NASC 2021 Safety Report Front Page
UKSSH and Ashton Scaffolding were delighted when a photograph of their project at Ashton House in Bristol was chosen for the front cover of the NASC 2021 Safety Report. After all, the NASC would only choose a project that showcases “best practice” for one of their most important publications of the year.
The annual NASC Safety Report is based on information reported by all full contracting members. It is a mandatory membership requirement for all full contracting members to complete their annual accident returns to the NASC.
The Safety Reports confirm that using an NASC member for scaffolding projects will ensure a safer and more compliant scaffold than that provided by non-regulated scaffolding companies. UKSSH’s commitment to delivering the highest safety standards begins with the equipment it supplies and continues with advising on safe systems of work that meet the highest standards of the offshore oil industry and Network Rail.
UKSSH has strict protocols to ensure that it only stocks genuine Haki Access Systems.
Using only genuine Haki components is important for peace of mind, important for safety and important if you want to meet the highest compliance requirements.
Every component that carries the Haki name has been designed to deliver maximum safety and productivity, has been manufactured from the very best materials and tested to ensure its integrity. That’s why every Haki component carries a unique identification mark to provide complete traceability.
Legislation places an overriding burden on scaffold companies to prove that they have done everything reasonably possible to ensure that their designs are robust and the components they use are fit for purpose. Given this imperative, supplying only genuine Haki components provides not only traceability, but the peace of mind that each component has been manufactured to the highest standards.
In a world that is becoming ever more litigious it is more and more important that scaffold companies have an audit trail to demonstrate that their stock has been manufactured to the highest standards and that the risk of failure has been minimised. So, the next time you are considering hiring access systems, just ask yourself one or two pertinent questions:
- Do I know enough about where the scaffolding was sourced from?
- Am I confident that the product’s design is really fit for purpose?
- Are the components precision made so that they fit together properly and easily into each other all the way through the project (remember, if scaffold is 1° out of plumb it reduces the load bearing capacity by 10%!)
- Does scaffold come with a customer support package that includes a proper manual and a training facility?
- Is the scaffold designed to meet performance criteria or simply copied to “look the part”? In short, you can rely on UKSSH to support your efforts to be fully compliant with CDM.