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‘Team Up for Safety’

Tandem’s ‘Team Up for Safety’ Initiative has been developed to encourage a safe, collaborative working environment on our construction sites where all personnel are encouraged to engage in continually improving our approach to Safety Management.

The key components of ‘Team Up for Safety’ are:

• Integrated, multi-disciplined ‘Safety Action Team’
• Worker engagement in site walkdowns
• 100% tracking of Safety Observations to closure
• Buddy system for new starts on site
• ‘Safety Days’ to celebrate project achievements and give focus to worker health and wellbeing
• ‘Take 5’ system for workers to assess all activities before commencing and after each break

Tandem Project Management is proud to have partnered with the CIF for Construction Safety Week 2018 and is delighted to have been actively involved in promoting industry best standards. The objective of Safety Week was to continue to highlight the issues of health and safety in the Irish construction industry and to drive continual improvement.

We ran a series of events across our construction sites to mark CIF Construction Safety Week. The events included Tandem toolbox talks on CIF’s daily safety topics and an interactive ‘Safety in Numbers’ workshop. The aim of this workshop is to challenge attendees to think about how they view health and safety in the workplace and re-evaluate its importance from the individual and team perspective. Attendees were presented with a certificate on completion of the workshop. We also shared the daily topic posters across sites and on our social media platforms to raise awareness and promote Construction Safety Week to our employees and followers.

  

We were delighted to welcome a number of Transition Year students to our headquarters in Mahon last Friday 13^th April. The purpose of the visit was to give the students an insight into engineering as a potential career option.

We had a packed agenda for the visit that included a screening of the excellent ‘Dream Big’ film , a documentary that showcases how engineers push the limits of innovation in unexpected and amazing ways. This was followed by presentations from representatives of our engineering departments covering Process, Mechanical, HVAC, Electrical & Instrumentation, and Civil & Structural design. This gave the students a good insight into the diverse nature of engineering design, and the many career opportunities it offers.

One of our Senior Project Managers described how a full life-cycle EPCMV (Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management and Validation) project is initiated and executed, and a timelapse video from a recent project was shown to give the students a flavour of the construction phase.

Finally, our undergraduate work-placement students from University College Cork and the Cork Institute of Technology were on hand to give presentations on their chosen college courses and their experiences in Tandem’s work-placement programme.

All-in-all it was a great day for all involved. We hope the students enjoyed their experience and are inspired to pursue a future career in engineering with Tandem Project Management!

Following on from a very successful prize draw in January to raise much needed funds for Down Syndrome Ireland (Cork branch), Tandem Project Management were delighted to recently present Karen O’ Sullivan and Meghan O’ Halloran with a cheque for €2610. This brings the total money raised by Tandem Project Management for Down Syndrome Cork to over €12,000.

The main aim for Down Syndrome Ireland (Cork)  as a branch is to provide support and resources, to encourage active participation in the community, to foster positive attitudes and most importantly to help individuals with Down syndrome reach their full potential.

Again, we would like to thank our sponsors, our ticket sellers, ticket purchasers and donors for helping to make this event the success that it was.

July 2016

Tandem held a ‘Health and Wellbeing’ event in conjunction with Sanofi Waterford. There were over 100 attendees from Sanofi, Tandem, Radley Engineering, STS, Daldrop and Robert Quinn.

The audience was addressed by Liam Whitnell (Sanofi), Tim Mulhall (Tandem) and keynote speakers Shane O’Sullivan, Waterford Senior Hurler and Owner of Inspiring Excellence and Linda Thorpe from Mental Health Ireland.

The theme of the event was ‘Minding your Mental Health’. The presentations from the keynote speakers were well received and there was excellent interaction with the audiences during the Questions and Answers session.