JWCI Claim Prestigious Principal Contractor Spot for Cheadle Hulme Ecolab Project

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 places legal duties on those involved in construction projects ensuring that rules, regulations and safety procedures are carried out at all times. This ensures the safety of all site contractors, visitors and employees. The appointment of a Principal Contractor is vital and a task not to be taken lightly.

JWCI recently worked on the Cheadle Hulme site for Ecolab, which, following the merger with Nalco meant the site was being decommissioned and equipment relocated to the larger Nalco/Ecolab site at Northwich in Cheshire. The strip-out project began in 2013 and was completed in the summer of 2014. 

JWCI were appointed as Principal Contractor on the Cheadle Hulme project. A brief overview of the tasks associated with the Principal Contractor role are listed below:

• 1) Plan, manage and monitor construction phase in liaison with all contractors
• 2) Prepare, develop and implement a written plan and site rules (Initial plan completed before the construction phase begins)
• 3) Give contractors relevant parts of the plan
• 4) Make sure suitable welfare facilities are provided from the start and maintained throughout the construction phase
• 5) Check competence of all appointees
• 6) Ensure all workers have site inductions and any further information and training needed for the work
• 7) Consult with the workers
• 8) Liaise with CDM co-ordinator regarding ongoing design
• 9) Secure the site

In addition Principal contractors are responsible for all safety permit issues, health and safety site paperwork and displays, first aid facilities and putting in to place emergency procedures. With JWCI's many years of experience in the industry this proved to be a suitable challenge to which they easily rose. 

Kerry Callear, Health & Safety Director at JWCI said of the project "We have a very good working relationship with Ecolab built over many years in the industry. To be recognised for our commitment to ensuring the highest level of health, safety and workmanship on our sites was a great achievement, reflected in this role."

If you would like to find out more about Process plant strip-out, plant refit, or process plant design and manufacture, including appointing principal contractors please contact JWCI on 01889 507177.

High standards and commitment to quality and service in engineering

JWCI Safe Contractor and ISO 9001 Accreditations renewed!

We are please to announce we have once again achieved the standards required for SafeContractor and ISO 9001 accreditation.

The ISO 9001 Accreditation is all about maintaining a quality-led philosophy - this is exactly why ISO 9001 is stipulated within tenders both in the UK and abroad.

"The ISO 9001 standard is based on a number of quality management principles including a strong customer focus, the motivation and implication of top management, the process approach and continual improvement. Using ISO 9001 helps ensure that customers get consistent, good quality products and services." Extract taken from the ISO website. 

SafeContractor is another industry standard we felt it was important to achieve and maintain. If you are a contractor or service supplier and want to demonstrate your health and safety competence to new and existing clients, then SafeContractor is key. 

If you would like to discuss any process engineering projects please call JWCI on 01889 507 177 or visit our website for more details.

www.jwciltd.com

For more details on ISO Certifications please visit 

www.iso.org

For more details on the SafeContractor Scheme visit:

www.safecontractor.com

JWCI LTD spend a whirlwind 10 days in Northern Ireland for Ecolab GMBH

Every little helps as JWCI travels across to Belfast to install a new stainless steel hygienic conveyor cleaning system for the well known company Diageo (Manufacturer’s of Bailey’s Irish Cream) on behalf of ECOLAB GmBH.

A team of three experienced JWCI engineers set off in the early hours of a Wednesday morning so that they could arrive on site by Thursday for the site induction and setting up of a safe working environment. Later that day the team met with the customer to walk through their ideas of how they wanted the job installing ready for an early start Friday morning.

The JWCI team began work installing the pipe work and spray nozzles onto the conveyors knowing they had a restricted amount of time to get the job completed, within a couple of days the team realised that if they were to get this time consuming project completed to their usual high standards, and on time for commissioning, they would put in a few more hours and this is exactly what they did. This ensured the customer would not have any potentially costly down time on production.

By Friday night the team had fully installed the conveyor system meaning that Saturday morning ECOLAB could start commissioning the conveyor as planned. When ECOLAB commissioning engineers arrived on site the JWCI team walked them through the finished system and they were more than pleased with what we had achieved. The system was commissioned and with zero faults or issues the JWCI team had successfully achieved its goals of making both ECOLAB and Diageo very happy customers.

Customer satisfaction is the main aim of JWCI and once again they achieved this by working to their very high standards and using their expertise to get the job done under such high pressure.

ECOLAB's Regional Engineering Manager of UK & IRELAND, Sean Dunne commented, "We are very happy. Professional guys- Lee, Tom and Dan were very good, delivering on time and high quality work".

If you would like to talk to JWCI about your next process plant project please call Kerry on 01889 507177 or visit our website www.jwciltd.com.