NASC WINS ‘BEST HEALTH & SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION’ AT SHE AWARDS

[ RUN IN CONJUNCTION with the long-established British Safety Industry Federation Awards by Western Business Media Limited – publishers of Health Safety Matters and HSM Magazine – the SHE Awards ‘celebrate innovation and achievements in the British health and safety industry’.

The 550-strong attended awards ceremony was billed as ‘promoting the importance of innovation and underlining the highest standards of excellence within occupational safety and health’.

NASC health and safety manager Steve Kearney entered the UK’s longest standing scaffolding trade body in the category for Best Health & Safety in Construction for its positive work publishing industry standard-setting technical and core safety guidance notes such as:

• TG20:21 Good Practice Guide for Tube & Fitting

• Scaffolding

• SG4:22 Preventing Falls in Scaffolding Operations

• SG6:22 Management of Manual Handling in the

• Scaffolding Industry.

The work of the NASC and its 480-plus member companies in supporting health and safety best practice was also singled out – creating access to £280,000 of training grants, publishing over 100 toolbox talks, granting SSIP accreditation and offering specialist advice on health and safety, technical matters, employment, net zero, taxation, legal issues, contractual issues, credit checks and debt recovery, to name but some from the award entry application.

Speaking about the award win, acting NASC managing director Dave Mosley said: “It’s absolutely fantastic for the NASC to win this award. Championing health and safety within the scaffolding and wider construction sector is our whole raison d’être and it’s marvellous to get recognition for the efforts of the hard-working NASC staff, working parties, committees and scaffold sector experts that make this fine organisation what it is.”

Steve Kearney added: “The NASC works tirelessly throughout the year to produce standard-setting health and safety, technical, contractual, environmental and other such guidance for its members and the whole construction industry. Our guidance helps to keep people safe, it’s great that this has been acknowledged by the wider health and safety industry. The work matters. It’s nice for that to be acknowledged by the health and safety industry.”

The NASC saw off competition from Jarvis Contracting and the Stockport Homes Group to take the title in Best Health & Safety in Construction. q