05 Aug 201
Contractor Health And Safety (CHAS) certification and accreditation award.
We have just been informed that Waterfall & O'Brien have met the criteria for CHAS (Contractor Health And Safety) certification & accreditation; paperwork etc is still to follow, but we have received the letter of approval.
Because we visit building, construction and industrial sites in the course of our duties and because we provide specialist services, we as a group are classed as 'contractors', Hence, before commencing work, we are often requested to complete a HSE questionnaire. In some instances we also provide HSE advice and monitoring services, therefore we felt it was important to be recognised for our contribution to the health & safety culture and obtain some recognition by obtaining government approved formal accreditation.
01 Aug 201
Waterfall & O'Brien (WOB) Website relaunched.
Waterfall & O'Briens' new web-site was launched this week. The new site uses an interactive database to modify the site on a daily basis and according to its needs and customer response.
This approach was taken because it allows the cumulative knowledge, expertise and facilities of the site to be combined into products that specifically answer a customers needs; Is my water suitable for drinking? Where can I get rid of my waste? etc. and the best bit is it integrates directly into the laboratory; providing testing regimes, methods, equipment, instructions, all on a live, interactive database that can keep pace with current thinking and legislation.
MD comment. 'We felt that this was such an important concept to integrate into our web-site that it influenced our selection process of Internet providers. It also meant that our IT team had to design the site from the inside out; what you see is only quarter of the total site and we've only done this for our testing services.'
'When a customer requests a quote, by completing two or three selection boxes, this inormation is combined with a number of databases to provide the cumulative knowledge about that product to our operators, enabling them to respond in a timely manner. It also provides us with the next step in our acceditation quest!'