In November 2023, ARCA introduced two new accolades to celebrate the achievements of its members. To be nominated for these prestigious awards, companies must have maintained the Platinum Gold Site Audit Award for both 5 and 10 consecutive years. Econ Group is proud to have been awarded the 2024 Gold Award for consistent high performance on site.
This award recognizes those who have consistently maintained high standards of safety and compliance on their work sites. We would like to congratulate all those involved in not only maintaining our standards of safety on site but also for playing your part, which has resulted in Econ Group being awarded this prestigious accolade and recognized throughout the industry.
The criteria for this award are comprehensive:
• Achieving audit grades, A to C in Programmed Audits, with an average of at least a B grade.
• Maintaining this standard for 2 consecutive membership years.
• Having no prohibition notices or prosecutions for asbestos work during the qualifying period.
• For Programmed Audits on "non-live" works, achieving a grade of A or B
"Achieving the standards to receive the Gold Site Audit Award is hard enough but continuously achieving them over a 5 and then 10-year period is something that deserves special recognition”
Juliette Church, Site Audit Manager for ARCA.
In addition to the platinum gold award, we have also been awarded the ‘Gold Training Award’. This award is given only to ARCA members that have met the following criteria:
• Undertaken training with ARCA via Supervisors and Operatives (new, refresher or TNA) courses.
• Had a minimum of 8 delegates on any of the above courses.
• Achieved an average scoring of 92.5% across all delegates trained.
This is a considerable achievement and is testament to all staff that have attained a higher-than-average score in training sessions to achieve this award.
“We were impressed with the approach used by you operation team to carry out the works both professional and diligently. Econ were very accommodating to meet our needs from the initial presentations prepared on strategy to mitigate risks and throughout execution of the works and keeping us fully informed and giving us the confidence we needed. The approach of Econ Site supervisors and visiting managers through to operatives on site was always of a high standard and good-natured and we are pleased to give credit where it is due. On site initiatives by the team from demonstrations /videos of emergency procedures when working in asbestos enclosures and working with consistent site uniforms contributed to the site achieving a Kier ‘Blue’ for best practice and working above standards. This was an excellent example of collaborative working and a joint approach to promptly overcome some of the challenges with asbestos and how best to deal with this along with working near challenging neighbours’ properties, the school and the church.”
