Health & Safety News

Thames Water Health and Safety Awards 2014

07/05/2014

Lanes Group has been shortlisted in four out of seven categories in the Thames Water Excellence in Health and Safety Awards. The annual awards for Thames Water teams and their contractors are designed to encourage and celebrate best practice in health and safety across the company’s services. Lanes Group’s Utilities Division, which operates 75% of…

Lanes Group health and safety award winners

03/04/2014

Lanes Group has won two prestigious national awards in less than a week after the company developed an innovative picture-based guide that is transforming the way it sets workplace standards and trains staff. The company, the UK’s largest independent supplier of underground pipeline and utility services, first won the Health & Safety Excellence Award at…

Animal management – it’s all in a day’s work for Lanes

20/03/2014

The safe management of risks is of paramount concern for Lanes utility engineers – and that applies to bulls too! Drainage engineers from Lanes’ Utilities Division, based at Stafford, had to share a field with a herd of curious cattle, including a bull, which turned out to be a big softy. The team was surveying…

Care providers must tackle the hidden threats to reputation and service

04/02/2014

Care providers are becoming increasingly aware that they must tackle the hidden risks to their businesses that can be lurking out of site underground, says drainage experts Lanes Group. Often, in the past, maintenance of drainage and sewer systems has been treated as an afterthought, but there are signs this is changing, says the UK’s…

Lanes Group named as finalist in Construction News Specialist Awards

14/01/2014

Lanes Group has been named as a finalist in the prestigious Construction News Specialist Awards 2014. The company’s What Good Looks Like initiative has been shortlisted in the Health and Safety Excellence category. What Good Looks Like uses cartoon-style professional drawings to show operational teams precisely the standards and behaviours across a range of workplace…

Hard-hitting safety expert advises rail workers to ‘take 5’

13/01/2014

As part of the continuous initiative on improving safety behaviours, London Underground has called in one of the UK’s hardest-hitting health and safety experts to encourage their staff and contractors to ‘take 5’ to prevent accidents. London Underground’s asset performance stations premises delivery manager and her team arranged for Jason Anker, who was paralysed from…