TECHNICAL TRAINING
FEATURE SPONSOR
HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
Leading independent UK ecology consultants Thomson Ecology have become one of only a handful of accredited ROLO trainers based in the South East. The ROLO (Register of Land-Based Operatives) Health Safety and Environmental Awareness Course has been designed to raise the standards of health and safety and reduce the risks and accidents throughout land-based sectors. All Thomson Ecology staff are now
routinely ROLO trained. In fact, if you come from a land-based industry, such as ecology, landscape maintenance or construction, it is mandatory that you have passed ROLO in order to get a CSCS card.
VARIED AND INTERESTING
A team from Thomson Habitats and Thomson Ecology worked with Carillion Utilities on the Dudgeon onshore cable route, the longest in the UK - at 47km. The team of ROLO-trained staff were involved in a variety of tasks including…
• Walkover surveys and ecological gap analysis for bats, trees and water voles
• dedicated mapping services and the use of Thomson Ecology’s bespoke interactive Mapping service, TIM, to collate and share ecological project data
• Ecological assistance and advice throughout the project duration
• Clearance of hedgerows down to ground level along the entirety of the cable route, over a five week period
• Water vole mitigation works on ten ditches across the cable route, using the displacement methodology
• Extensive great crested newt (GCN) trapping and translocation for 19 metapopulations across 55km of GCN fencing
• Provision of watching briefs for ditch fluming and field access works over an eight week period
DESIGNED TO RAISE THE
STANDARDS OF HEALTH AND SAFETY AND REDUCE THE RISKS AND ACCIDENTS
VITAL IMPORTANCE
Estelle Spencer, who administers the ROLO scheme for Thomson Ecology, said: “The ROLO scheme is vitally important for ecology industry professionals and many related industries and is designed to ensure that the environments in which we operate are safe. The Dudgeon Windfarm case study is an excellent example of the sort of skills and tasks that ROLO is designed to test. The courses are all run from our head office in Guildford, Surrey and we can provide location-based training if we have a sufficient group of people involved.”
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