Page 5 - LMD Vacuum Excavation - Annual Review 2021/22

Making Motorways Safe
LMD has worked on motorway projects across the UK.
LMD has recently been working for one of the country’s leading motorway technology contractors to install LED lighting and illuminated signage.
Left-tip vacuum excavators are often favoured for motorway work. When required, they are able to tip their spoil over the barrier at the edge of the carriageway thereby ensuring the road surface remains clear of debris. The spoil is collected by a separate team ensuring the vacuum excavators are able to optimise productivity.
LMD has joined forces
with the Lighthouse Club charity. One of LMD’s vacuum excavators will carry a special Lighthouse Club livery throughout 2022. The aim is to promote the emotional, physical and financial wellbeing support provided by the charity to ill and injured construction workers and their families.
Mick Dysart is LMD Vacuum Excavation’s Managing Director:
‘The construction industry is far safer and less macho than when I started work over thirty years ago. However, we still have a poor health and safety record compared to many other sectors. I was shocked to learn, for example, that each year we lose 2.4 million working days through injury or illness, and that every single working day two workers in our sector take their own lives. We have to do something.
At LMD we take health, safety and wellbeing very seriously. All our vacuum excavators are FORS Gold-specified, and our drivers work to EU drivers’ hours regulations to avoid burn out. New trainees are not allowed to work unsupervised until they have completed our three month in-house induction programme leading to CPCS accreditation and new HGV drivers undertake a driving assessment by our own assessor. Two members of the LMD team are Mental Health First Aid qualified.
By its very nature, however, construction is primarily a
‘team game’ with multiple interfaces and complexity. That
is why it is critical that there is a ‘whole industry’ approach to construction safety and wellbeing. That is where the Lighthouse Club comes in, particularly with its focus on mental health awareness and training. I am proud to have the opportunity to support the work being undertaken by the Lighthouse Club including their ‘Help Inside the Hard Hat’ campaign. It’s an incredibly worthwhile cause and it’s also at the heart of what we aspire to as an organisation.’
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LMD’s new livery to support the Lighthouse Club