WORKING AT HEIGHT
Death Of The Scaffold
As ‘falls from height’ remains one of the most common causes of fatilities and major injuries in the construction industry today, with more than five incidents every day, Managing Director of building cleaning and restoration company Thomann-Hanry, Mark Styles, calls the property industry to avoid scaffold when possible in 2015, especially when cleaning the exterior of buildings.
“In the building cleaning industry today, the use of scaffold is largely avoidable bringing huge benefits to the safety of workers who can instead work from the more secure environment of an enclosed cabin. With frequent incidents, the reassurance of cleaning a building without the use of scaffold is appealing to the workforce as well as the proprieter. We want to highlight this as we start 2015 and help re- enforce this message across the industry,” said Mark.
In addition to the safety implications, avoiding unsightly scaffold when exterior cleaning works take place ensures business can run as usual, minimising loss of trade, maximising profit potential and maintaining an ‘as normal’ functionality, whatever the
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business – especially beneficial to those in retail or hospitality.
Lack of scaffold also ensures vastly improved security during the operational period – a particular benefit to sectors where security is paramount such as banks or hotels.
Mark continued: “When considering an exterior clean, using a unique system that does not require the use of scaffold, such as the non- abrasive ‘facade gommage’ by Thomann-Hanry, is a huge benefit not only to the safety of workers but to the functioning business as works take place. Not only do we have a number of high profile banks and hotels as clients but interestingly many leading property companies – Land Securities, Grosvenor Estates to name a couple – have chosen the scaffold-free technique when cleaning their own buildings, which has to be the best endorsement ‘going scaffold-free’ can get.”
Earlier this year Thomann-Hanry cleaned the exterior of the head office of Grosvenor Estates in Mayfair and previously were commissioned to clean the headquarters of Land Securities. Located in a busy central London location at 5 The Strand, the work needed to create minimal
Thomann-Hanry, building cleaning experts and pioneers of the ‘facade gommage’ technique, reveal why they think that 2015 should see the end of scaffold in the building cleaning industry.
distruption while still being effective. Thomann-Hanry cleaned the building without the use of scaffold in just 14 days from start to finish, re-juvenating the 3000 square metres of the Pale Rose Marble and returning the whole building to its former glory.
Eamon Condon, Contract Administrator at Land Securities, said: “Restoration work does not come more high profile than this. Land Securities is the largest property company in the UK with a 40-metre-high ‘head office’ building on one of London’s busiest streets with retail tenants below, so when Thomann- Hanry approached us saying they could not only clean all the stone, allimunium and glazing from platforms but replace sealant and defective grout without scaffold as well, we were intrigued. Their systems performed exactly as they said they would and were a perfect fit with our image as an industry leader.”
So, Thomann-Hanry are sending out a message: if the industry leaders are going scaffold-free and it makes for safer working practices, in 2015 make sure for any exterior cleans you do too and help spread the word regarding the ‘death of the scaffold’.
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