To mark National Engineering Day, we asked one of our Directors, Lloyd Gardener, to reflect on his engineering career and his path from apprentice to business owner.
At RSP UK, we understand that customer confidence is essential to our success, and to the success of making suction excavation a mainstream practice on sites across the country. That's why we were really proud to be accredited with ISO Occupational Health and Safety Management System (ISO 45001), ISO Quality Management System (ISO 9001), and ISO Environmental Management System (ISO 14001) earlier this year.
As a businessman you are forced to carry out a cost-benefit analysis again and again. At the latest in the annual financial statement, you notice one figure in particular that usually remains hidden and then you ask yourself how did these costs occur and why is this so? When you take a closer look, it is often for costs for fuel, wear parts and the highest costs of all are those for personnel.
Suction jobs can be very easy to get if your desired customers know what you have to offer. I have summarized in 9 simple points on how your desired customers hear and see who you are.
As soon as technical equipment is used, then the directives on health and safety at work must be complied with. If this is not the case, serious accidents and injuries may quickly result. We have all experienced this: There is often a hectic rush and deadline stress on the construction site, because the ordering party is making pressure. Sometimes even several jobs must be finished on the same day, the machine operator then tends to ignore the necessary personal protective equipment, to say nothing of properly securing the site where suction work will take place.