Construction
Services Specialists
ISG Totty Building - Competition winners promote key health & safety message at Green Primary School
Three pupils from Newall Green Primary
School in Wythenshawe are celebrating after taking top honours
in ISG Totty Building’s site safety competition. Siobhan
Merryfield, James Johnston and Becky Leigh are the envy of their
classmates after producing the winning designs for the poster
competition, which the contractor organised as part of its £830K
project to build a new extension to increase classroom capacity
at the school.
ISG Totty Building set the pupils the challenge of designing a
site safety poster highlighting the dangers posed by
construction sites, with the winning entries displayed across
the school. ISG Totty’s group health & safety advisor, Dr David
Resendez, led the judging panel and found the selection of the
eventual winners a difficult process. "The competition is
designed to make children actively think about what specific
dangers they may encounter around construction sites, and in
addition to the formal safety talks that we give in assembly, we
have found that by engaging pupils through a creative channel,
this important message really hits home.
"The standard of entries from Newall Green Primary School was
very high and choosing the individual winners was not an easy
task. Eventually we decided that Siobhan's poster should take
the top spot in the Reception Class category. James won the Year
3 category with his design, and Becky secured first place in the
Year 4 competition with her poster featuring the slogan ‘Keep
Safe At All Times’. All three posters will now take pride of
place around the site to reinforce our commitment to safety.”
The three pupils were presented with a framed copy of their
winning entries and £25 worth of vouchers by construction
industry ambassador Ivor Goodsite at a ceremony in front of the
entire school, where ISG Totty Building is currently on target
to complete the construction of a new single-storey extension by
August, which will provide accommodation for three additional
classrooms and a new staff room.
Email: nick.hann@isgplc.com