Topic Health and Safety, Infrastructure
Date 18 Jul 2024
Galliford Try has held a series of events to coincide with Global Lifting Awareness Day (GLAD) 2024 this week, highlighting best practice and ways of reducing potential harm.
The event, organised by Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (Leea), aspires to reduce all accidents, injuries, and fatalities within the lifting industry to zero.
The GLAD approach and the Industry Lifting Lead AP Group (ILLAPG) message of Hands off, Step Away, Safe Space aligns to Galliford Try’s own Back to Basics approach of Right Person, Right Planning, Right Workplace and Right Equipment, and is designed to limit as much as is practical direct contact with loads.
Seminars have taken place every day of the week, as well as a number of demonstrations and focused management visits to sites, including Chief Executive Bill Hocking and Health, Safety and Environment Director Mike Webb.
A video highlighting the correct methods for successful lifting has also been released from the Melton Mowbray Distributor Road project.
Bill commented: “Initiatives like GLAD play an important part in our path towards our safety aspiration of no harm. I hope that all those who have taken part can apply the learning they gained towards making our sites a safer place, and I thank everyone involved for their support.”