IOSH is Europe’s leading body for health and safety professionals and CC Infrastructure Services now our Manager is certified with IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety & Health). Managing Safely is a course designed to give managers all they need to know to help them promote awareness of health and safety matters in the workplace and ensure that high standards are achieved, and maintained.
Our operatives are trained to meet industry standards to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all our employees and those whom they effect. This includes complying with the requirements laid out within Chapter 8, Traffic Signs Manual. This is not a legal requirement but we recognise the principles make the industry a safer place to work.
Our Operations Director, Martin Izzard, has been awarded an ICATS Trainer Certificate by the Institute of Corrosion. As a certificated trainer, Martin is now qualified to train and assess operatives for individual certification. The ICATS scheme is a new comprehensive structured training scheme for the training, certification and registration of industrial surface preparation and coating operatives. It enables us to provide the ‘best value’ service to maximise coating performance over structure life and to reduce whole life costs.
We now have a NEBOSH (National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health) qualified Health and Safety Officer to ensure we are up to date with all new legislation.
MEWPs for Managers is an essential training programme instructing managers on the responsibilities and knowledge they require to deal with the constantly changing demands related to working at height on site and the use of MEWPs. CC Infrastructure Services constantly deal with height access challenges and understand the importance of working safely and effectively.
This course provides training for Scissor lifts and other forms of mobile vertical platforms and CC Infrastructure Services has had all the operational team leaders complete this training.
IPAF Mobile Boom
This course provides training for Boom lifts and other forms of Mobile boom platforms and CC Infrastructure Services has had all the operational team leaders complete this training.
All users of mobile aluminium towers are required to have had appropriate training for their safe assembly, alteration or dismantling. This is a requirement of the 2005 Working at Height Regulations. CC Infrastructure Services sent our operational team leaders on a PASMA course to ensure they met the UK’s industry standard for aluminium tower training.
All CC Infrastructure Services operatives carry CSCS cards (construction skills certificate scheme). CSCS was set up to help the construction industry to improve quality and reduce accidents.
Health and safety legislation requires operatives to wear a full body harness with a short lanyard in ‘boom’ type access platforms (MEWPs). We sent our operational team leaders on a course so they know how to identify and select the correct type of harness, and of its safe inspection and use.
This Industry Common Induction (ICI – LU) is intended for staff that will work on London Underground managed infrastructure on behalf of TFL. Its purpose is to give such staff an initial overview of the risks and their controls that can arise when working in the railway construction project environment. The induction is intended to be a foundation module, covering the general health, safety and environmental issues found in the railway construction project environment. Its primary function is to remove occurrences of repeated briefing of the same subjects across different projects.
There are many extremely dangerous jobs that individuals perform on a daily basis but, working in a confined space may be one of the most dangerous jobs that there is. Those who work in confined spaces do their jobs in places not meant to be inhabited by humans even for a limited amount of time. Therefore we ensure our operations teams are trained and prepared for this specific projects. Understanding what to do and how to do it when faced with a situation will help to avert panic and allow your training to take over which could save you from serious injury and may even save your life. Knowing what to do before you enter a confined space, what to watch for while you are in that confined space and how to get out safely will ensure that you will be free to complete the job at hand without undo worry about your safety.
This an important training requirement to us here at CC Infrastructure Services, to help members of our staff and the general public. This training helps employees learn to be more conscious of safety in the workplace, leading to a reduced number of accidents and injuries. Minimising risk to workers and decreasing workplace incidents is a benefit to everyone, but for employers it has implications within all aspects of business operations.
We have both fire marshals for both head office and operations team members. This training provides knowledge around fire hazards and involves assessing the risks and specific hazards present within your environment and then installing appropriate fire safety measures accordingly, including equipment such as fire alarm systems, fire extinguishers and emergency lighting.
We hold our silver FORS accredited along with holding this accreditation we must ensure we are implementing this throughout the business. All of our drivers are provided with training for Safe Urban drivers (SUD) Vulnerable Users , E-learning to ensure safety.
Personal track safety (PTS) is a qualification which every worker has to have before being allowed to work on or near any line owned or managed by Network Rail. It is designed to help workers to understand the systems that keep them safe. PTS training aims to make rail workers aware of their surroundings at all times on the railway, so they stay safe.
The legal requirements within the construction industry have grown enormously over the last decade. Construction site managers and supervisors now have a legal responsibility to their fellow construction colleagues and the public. It is not just the legalities and regulations of construction that they have to adhere to.
The Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) is an educational course designed for construction industry managers who are responsible for the safety of their workforce and the public. The aim is to make the building site a better and safer place for both the worker and the public. The legal requirements within the construction industry have grown enormously over the last decade. Construction site managers and supervisors now have a legal responsibility to their fellow construction colleagues and the public. It is not just the legalities and regulations of construction that they have to adhere to.
For more information on our training and development commitment to our team please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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