Optimum Maintenance Systems Ltd (OMS), formerly trading as Olympic Group, has achieved re-accreditation under the increasingly popular SAFEcontractor programme. The SAFEcontractor programme has been designed to help industry improve its safety record. It recognises very high standards of health and safety practice amongst UK contractors.

The company’s original application for SAFEcontractor accreditation was driven by the need to demonstrate the importance it placed on having a uniform standard of safety across its business. Under the SAFEcontractor system, businesses undergo a vetting process, which examines health and safety procedures and their track record for safe practice.

The Watford-based firm is a rapidly growing air conditioning service and chiller maintenance specialist within the London and South-East region. OMS branch manager Ray Miller believes that SAFEcontractor accreditation has already enhanced the company’s ability to attract new contracts.

SAFEcontractor is operated by international safety, health and environmental risk management specialists, the National Britannia Group. The system is applicable to most sectors although it is particularly relevant to food manufacture, property, facilities management, retail and leisure sectors, all of which are big users of contract services.

James Ostler, Managing Director of Information Service at National Britannia has said, "Major organisations can no longer run the risk of employing contractors who are not able to prove that they have sound health and safety policies".

"More companies need to understand the importance of adopting good risk management in the way that OMS has done. The firm’s high standard has set an example, which hopefully will be followed by other companies within the sector. "

Those companies meeting the high standard are included on a database, which is accessible to registered users only via a website, www.safecontractor.com.

Employer-organisations who sign up to the scheme can access the database, which enables them to vet potential contractors before they even set foot on site. These employers agree that, as users of the scheme, they will engage only those who have received accreditation.

Over eighty major nation-wide businesses, from several key sectors, have signed up to use the scheme when selecting contractors for services such as building, cleaning, maintenance, refurbishment or electrical and mechanical work.

Email: sarah@sarahpugh.co.uk

News Archives - by Weeks
2007 (weeks)
1-2
3-4
5-6
7-8
9-10
11-12
13-14
15-16
17-18
19-20
21-22
23-24
25-26
27-28
29-30
31-32
33-34
35-36
37-38
39-40
41-42
43-44
45-46
47-48
49-50
51-52

Arundel Jones Associates Ltd
Hill Farm, Linton Hill, Maidstone, Kent ME17 4AL
Tel : 01622 745333
news@buildingdesign.co.uk

Registered in England and Wales No. 07334149
 

News Categories : Air Conditioning Systems Chilled Beams Splits Portable Air Conditioning Air Handling Units Chillers Air Water Cooled Dry Coolers and Cooling Towers Fan Coils Heat Pumps Heat Recovery Heat Exchangers Maintenance Commissioning Consultants Packaged Air Conditioning Split Systems VRV VRF Condensers