Health & Safety
The health & Safety of our staff, our partners, our customers, and the public is of paramount importance to A&B Engineering. Our Health & Safety record over the past 30 years indicates how highly we place Health & Safety within our business.
Commitment is demonstrated by regular review and updates of our Health, Safety and Environmental Policy. An association with Rawlings Consultancy Services commencing in 2006 has ensured that an extensive programme of safety training and education has been undertaken with both office and site staff.
All Contracts Managers and Senior Site Managers have successfully completed the IOSH (managing safely in construction) qualification allowing them to produce site specific Health & Safety Files, Method Statements & Risk Assessments. Site Managers conduct weekly tool box talks to their site operatives.
Site operative training is extensive and a planned training matrix is updated each time a group of operatives attend a particular safety course. 60% of Mechanical & Electrical site operatives are appointed persons in First Aid, whilst the required numbers of operatives are trained in Scaffold Erection, Working at Height, Asbestos Awareness, Confined Spaces and the use of Abrasive Wheels. We continue to support the training of our operatives in the areas mentioned and therefore enable us to update and develop our training matrix. All operatives now carry a CSCS skill card. It is a pre-requisite of commencing employment that a CSCS card is produced.
All of our operatives are JIB/HVCA graded confirming their competence in their field of work. We currently employ 35 Apprentices via the JTL/BEST training programmes, which confirms both our commitment to in house training and also to ensure that trainees acquire both a site knowledge of Health & Safety and an academic understanding as Health & Safety is included within the training programme syllabus.
We are pleased to state that although our workforce has increased by over 50% in the last 18 months, the actual accident incident percentage rate has fallen, with one reportable accident in the last financial year to end February 2007. We have never received an improvement or prohibition notice from the HSE and actively work with and encourage their participation and advice in regards our companies Health and Safety policies.