Health & Safety
As a large manufacturing operation employing over 140 members of staff, with on-site activities, we take our Health & Safety policy very seriously.Employees of all levels are given continuous on the job training and as a company we are regularly audited by an external third party. Our whole Health & Safety program is laid out in our ISO 9001 quality management manual.
Relevant Health & Safety Operations
A range of the health & safety concerns relevant to our business:- Manual handling
- Safe stacking of sawn timber and board materials
- Toxic woods
- Safe collection of wood waste: prevention of fire and explosion
- Occupational hygiene and health surveillance at industrial treatment plants
- COSHH and the woodworking industry
- Local exhaust ventilation & dust capture at machines
- Safe working at woodworking machines
- Circular saw benches: safe working practices
- Safe use of hand-fed planing machines
- Safe working practices at vertical spindle moulding machines
- Safety in the use of narrow band saws
- Safe use of power operated cross-cut saws
- Safe use of manually operated cross-cut saws
- Noise at woodworking machines
- Wood dust: hazards and precautions
- Selection of respiratory protective equipment suitable for use in paint shop
