Health & Safety News
Lanes Group has launched a comprehensive series of internal newsletters called Shout about Safety as part of its strategy to support a strong safety culture across the company. The publications are targeted at staff in three key business areas – utilities, rail and general drainage services. Each is published once a quarter in a rolling…
Lanes Group is preparing to face the dragons in the finals of one of the water industry’s most prestigious innovation awards. SBWWI, the trade association for the UK water industry supply chain, has selected Lanes as a finalist in its annual Water Dragons Award for Innovation. Lanes submitted its What Good Looks Like initiative for…
Lanes Group has struck gold in a hat trick of safety awards for its work on the London Underground. The Lanes Rail Division has been given a Gold Award by London Underground (LU), in recognition of its continuous improvement in safety culture. Two Lanes site supervisors, Rob Wesley and Paul Bettis, received individual awards for…
Lanes Group has won the Construction News Award for Health and Safety Initiative of the Year 2013 after showing what judges praised as a “relentless focus” on improving health and safety. The company was presented with the highly prestigious award at a ceremony attended by 1,200 construction industry leaders on Thursday July 12. Lanes Group,…
Hot on the heels of British Standards accreditations for quality, environment and business continuity, Lanes for Drains’ super depot at Slough, has done it again. The team at the Berkshire hub, which handles one of the largest wastewater network service operations in the UK, has achieved BSI OHSAS 18001:2007, after demonstrating its adherence to occupational…
Lanes Group has been selected as a finalist in the Construction News Awards for the second year running for developing cartoons that show its engineers how to work safely. The initiative has earned the company, the UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, a place as a finalist in the Construction News…
Lanes for Drains engineers are using their heads when it comes to best practice for health and safety – because vital information that could help save their lives is now kept on their hats. Lanes, the UK’s largest independent specialist drainage company, has invested in an emergency ID system that works by storing personal health…
The Lanes Group has developed a simple yet highly innovative safety device that has the potential to transform working at height across the rail industry – significantly improving safety, productivity and staff satisfaction. The new rail safety strop is attached to the rail, acting as a restraint point, to stop staff working at height from entering unsafe areas and…
