Largest ever tank takes green route to Dublin Airport
Balfour Beatty is committed to making all its operations as green as possible.
This includes all construction activities from manufacture through to installation
all to the highest level of safety. Loading and unloading the nested sections of
pipe using forklift trucks and on-site mechanical lifting equipment has completely
avoided the need for people to work from truck beds or anywhere at height - a
major plus for Brian Hume, the Northern & Southern Divisions safety manager
of Balfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering.
“The Health & Safety Executive in the UK started running a ‘falls from vehicles’
campaign at the end of 2007 which we are very keen to promote and has
produced case studies to illustrate our experience in this area,” he says. “The
most effective way to avoid accidents is not to have people working on and off
vehicles in the first place and to reduce the number of loads, both of which
Tubosider has achieved here.”