Another Award for Xmo Strata
MARDEN, England (Business Wire EON) May 12, 2008 --
Xmo Strata, the sign installation and maintenance company which is
revolutionising its industry’s approach to
health and safety, has won an ‘exceptional
performance’ award from the BP/Bovis Global
Alliance.
Six year old Xmo Strata’s bulging display
cabinet now holds 11 customer health and safety awards –
believed to be a record in the high-risk sign industry; the latest comes
within weeks of the firm winning a similar award from ABB / Coteba /
ExxonMobil, and receiving an achievement award from the Royal Society
for the Prevention of Accidents.
Martin Rackley, the UK Health, Safety, Security and Environment Manager
for the Global Alliance, handed over the award at a ceremony at the
Holiday Inn, Milton Keynes, on the evening of April 26 –
and joked that the Kent-based firm had now won it so many times that “if
it had been the World Cup, they’d be allowed
to keep it”.
Sign installers and maintenance engineers work at height, and in
hazardous locations such as busy motorway fuel forecourts, and the
company has made strict adherence to health and safety a key aspect of
its operations. The firm – which works
nationwide - employs the most highly trained sign crews in the UK.
“Working unsafely puts the employee in peril –
and the employer, as well as the owner of the site on which the work is
being done, at risk of legal prosecution,”
said Xmo Strata Managing Director Steve Martin. “Customers
sometimes think that they are protected from the consequences of unsafe
working and that it is all the responsibility of the contractor –
in fact, they risk potential jail sentences in the event of serious
injury. The sign industry is particularly high risk and we protect our
employees, ourselves, and our customers by investing properly in
comprehensive training and procedures, and ensuring that every employee
fully understands the company’s dedication to
the subject.”
Mr Martin is the author of a whistle-blowing book on the sign industry –
Safety Quality Tricks and Lies – dirty
tricks in the British sign industry and 100 questions your sign company
doesn’t want you to ask!
Notes to editor:
Xmo Strata is one of the leading sign installation and maintenance firms
in the UK, built on an aspiration to provide the most highly qualified
sign engineers in the UK, adhering uncompromisingly to health and safety
regulations and best practice. The company focus is to provide a truly
nationwide specialist service, ensure a safe working environment for
all, offer a trusted, market leading service whilst delivering value to
customers at all times.
Xmo Strata specialises in large national roll-outs and offers complete
project management. The company offers a truly nationwide service, with
crews based throughout the UK, with a specialist service including
re-branding and maintenance of signage on petrol forecourts, retail
parks, high street stores and shopping malls nationwide.
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