greater awareness of our construction and engineering activities around the network. This allowed us to reach local communities, to share what we do and why we do what we...

The GRIT Awards: Recognising our Excellent Staff

Published 2 March 2016 | No comments
Written by Andrew Sharp

CategoriesWorkforce recognition programmes

Our GRIT employee award scheme recognises achievements, good work, commitment above and beyond, and dedication of our staff. This internal award scheme is an expression of our business aim to develop, value and recognise our staff as our biggest asset. Posters, e-communication and start of shift briefings promote the scheme to our staff. Each quarter our own staff have the...

Remote Control Grass Cutting

Published 1 March 2016 | No comments
Written by Andrew Sharp

CategoriesLandscaping Periodic inspection and clean-up of boundaries Reasonable working hours

As part of routine maintenance of highways we need to cut extensive amounts of grass along the highway verges including on uneven ground and up and down embankments. We know that slips, trips and falls are some of our bigger risks, and that alternative plant to carry out these tasks can include use of vibrating tools (e.g. strimmers) with associated...

Accommodating Local Businesses During Works

Published 29 February 2016 | No comments
Written by Andrew Sharp

CategoriesAdvance notice of disruptive works Communication of any expected disruptive works Planning of traffic routes Pre-start information Reasonable working hours

During a three week surfacing scheme, planned road closures would result in restricted access to and from a local business. With the A64 comprising two lanes with no hard-shoulder at this location, essential surfacing maintenance work required full road closures of the westbound carriageway, and Paradise Lane directly accesses the A64 in the closed length. The works were programmed over...

STEM Ambassador Group

Published 29 June 2015 | No comments
Written by Andrew Sharp

CategoriesCommunity engagement Plan to positively promote construction Schools and nurseries

We have established our STEM Ambassador Group based in A-one+ MAC Area 12. This group brings together registered STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Ambassadors and those interested in career skills development and promoting engineering. Cementing our commitment to this initiative, the group is chaired by our Human Resources Director and local senior managers. We originally started with four STEM Ambassadors....

Partnership Training with Freight Transport Industry

Published 6 March 2015 | No comments
Written by Andrew Sharp

CategoriesCommunication and training of requirements Near miss

As part of ensuring everyone’s safety we developed and implemented our No Strikes training initiative with the freight transport industry, to enhance the safety of the public and our workforce. Through recording near misses and accidents, we identified a high incident rate of HGV collisions with our traffic management vehicles, whilst we were setting our traffic management on the strategic...

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