Charles Edward considers the health and wellbeing of our employees, stakeholders and supply chain a top priority.

We are passionate about adopting a best practice approach when controlling the key health hazards arising from construction activities. Our supply chain are audited prior to mobilisation against our minimum standards. These standards require a demonstration of assessment and control measures of occupational health issues prevalent in the construction industry – those arising from but not limited to exposure to noise, vibration, dust and other respiratory sensitizers, work with chemicals and other substances hazardous to health, manual handling and repetitive tasks and other ergonomic issues.

“We recognise the synergy between health and work and address this holistically by focusing on protecting people from workplace health risks, managing the health of workers and promoting healthy lifestyle choices.”

Such is our commitment to improving the health of the construction industry that we as a business engage in initiatives to promote health, wellbeing and general awareness and we have historically cascaded to our projects in the form of the following:

We are always seeking new and exciting ways to improve on the above and equally embrace initiatives from our larger Main Contracting friends.

Safety is paramount for every one of our projects and is at the forefront of our minds in all that we do – everyone deserves to go home safe and sound at the end of the day.

Our head of HSEQ, Ben Hodsoll, is responsible for implementing and maintaining Environmental, Health and Safety management systems across the business and creating, modifying and approving EHS procedures and practices required for compliance and systematically maintaining and retaining EHS documentation. Managing safety records and information on training, self-inspections, audits, accident/incident investigations, employee medical data and safety monitoring. Whilst Richard leads the team; the responsibility for safety is however allotted to each and every person who comes onto a Charles Edward site.

We believe all accidents are preventable, so we do everything safely, and if it proves to not be we find a safer way.

To make sure we create an environment where all go home safe and healthy every day, we’ve developed a key approach that has 4 key features:

In the more practical sense Charles Edward approaches safety through a number of key mechanisms that have ensured we are at zero RIDDORS throughout our 6 year trading history, they are: Daily activity briefings coupled with weekly look heads, health and safety engagement and regular daily interface that allow controlled progress as per programme, ensuring safe delivery of quality installations with a constant focus of identifying future problems or risks, and managing them out collectively. This proven, positive process allows for clear, transparent reporting to our clients from which all parties benefit.