Click of A Button, a building and maintenance service company have won new business by promoting their enrolment in the Competent Contractor system on their website which has helped them to win new business (see below for an image of their website). Joey Auger, Managing Director at Click of a Button says: “Displaying our health [...]
Camfil Farr are a contractor who work for Skanska Facilities Services. They manufacture and install clean air solutions. Camfil Farr have been enrolled in the Competent Contractor system for 3 years. Over this period they have demonstrated significant improvements in their health and safety training. They choose to use the Human Focus E-learning [...]
Watkin Jones & Son Ltd, a principal contractor in the building of a shopping centre in North Wales has been fined £545,000 following the death of one of their contractors. The individual was working for a sub-contractor undertaking roof work when he fell 6 metres through an unguarded opening. The worker died on the [...]
An article published in Tomorrow’s FM discusses how there is a new trend in the way leading Facilities Management (FM) companies are managing contractor health and safety through the latest web technologies. Online systems saved both money and time for FM companies and contractors by automating many of the features of contractor’s health [...]
Skanska Facilities Services (FS) has recently achieved full operational status with the Competent Contractor system across many of its sites. This is the culmination of considerable preparatory work by both Skanska FS and their contractors. Charles Harrison says: “As the Skanska FS coordinator of our contractor management system (Human Focus Competent Contractor) for Healthcare, MOD, [...]
The Facilities Management Association, Health & Safety Group, is holding its first seminar on April 25th, 2012. Attendees will include health and safety specialists from many of the UK’s leading facilities management organisations. The event will have an interactive “Hot Topics” session as well a a number of presentations covering Preventing Slips and Trips in [...]
Skanska Facilities Services have been recognised by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) as having made a significant contribution to setting best practice in the field of contractor health and safety management. RoSPA said: “It is vital for contractors to be managed effectively by companies, and it can be a challenge for [...]
New Facility Now In Place To Help Client And Contractors Keep Up To Date With Insurance Certificates
There is now a facility on the Human Focus CMS which automatically reminds contractors to update their insurance documents when they are due to expire. The new facility will help both clients and contractors keep up to date with their records to maintain best practises in health and safety. This will help ensure that no [...]