CDM Project completed on time and without any injuries
Aliona Matthews • 24 March 2021
Another project, where Nova Vita undertook a role of an independent third-party CDM Advisor, was competed on time and did not add to any injury statistics.
Our customer AJS Control & Automation
have just successfully completed another turnkey project for one of their key customers in the FMCG sector, where they undertook the role of principal contractor and appointed us - Nova Vita, as an independent third-party CDM Advisor to ensure CDM and general H&S compliance throughout.
From the planning stages and through to the execution of the project, we aided in compiling and distributing PCI and CPP, prepared and delivered CDM site inductions, workplace inspections and permit issue and provided exceptional (as AJS have put it) contractor control on site. Nova Vita facilitated communication and co-operation between client and contractors. This allowed the project to run smoothly with project handover being on time and no injuries.
“I feel our customer has not only had effective management of the site from a safety perspective but also overall leadership of program and work streams. This in turn has created great value for money.”
Said Steve Edgeley AJS Operations Director.
With the construction and manufacturing industries combined accounting for around 49% of fatal injuries
to workers in 2019/2020 and around 127 000 non-fatal injuries at work each year, I am pleased to say that the project we have just completed, did not add to any of the gruesome statistics under our watch.
“Your new permit book looks like it’s been in a battle, and it’s been only a month since you got them. Maybe we need to find a new printing company?” my partner said recently. But if the issuing permits done correctly - on site at the point of use, where you can assess the actual hazards and that controls and isolations are in place, and not from the comfort of the cosy, dry and warm office, then that’s how they inevitably end up looking, regardless of the book quality. Sure, you can reinforce the backs and spines, use some protective covers, but with the life span of few weeks for most permit books, before you need a new one, anyway, you can find a better use for your time. What permitting method you have used to control hazards and risks for site works that works for you?
3 days of intensive studying, filled with new information, case studies, tips, advise, questions, quizzes, games, jokes, ideas and banter. We were happy to meet and get to spend those 3 days with our new delegates, and feel grateful and honoured that they trusted us to do the training for them. The group was diverse, with their unique experiences, requirements and expectations - supervisors, H&S managers, directors, coming from Health Services and Air Ambulance, Manufacturing, Construction and Retail. One thing was in common – they and their companies care about the Health and Safety and want to do things right. Now the exam is done. We are waiting for the projects to be completed by the delegates and sent over to us for marking. Will Nova Vita retain the right to claim that all of our delegates always passed? We will soon find out. In the meantime, we hope that they all feel more confident and competent to perform their roles and tasks, doing risk assessments, investigating incidents (which hopefully will never turn into accidents) and using the appropriate control measures to prevent hazardous events from happening. Now off to Swindon to deliver another training.
Whatever are the reasons for you to look at attending the IOSH Managing Safely course, you might be asking yourself, is it the right training for me? Here we try and answer, what does IOSH Managing Safely offer and what you can expect from it.
