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Fastflow Group setting new safety records

The North East based Fastflow Group, which operates in gas and water pipeline and property maintenance sectors, has set a new record for safe working.

Its three divisions have, for the first time, clocked up more than three million working hours without a lost time accident.

With up to 1,000 people, including sub-contractors, working during busy periods, the group has placed huge importance on safe working. And the result has been 3.3 million working hours without a lost time incident.

Chief Executive, Neil Armstrong, said: “We have put a lot of effort into instilling the importance of safety in the workforce. Their own wellbeing and that of the communities and environments in which they work are paramount.

“Much of what we do has an element of risk and so we have to do everything possible to minimise this. I am delighted to see that these efforts are paying dividends but just because the results are encouraging, we will not be lowering our guard.”

The top performing division is Oxfordshire based DW Support Services (DWSS), which provides planned and responsive maintenance and repairs to almost 200,000 homes across the south of the UK. Here there have been 1.6 million safe hours worked.

From its Warrington base, Fastflow Energy Services (FES) which carries out specialist, high pressure gas diversion and installation works throughout the country, has clocked up 1.2 million safe hours.

Fastflow Pipeline Services (FPS), which operates out of the Washington head office and provides water management across networks in North East England and Scotland, has almost half a million of safe working hours.

The last lost time accident – at FPS – involved a minor foot injury which required just one day’s absence from work.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Paul Dobbie .