Utilities News
Lanes Group plc has achieved Gold membership with Constructionline, giving customers enhanced assurance about safety, quality, and environmental management standards. The company, the UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, says achieving the enhanced membership reflected its determination to be a leader in its sector on quality, health, safety and environment. Lanes Group Health, Safety, Quality and…
Lanes Group plc has created 12 new jobs after winning a major contract to clean wet wells for Northumbrian Water. The drainage and utility solutions specialist has opened a new utility hub at its depot in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, to deliver the planned and reactive maintenance work. The three-year contract, with an optional two-year extension,…
Lanes Group plc has won a RoSPA Gold Health and Safety Award for the ninth year in a row which means it has retained its RoSPA Gold Medal for multiple consecutive awards. The UK’s largest independent drainage specialist could evidence significant health and safety initiatives during 2017, clearly demonstrating the continuous improvement expected by the…
Drainage engineers at Lanes Group plc are benefitting from extra safety protection when they work by themselves during unsociable hours. The company, the UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, has invested in Skyguard, a digital personal safety service. Drainage personnel can be issued with a Skyguard digital fob that detects if a person collapses or remains…
A wellbeing programme developed by Lanes Group plc is combining cutting-edge digital app technology with professional mental health practitioner support for the first time. The approach, praised by industry leaders and in line to win two national water industry awards, is helping transform the lives of employees faced with major personal problems. The wellbeing programme…
Operational workers at Lanes Utilities are being invited to sit in the ‘Golden Chair’ at senior management meetings to contribute to decision making on service delivery. A place at the weekly meetings, led by Lanes Utilities Director Andy Brierley, is reserved for a wastewater engineer or office-based operational colleague, to share ideas and gain better…
A wellbeing app and practitioner initiative designed to increase workplace happiness and developed by Lanes Group plc has won a water industry innovation award. The idea of combining digital app technology with professional wellbeing support for workforce colleagues who need it has won the 2018 Institute of Water South East Region Innovation Award. Judges at…
Anglian Water has awarded a contract to Lanes Group plc to deliver non-routine first-time resolution sewer unblocking services. The service gives Anglian Water assurance that it can draw on additional sewer cleaning capacity when and where it is needed most, for example in relation to fluctuations in demands on the sewer system. Lanes already provides…
