Thanks to Anthony Potter, GESL Senior Consulting Engineer, for this practical health & safety tip. We now have a better and safer way of moving Heras Fencing around large sites. The Heras fencing sits between the front blade and the ditching bucket, fence clips and some of the feet in the bucket and the rest of the feet on top [...]
We are pleased to announce that our Commercial Director Mike Brown is going to be the IOD Climate Change & Sustainability Ambassador for Sussex. “I am delighted to have been offered the role of Climate Change & Sustainability Ambassador for IOD Sussex. One of the biggest challenges we are all going to have to face over the next few issues [...]
Anthony Potter, our Environmental Champion, kindly reminds us that today is Earth Day and has come up with some good suggestions that we may want to consider. So with it being Earth Day, are there things that we can all do at work to help with climate change? Things to consider going forward may be: Whether it be a company van, [...]
MESSAGE FROM GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL MD, GLYN EVANS: NEW STARTERS... "When I started the Geo-Environmental Services Ltd 25 years ago, I don’t think I could have imagined how the journey would pan out. During this time there have been lots of high and lots of lows, but we have built a great team of people who have risen to overcome any setbacks [...]
ACE - WELLBEING IN THE WORKPLACE SEMINAR Our Head of Rail, Road and Utilities Edward Newman will be speaking at the ACE’s Wellbeing in the Workplace webinar on Thursday 22 April at 12pm. This free webinar is part of ACE's new Insight webinar series and is hosted by ACE's Health & Safety team. The webinar, Wellbeing in the Workplace, [...]
Returning to the office after a long day onsite has its advantages... An evening view from the car park at our Hurstpierpoint office in West Sussex.
We are doing some materials testing on the Sea Wall at Northfleet, this requires us to use rope access trained staff to abseil down the side of the wall and take samples of concrete from the wall. You need both a head for heights and an understanding of the tide times!
From Mike Brown, Geo-Environmental Commercial Director (above) "We would like to welcome our newest starter Shannon Squires to the business. Shannon will be joining us in the role of Finance Manager and comes with five years finance administration experience. We look forward to welcoming her to the team." Working with Geo-Environmental Services Limited: If you work with Geo-Environmental you [...]
It is worth looking at this story in the AGS Magazine regarding PI (Professional Indemnity) Insurance. If you are going to be renewing later on this year you need to speak to your brokers and start planning in advance. It seems that there is no immediate end in site to the hard insurance market that we are in so we [...]
A new year and the first audit of the year. We had a site audit by video conference with the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS). This was a new experience but seemed to work pretty well. Ultimately if audit by video conference becomes the norm it will cut out a lot of mileage and ultimately reduce CO2. Related post: https://www.gesl.net/2020/05/08/geo-environmental-considerate-constructors-scheme/ To [...]
