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Health and Safety collaboration we have secured
(1-66 Operatives) three members of staff connection
Sponsor: Forgeco Ltd with a trained counsellor for a
Winner: City Access Scaffolding Ltd minimum of eight weeks. This
programme develops strategies
City Access has collaborated with with the individual to cope with
The Joshua Nolan Foundation – a suicidal/self-harm thoughts.”
charity that specifically works Further to its dedication to
to combat suicide by providing mental health within the workforce,
funding towards counselling for CAS currently offers all staff the
those who are at risk or impacted by opportunity to attend The Mindful
suicide. Although the construction Enterprise. This is an eight-week
industry has moved forward mindful course delivered by
with health and safety, such as The Mindful Enterprises skilled
protocols for preventing physical practitioners.
injuries and death, there are still Also, it offers saving opportunities
huge improvements to be made with Capital Credit Union. Generally,
in protecting the mental health of the scaffolders will tend to invest
Health and Safety (67+ Above: A workers. Since suicide is the biggest in the Christmas Saver Account.
Operatives) mobile App has killer of men between 20 and 49, Deducting a small amount,
transformed H&S
which they can afford each week
City Access has taken preventative
Sponsor: HAKI Ltd reporting action to avoid such tragedies within to save up money for when they
Winner: Benchmark Scaffolding Ltd Below right: the workplace. “At CAS, we offer all need it the most.
The City Access
The introduction of the Benchmark team picking up a staff the opportunity to reach out The company has also upgraded
App has been very beneficial to the previous NASC to our performance director if they its near miss reporting system and
company and operatives: no more H&S Award require support. Kirsty, performance developed a check list app
carrying booklets and pens and director, connected with the all chargehands to run through
it reduces the carbon footprint. It JNF as a volunteer. Through this before the start of work each day. ●
sends prompts for carrying out safety
checks and offers 110 toolbox talks.
The mobile App replaces the arduous
paper trail that site operatives
disliked so much; it has not only “Through
been endorsed by the site teams, JNF we have
but it has also encouraged them to secured three
complete far more near misses and members
safety observations than previous of staff
years, which is a bonus for accident connection
reporting and analysis. with a trained
Each entry from the App is counsellor for
entered into one portal, from there a minimum of
documents are filed into their own eight weeks”
sections and can be easily obtained
or retained for statutory periods.
The company also made great H&S
progress through carbon footprinting,
internal training and operative health
surveillance. More details on this can
be found on the NASC website.

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