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In safe hands
BSIF Safety Excellence award win
A project by Brammer, Buck & Hickman’s sister company, and The Royal Mint to rationalise the use of safety gloves on site and ensure compatibility and safety for employees has been recognised for its success by the UK’s leading health & safety industry body.
The British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) aims to improve occupational safety and protect and develop the safety and environmental protection markets. As part of this, the organisation runs the annual BSIF Safety Awards and, in a ceremony at London’s ExCeL Centre in 2015, Brammer was announced as winner of the Safety Excellence category for its work with The Royal Mint in Llantrisant.
With 33 different types of gloves being used regularly on site by its employees, The Royal Mint was faced with an annual spend in this area of some £70,000. However, the range of products available did not necessarily mean that the most suitable gloves were being used for each task, with gloves often selected on the basis of familiarity over suitability.
Russell Gardiner, InsiteTM Manager based at The Royal Mint, explains the award-winning actions taken to heighten safety for employees: “Brammer joined forces with Ansell, a leading manufacturer of working gloves and a key partner to Buck & Hickman, to undertake a thorough audit of all areas of glove usage. Chemical analysis was undertaken to confirm the selection was correct, with the chosen gloves then extensively trialled in each working area before a final selection was made. We discovered that 85% of site requirements could be catered to by holding just six types of glove in stock, thanks to the new robust and measurable methodology of product selection.”
Gloves are now also distributed on site through the InvendTM service, an industrial vending system available through Buck & Hickman and Brammer, with each
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