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Perspectives on Alcohol in the Construction Industry – Drinkaware x Tilbury Douglas

Drinkaware is working with the Considerate Constructors Scheme to help people working in construction understand their relationship with alcohol and how it affects their health, wellbeing, and workplace safety. They spoke with two Tilbury Douglas employees, Dan Hooley, a Quantity Surveyor, and Georgi Dimov, a Senior Project Manager, to explore how people across the construction industry view alcohol, wellbeing, and…

The British Heart Foundation: Health at Work

The health and wellbeing of your workforce should be made a priority. You can achieve this by working alongside the British Heart Foundation to raise awareness by using their free ‘health at work service’ to promote workplace health and wellbeing. The British Heart Foundation can bring Health at Work events to your workplace for a small fee. These include: Heart Health Workshops which…

World Heart Day

World Heart Day is coordinated annually by the World Heart Foundation. This day focuses on creating healthy heart environments. By ensuring that everyone has the chance to make healthy heart choices wherever they live, work and play, World Heart Day encourages us all to reduce our cardiovascular risk, and promotes a heart-healthy planet for those around us. To support World Heart Day on your site, you…

Utilising Fitbit Technology

Monitoring the health and wellbeing of the workforce should be consistent. Individual health and safety should be monitored so management and the relative advisers can manage the wellbeing of the workforce. This can be difficult on a construction site due to time and the sheer size of the workforce. The below example demonstrates how one site overcame this challenge: The…

Stand Up campaign

Sites should be able to demonstrate that they care for the health and wellbeing of all members of their workforce. This includes identifying occupational health risks and providing first aid and emergency information. Land Securities have launched their ‘Stand Up’ campaign aimed at workers who are sitting for long periods of time during the working day. Whilst the Scheme recognises…

Cycle to Work Day

Cycle to Work day is coordinated annually by Cyclescheme This is a national event aiming to encourage everyone to take to two wheels and cycle to work for at least one day to promote active travel and healthy living. To support Cycle to Work day on your site, you could do the following: Encourage operatives to cycle to work; Use posters to highlight the…

Morning Exercises for Construction Workers

Skanska have developed the ‘Injury Free Environment’ initiative, to get workers focused on safety. Employees in the construction industry are often exposed to physically heavy workloads and tough conditions and the industry generally suffers from high levels of absenteeism. With this in mind, Skanska encouraged more than 600 construction workers in Nashville, to take part in a 10 minute stretch and flex workout…

Personal Health MOT’s

We recognised that no matter how healthy we all are, there is always room for improvement, and the health and wellbeing of our staff is important both to the business and individuals, after all we spent a good proportion of our time at work. We introduced personal health MOTs as part of our health and wellbeing programme, to give our…

Construction Sport Membership

This contractor is an active member of Construction Sport – an organisation that provides sporting opportunities for construction workers to enjoy themselves, taking part in a rugby match, for example, whilst supporting them both physically and mentally. Construction Sport also provides help and guidance on mental health issues in several other ways, including a group chat and a weekly podcast….

Health Kiosk

We have installed within our Gym a health kiosk for all of our workforce to use. This machine takes around 90 seconds to use and measures your weight, height, systolic/diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, body fat, fat mass and free fat mass. Once the cycle has completed it prints out a receipt showing your results, it also references the BMI,…

The Fitness Factor

This contractor teamed up with a local gym and personal trainer to deliver a round of The Fitness Factor. The initiative is now in it’s third year and is offered to all staff across the three regions. Previously, the programme involved all staff members who signed up being split into teams and competing against each other to take on activity-based…

Making Bikes More Accessible

Where possible, sites should be making efforts to reduce fuel usage by supporting and providing carbon reducing forms of transport. They can do this by encouraging the use of bicycles and making this type of transport more easily accessible to the workforce. Cycling has the additional benefit of improving operatives’ health and wellbeing. Examples of how site managers have encouraged cycling include:…

Building Strength to Prevent Workforce Injuries

This initiative is focused on preventing repetitive strain injuries in construction which currently accounts for a third of all construction related injuries. The contractor has engaged with a former Team GB and current Red Bull Sport Strength & Conditioning coach to develop a programme specifically aimed at reducing repetitive strain injuries in the construction industry. The overall aim is to…

Folding Bikes for the Project Team

To aid in getting the project team back on site safety during the coronavirus restrictions where feasible and allowed, they bought twenty folding bikes for the team to use. This allowed for the team to travel some or all of their journey to and from work by bike and therefore avoiding public transport which was more congested and presented more…

Electric Bike

Due to the site having two sections that are a 1 mile round trip and the site manager having medical issues the site team purchased an electric bike. Visiting between sites can happen several times a day and can add up to 10 plus miles during the course of the day. Having the electric bike also assists with a faster…

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