Health and Safety During COVID-19

Health & Safety has never been so important. Even taking the new rules and regulations into account, there’s the ever-present fear of what happens if someone gets COVID-19. Not only does COVID-19 put your individual staff at risk, but it can also mean closing entire sites – like the Bristol concrete plant Balfour Beatty recently…

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Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?

With the industry slowly starting to get back up to speed, it’s becoming a new balancing act between demands for maximum productivity (to make up for the lockdown slowdown) and demands for proper safety and social distance procedures. Safety guidelines are changing on a near-daily basis nowadays, and there’s always new rules about how close…

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IT’S ALL ABOUT THE JOURNEY – WHY YOU NEED A SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT PARTNER

Diggers on site

One of the questions people often ask is simply “why do I need a specialist recruitment provider?” After all, there are a wealth of generalist recruitment agencies out there, with mountains of CVs to sift through. They’re standardised, they’re often automated, and they’re one-size-fits-all. The issue is that in this industry, projects aren’t one-size-fits-all. Every…

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About Mark Parr

Mark Parr Custodian People

I’ve worked in the construction industry since leaving school – which is more years than I care to mention! Through my time I’ve experienced a broad scope of the construction and civil engineering trades, from landscaping, dredging and drainage to plant operation, labour management and site supervision. I’ve worked with companies large and small (as…

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