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Health & Safety
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With many years of construction experience, this has shown us what a high risk or hazardous industry it can be. This is why we ensure maximum effort is put into developing and maintaining our approach to site Health & Safety. SMD recognises the importance of the health and safety of other people who may be affected by our works, as well as our own employees. On each project we liaise closely with our clients to ensure that everybody is working to provide the highest possible standards of Health & Safety throughout the works. SMD take Health & Safety issues very seriously, and as a result, invest a significant amount of time and effort developing our working methods to ensure all work is carried out in line with our current policies, and ensure all of our people do too.

  • All of SMD’s site managers and on site operatives have achieved CSCS accreditation, including safety awareness training.
  • FASET approved and trained safety net riggers.
  • We make it easy for our staff to understand their Health & Safety obligations by investing in ongoing training as well as issuing all members of staff with our own Health & Safety information booklet.
  • We retain a full time Health & Safety Consultant who monitors our practices and delivers bespoke training as required.
  • We are constantly reviewing our working practices and identifying ways to eliminate risk.

As result of all of this, SMD maintains an excellent safety record.

Please go to our Client section where all of our standard Health & Safety documents can be down loaded.

In the absence of authorative heath & safety guidance within the steel decking sector we have developed our own Guide to Health 8 Safety on Site. This provides trade specific advice and establishes Company best practice for decking and stud welding operatives.
Long standing members of CHSG has given SMD access to not only an excellent source of Health and Safety advice but also to a comprehensive range of safety training courses covering a wide range of construction related subjects.
The Main Contractors Group Training initiative is firmly linked to the Governments Health & Safety Initiative and moves towards a fully qualified workforce. The CSCS card scheme identifies the trained and the qualified members of the workforce.
CHAS provide assessment criteria that can be used to confirm health & safety competence for construction contractors. The scheme assesses a company's health and safety policy statement, organization for health and safety, and, specific health and safety arrangements. Selecting a company who has demonstrated compliance with these standards helps a client make sure that they comply with health and safety law.
Only low velocity, indirect acting cartridge tools are permitted on SMD sites. All deck fixers' are trained directly by Hilti UK, the market leaders in direct fastening systems.
ACTA was established to address the training and developmental needs of the construction supply chain utilised by BAA. With a long history of Airside working selective site operatives and managers have been registered and vetted by the ACTA.