Solaglass take health and safety award

ROTHERHAM-based window fixers Solaglas Windowcare are celebrating after scooping a prestigious award for a health and safety.

The company was singled out by parent company Saint-Gobain after making its vans safer.

The award was presented to maintenance services manager Kevin Thornhill and colleague Jon Cornforth on behalf of the Working and Heights project team.

The team came up with a simple but effective way to completely mitigate the risk of their engineers falling from height from vehicles. Previously, ladders were secured on top of vehicles and engineers had to climb a ladder at the back of the vehicle to then pull the ladders down.

Following an review and a successful pilot, the team are now rolling out a completely new layout, meaning that ladders will be safely stored within the vehicle. Not only does this completely cut out the risk of falling, but it also means the ladders are stored securely.

Managing director Ian Davy said: “As a business we have worked hard over recent years to develop a strong health and safety culture.

“Jon has driven this culture change by encouraging employees across the business to become involved and engaged with health and safety.

“The transformation has been remarkable and health and safety is now a mindset rather than an aside.

“Although the development is incredibly pleasing, we are aware that health and safety will always require investment and that we are only at the beginning of our journey.”

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