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Similar to other safety critical industries, construction is highly regulated, and companies are required to have solid Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE) systems in place. However, the sector is quite unique in the challenges it faces in applying these systems to deliver safe working practices with minimal incidents.

With the deployment of contracted personnel across the entire supply chain, tight schedules and limited budgets have meant that the construction industry has one of the highest accident rates by sector despite thorough Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) procedures and good use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Construction companies are increasingly aware of the need to manage their own staff as well as subcontractor personnel associated with their projects. A duty of care exists to ensure work is carried out safely by their own employees and the subcontractors and that all personnel are fully aware of all HSE-related requirements. Recognizing that the industry is highly regulated by safety-related legislation, which is required and important to comply with, we must recognize that it is not enough to avoid accidents from happening.

A strong, and firmly anchored safety culture in an organization is essential for creating a safe work environment, and could be reinforced by considering the following aspects:

1. An organization's leadership should apply solid HSE ambitions and goals from planning through to completion of a project.
2. Ensuring that individuals have sufficient understanding of the importance of HSE at their workplace and that they know their own responsibility to keep themselves and their colleagues safe.
3. HSE should be an important element of any tender process, with suppliers required to demonstrate their compliance with HSE requirements, regulations and audits carried out on their health and safety documentation. The suppliers' safety culture, HSE performance, risk assessments, safety-training and competence programmes should all be taken into consideration.

Whether supplying fast-moving consumer goods or highly engineered devices to original equipment manufacturers, the pressure to deliver products faster, safer and more efficiently is ever present for manufacturers. Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE), operations and maintenance share data and communicate information to ensure they are compliant with environmental and safety regulations, permits, policies and procedures. When this collaboration breaks down, it can result in production shutdowns due to quality defects, unplanned maintenance, or incidents.

Training and enhanced use of technology can be applied to solve this. The digitalization of processes, procedures and communication gives manufacturers the opportunity to utilize advanced manufacturing of automation capabilities and technology throughout the product lifecycle, improving quality, throughput and of course safety.

Our footprint and client list ensure we keep up to date with changing local and global requirements and practical and digital trends in protecting workers, the environment and the manufacturing and production plants.

With digital and practical solutions, we help you keep your employees safe and healthy, reduce your impact on the environment, and identify ways to continuously improve operational efficiency. Our solutions help you manage your regulatory requirements and meet or exceed international environmental and safety standards.

We have delivered safety training to the aviation industry for many years. Specializing in underwater egress/escape training, dinghy drills, firefighting, the effects of smoke, and first aid, we deliver training solutions for flight crews of both fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

While we offer ready-made training packages suitable for aircrew, many of our customers ask us to develop bespoke training solutions, focusing on the emergency equipment their teams will be required to operate in the field, delivering added elements of realism into the courses building better trained and more confident crews.

Our training facilities have aircraft simulators which can be configured to replicate the most common aircraft types and can emulate the varying size, shape and operating mechanisms of aircraft exits. We have experience in delivering recurrent training to many organizations from a variety of sectors, including oil and gas helicopter operators, search and rescue, private charter and fixed wing operators.