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News Release from: Kawneer UK | Subject: Architectural aluminium systems
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 October 2006
Kawneer is clear winner of HandS Glazing
Award
Leading architectural aluminium systems company Kawneer has won the glazing industry's G06 health and safety award.
Leading architectural aluminium systems company Kawneer has won the glazing industry's G06 health and safety award The company's manufacturing director Eric Evans witnessed environmental health and safety co-ordinator John Stopforth receive the commendation at a gala dinner in Birmingham organised by glazing guru Tony Higgin
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 1 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The health and safety category of the awards that are now in their third year is aimed at rewarding companies that have made clear progress and achieved positive results in this area, and Kawneer has definitely done that.
And in more ways than one.
Health and safety is Kawneer's number 1 priority in the workplace, and not only its own.
It strives to create an incident-free workplace for visitors and contractors, and has a genuine commitment to developing new products with safety as a core design principal.
One of these, Kawneer's unitised curtain wall system, was designed around the principles of off-site construction, to negate the use of scaffolding which can prove a falls risk on construction sites.
Kawneer was the first UK systems company to offer such a product 'off the shelf'.
Kawneer's door systems are also designed with finger guard profiles to minimise the risk of trapped fingers.
In addition, Kawneer has extended its health and safety inductions from all new employees to any contractors working on-site.
The company also offers a health and safety consultancy service to its network of approved and trained installers, encouraging safety on-site and in their own fabrication facilities.
And in an effort to reduce the number of first aid incidents at its own factory site in Runcorn, Kawneer introduced a 60-second risk assessment for the 130 shop floor workers and 110 office staff last year.
This comprised boards posted throughout the site that reminded them to stop and consider the risk before they started a job, aspects such as whether it required protective clothing or specialist handling equipment and where the nearest emergency equipment was sited.
The scheme has helped to reduce the number of first aid incidents by almost 75%, from 80 in 2003/4 to 22 in 2005, and has now been adopted as best practice by Kawneer's global parent company Alcoa. Request a free brochure from Kawneer UK ...
John Stopforth said: "If it wasn't for the co-operation of all our employees we wouldn't have been able to achieve this reduction and win this award in the first place.".
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