McAleer & Rushe

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Provision of Icle Tests

Published 5 August 2024 | No comments
Written by Jack Endean

CategoriesHealth risk assessments and monitoring

As part of Men’s Health Week, this contractor dedicated a time to highlight the unique health concerns that men face. They launched their initiative offering free Icle tests to employees. The Icle Test is an at-home urine test to detect blood in urine, an early warning sign of kidney or bladder cancer and a recognised symptom of prostate cancer. Given...

Wembley Innovative System

Published 12 March 2024 | No comments
Written by Jack Endean

CategoriesCarbon reduction Modern methods of construction

The Wi System is a simple, yet extremely versatile alternative to traditional windposts and lintels. It is a method of providing structural support to masonry panels subject to lateral load and can allow the uninterrupted construction of ‘oversize’ blockwork walls with unrestrained lengths of 11m and heights of 8m. Hollow column and trough blocks allow the construction of integral reinforced...

Tablet Donation to Support Digital Inclusion

Published 12 March 2024 | No comments
Written by Jack Endean

CategoriesCommunity engagement Engage with community facilities Schools and nurseries

To support digital inclusion, wellbeing, the environment, and education and learning for children, this contractor donated 25 Fire tablets to annually support children from single parent, lower income, or vulnerable households to access online learning resources, tutoring, and support services at a local primary school. Additionally, 15 fire tablets were donated to residents at a local care home to help...

System to Provide Real Time Temperature and Strength Gain Notifications in Poured Concrete

Published 18 July 2023 | No comments
Written by Jack Endean

CategoriesInspection and assurance

Traditionally, when forming RC slabs on an RC frame, site can not issue a permit to strike the formwork until cube results have been returned, however the lab may not always have cubes crushed/results available. Converge DNA is a system that gives real-time concrete curing data and accurate AI predictions. Embeddable wireless sensors are cast into the slab, providing live...

Summer Homeless Appeal

Published 23 September 2022 | No comments
Written by Sinead Gorman

CategoriesEngage with community facilities Support for local charities

Every year around winter, this contractor donates coats and blankets to local charities or homeless centres, but with the increasing pressures of the cost of living on people we have found that there is still a massive demand in homeless centres during summer months. They came up with the idea of donating Summer Hygiene packs (similar to a Christmas Shoe...

Overdose Protection

Published 19 May 2022 | No comments
Written by Roisin Rafferty

CategoriesEmergency preparedness First aid

Following first aid being administered several times to members of the public who were under the influence of drugs and in need of assistance, the site team decided that more had to be done to be prepared for a potential drug overdose situation around the site. Stop The Deaths is a campaign designed to help increase awareness of drug overdoses...

Using the Scaffold Gantry to Engage the Public

Published 5 July 2021 | No comments
Written by Charlene Millen

CategoriesDisability and special needs facilities Visitor access and facilities

This project in Brixton is located in an area of high public footfall and therefore site management team have been looking at ways to keep the public engaged throughout the works. To do this they have recently cut out four vision panels in their loading gantry. Two of these are at a low level so children and wheelchair users can...

PPE Hygiene

Published 29 June 2020 | No comments
Written by Sinead Gorman

CategoriesCleaning and maintenance regime

With the ongoing risks surrounding coronavirus, all efforts have been made to ensure that hygiene levels are maintained as the lockdown has started to ease. Although we have introduced new hand washing and welfare facilities on site for staff to use, we are also now encouraging the staff to sanitise PPE such as gloves and helmets. While hand washing is...

Building Better Health Initiative

Published 26 May 2020 | No comments
Written by Charlene Millen

CategoriesCanteen

Our site team on our Bedford Square Belfast project recently implemented a site Health & Wellbeing initiative, ‘Bedford Building Better Health’. This was a 10 week site fitness programme. The key aim of this initiative was to encourage our workforce to make healthier lifestyle choices, not only on site but at home with their families. Each week different recipes and...

Hand Arm Vibration Safety

Published 2 March 2020 | No comments
Written by Sinead Gorman

CategoriesRisk assessments Safety signage

Hand arm vibration is an occupational hazard that can very often be forgotten about when carrying out risk assessments and while completing tasks. We have been focusing on the risks associated with hand arm vibration and how it can impact workers’ health as well as how it can be prevented. We have provided toolbox talk presentations on how injuries from...

Site Educational Tours

Published 13 January 2020 | No comments
Written by Sinead Gorman

CategoriesColleges and universities Community engagement

Due to the historical interest in the Ewart House building on the Bedford Square property, we extended the invitation to various parties for a site tour. We had students from the University of Ulster Architecture course and Aecom Engineering Apprentices on site to view various elements of the works, such as restoration of the old building and how this will...

International Men’s Day

Published 11 November 2019 | No comments
Written by Sinead Gorman

CategoriesCanteen Recreational facilities Rest Wellbeing events

As International Men’s Day approached, we wanted to draw attention to some critical information to our staff on site. With almost 50% of the population on the island of Ireland, and a large majority of the construction workforce being male, we want to make sure that our workforce not only go home safe but understand the every day risks presented...

Building Mental Health

Published 27 August 2019 | No comments
Written by Sinead Gorman

CategoriesMental health

With the increase of staff on site and added work loads leading to high pressure situations and time sensitive jobs to be completed, we implemented a full site stand down to carry out the ‘Building Mental Health’ toolbox talk. We arranged for all contractors on site to be available for the presentation, and provided an opportunity for conversation and engagement...

Supporting Belfast Pride

Published 5 August 2019 | No comments
Written by Sinead Gorman

CategoriesDisadvantaged and minority groups support

Belfast Pride Festival is one of the biggest festivals in the city and runs over 100 events across 10 days. The festival runs from Friday 26th July until Sunday 4th August (Pride Day) and the centrepiece Pride Parade on Saturday 3rd August with many local businesses and community groups taking part. The Belfast Pride Parade is the biggest cross community...

Supporting Men’s Health Week

Published 17 June 2019 | No comments
Written by Sinead Gorman

CategoriesHealth risk assessments and monitoring Mental health

A full site stand down took place so that a tool box talk discussion could take place on the key issues around men’s health to mark Men’s Health week. The following key points were discussed: A waist size of over 37 inches can have serious health implications for the heart, lungs, blood pressure etc. No more than 14 units of...

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