Health, Safety, and the Environment

Award winning Safety procedures

At McInerney, we have an integrated Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Management System which all of our subsidiaries work to. This management system meets the requirements of OHSAS 18001 and ISO14001 and, indeed, one of our subsidiaries, Hargreaves Contracting, is OHSAS 18001 accredited.

We have a target to achieve accreditation in our other subsidiaries in 2010.

The Health and Safety of our customers, subcontractors, residents, personnel and any stakeholder affected by our activities is of paramount importance to us.

The McInerney SHE function carries out regular inspections and audits of all our sites.

These inspections and audits are all performed electronically and allow us to analyse our performance on a ‘real time’ basis.

This system allows us to target our resources most effectively to ensure we are managing our SHE performance at its optimal level at all times.

We are extremely proactive in terms of SHE and our SHE function are quick to act on the results from any of our site interventions to ensure an issue doesn’t become an accident or incident, wherever possible.

We undertake an extensive training programme with our employees, including: office safety, environmental awareness, scaffold awareness, site waste management plans, the management system and traffic management. 

Where possible, we will liaise with local schools and colleges wherever we develop and the SHE function will give short talks to the students, aimed at their specific age group.

Many of our social housing contracts operate under the ‘Considerate Constructors’ scheme, this involves being audited by them.

This provides us and our stakeholders with the assurance that our sites are operating to a good external standard.

All of our sites have not only a CDM plan on them, as required by Statute, but we also have a Site Waste Management Plan on every site which ensures that we are dealing with our construction waste in a responsible manner which minimises the impact our activities have on the environment.

We are also currently working with a number of governmental organisations to undertake reviews of our resource efficiency.

We have won a British Safety Council ‘International Safety Award’ for the past two years and currently hold the ROSPA Silver Award. All of our subsidiaries are CHAS approved.