{"id":52193,"date":"2019-02-07T10:46:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T10:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=52193"},"modified":"2019-02-07T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T10:46:06","slug":"eliminate-hav-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/eliminate-hav-syndrome\/52193\/","title":{"rendered":"How to eliminate HAV syndrome by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Heather Bryant,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balfourbeatty.com\/\"> Balfour Beatty\u2019s<\/a> Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability Director has revealed how the company intends to eliminate HAV syndrome across all sites by 2020<\/h2>\n<p>In an interview with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionmanagermagazine.com\/\">Construction Manager<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Bryant discussed how the traditional measures to tackle Hand Arm Vibration (HAV), primarily using the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/\"> Health &amp; Safety Executive\u2019s<\/a> exposure points system to ensure that workers exposed to the side-effects of Hand Arm Vibration are below a \u2018recommended level\u2019, is not the right approach for the industry to adopt in isolation.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the various methods in place across Balfour Beatty sites, Heather provides alternative approaches and solutions already in use by the company. This includes replacing the requirement to drill for the installation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/M&amp;E\">Mechanical and Electrical<\/a> (M&amp;E) elements with Unistrut channels into the underside of precast floor slabs.<\/p>\n<p>This easy switch eliminates the need to drill on site, removes dust exposure, whilst also resulting in an estimated 75% reduction in working at height. Combined, this activity also yielded a one day a week saving on the traditional M&amp;E programme of works.<\/p>\n<p>Through this approach, Balfour Beatty is already operating sites where drilling is now no longer in use. Applying this approach across Balfour Beatty\u2019s supply chain has enabled the company to engage with experts across the industry in identifying further opportunities to drive out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/bam-nuttall-to-eliminate-vibrating-tools\/43460\/\">Hand Arm Vibration in the construction industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Bryant, Balfour Beatty\u2019s Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability Director has revealed how the company intends to eliminate HAV syndrome across all sites by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[619,676,432,564],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[172945],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-balfour-beatty","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-health-safety","10":"tag-hse","11":"stakeholder_rel_tag-balfour-beatty"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to eliminate HAV syndrome by 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Heather Bryant, Balfour Beatty, has revealed how the company intends to eliminate HAV syndrome across all construction sites by 2020\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/eliminate-hav-syndrome\/52193\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to eliminate HAV syndrome by 2020\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Balfour Beatty\u2019s Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability Director discusses how Balfour Beatty intends to eliminate HAV syndrome across all sites\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/eliminate-hav-syndrome\/52193\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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