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HSENI supports Waste Management Ambassadors The Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, Robert Kidd has praised the ongoing efforts to improve safety across the waste and recycling industry. Mr Kidd was speaking at the seventh annual presentation of Ambassador Awards organised by the Waste Industry Safety & Health Forum for Northern Ireland (WISHNI). The Ambassadors Awards Programme provides recognition of the safety management activity of WISHNI partner businesses within their own companies and with their subcontractors. Presenting awards to four local organisations in recognition of their work in promoting safety across the sector, Robert Kidd said: “I congratulate this year’s WISHNI Ambassadors for their important contributions in helping to improve safety standards across the industry.
sharing good practice across the industry. Today’s event has been a valuable contribution in achieving this aim. I look forward to seeing our new Ambassadors effect further positive change within the industry and I would support them in their efforts.”
Winners Winners of this year’s WISHNI Ambassadors Awards Programme are: McKinstry Skip Hire Limited McQuillan Environmental Limited ReCon Waste Management Limited Re-Gen Waste Limited Attending the WISHNI Awards (L-R) Jim King, WISHNI Chairperson, David Donnelly (Re-Gen Waste Limited), Damien Teague (McQuillan Environmental Ltd), Maria Gribben (Student Ambassador), Michael McLaughlin (McKinstry Skip Hire), Anne Coyle (ReCon Waste Management), and Robert Kidd, HSENI Chief Executive.
“It is encouraging to note the support offered by a range of organisations, all with the primary aim of promoting health and safety best practice across the waste and recycling industry. I fully support the efforts of the WISHNI forum in its work to promote and share knowledge and best practice.
“By working together and developing partnerships between government, industry and other stakeholders we can better manage and reduce the risks to Northern Ireland’s workers.” Jim King, Chairman of WISHNI added: “WISHNI has continued to provide support to the waste industry by developing and
Maria Gribben – Student Ambassador WISHNI brings together key stakeholders from across the waste and recycling sector to identify, devise and promote activities to improve health and safety standards across the industry. Following today’s awards ceremony, a health and safety seminar followed with presentations from local industry and other organisations associated with the waste and recycling industry.
Local Skip hire specialist adds a JCB Loadall to its fleet County Antrim-based skip hire specialist CM Skips has added a JCB 550-80 Wastemaster Loadall to the fleet of materials handling machinery operating at its site in Randalstown, near Ballymena.
On average, CM Skips recycles 90 per cent of all the waste that arrives at its Randalstown site and the company’s contractors recycle at least 80 per cent of all material that leaves the site.
The telehandler, supplied by JCB dealer, Dennison JCB, will play a key role in ensuring CM Skips’ on-site efficiency and throughput targets are met.
The JCB 550-80 is powered by JCB’s new EcoMAX engine to deliver optimum power and productivity, while the machine’s Wastemaster specification means that it is fitted with extra guarding and protection as well as uprated hydraulics – a factor that had a significant influence on CM Skips’ purchase decision.
It will be used to transfer incoming commercial and household waste from tipped skips to a dedicated sortation area where material is sorted into different recyclable waste streams and non-recyclable waste. The 550-80 then collects sorted material and delivers it to one of a number of dedicated storage bays at the site where waste is kept prior to being loaded – again using the 550-80 - onto one of CM Skips’ contractor partner’s delivery vehicles before being taken away for recycling.
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CM Skips’ director, Nigel McKee, said: ““The day-to-day efficiency of our site relies to a great extent on the performance of our handling machinery, so we need equipment that operates at full capacity even in the most arduous conditions. Machines in the JCB Wastemaster range are specifically tailored to meet the demands of tough
waste and recycling centre environments, which means their uptime is optimised.” The 550-80 Loadall benefits from a number of advanced features designed to ensure that the telehandler’s operator is comfortable – and, therefore, productive – throughout even the longest and most demanding shifts. For example, thanks to the 550-80’s cleverly packaged driveline and sloping bonnet, visibility is excellent, while, the operator cab itself is one of the largest around, boasting the lowest noise levels; excellent air flow, ventilation and demisting; optional air conditioning; fully adjustable steering column and an optional suspension seat.
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