Archive for 'Responsibility'

Making Sheet Piling Installation Safer and Quicker

MGF Drivesafe is an alternative to traditional piling caps that attaches to excavator quick coupler mechanisms and is the latest innovation from the MGF Research and Development Team.
Our approach to product development is based on interpreting our customer’s feedback into practical safety solutions to use around excavations. Our customers told us that traditional methods of installing sheet piling could sometimes prove unsafe, particularly when excavator buckets detach from excavators whilst driving sheet piling in to the ground.
We developed ...

On: 11 Aug, 2016 By: MGF

Helping Great Britain Work Well

Helping Great Britain Work Well: A new health and safety system strategy
MGF are pleased to announce that we are supporting the HSE to deliver their new health and safety system strategy ‘Helping Great Britain Work Well’.
Some 23 million working days are lost each year due to workplace ill health. Individuals, employers and the state incur an annual cost of around £9 billion from ill health due to today’s working conditions and reducing workplace ill health is a must ...

On: 23 Jun, 2016 By: MGF

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Sheet Piling Safe Installation Guidance Pre-Drive Method

Our latest MGF digital animation is now available for customers to view online. The Sheet Piling Safe Installation Guidance Pre-Drive Method 3D animation has been produced in-house at MGF by our Research and Development Team.
As part of our continued safe system of work guidance for assembly and installation of our MGF products this animation demonstrates the Pre-Drive methodology of installing trench sheet piles and is the second in the series of animations detailing the commonly adopted approaches to installing these ...

On: 17 Jun, 2016 By: MGF

A Survivors Guide to the Construction Industry Event

MGF will continue our support of the HSE’s Working Well Together (WWT) campaign by supporting their ‘A Survivors Guide to the Construction Industry’ event at the Bridgwater College Construction Skills Centre in Bridgwater, Somerset later this month.
To be held on Tuesday 21st June 2016 from 8.30am to 12.30pm, the event is one of a series of free partnership events run by the construction industry for the construction industry. The aim of the event is to raise awareness of the key health and ...

On: 3 Jun, 2016 By: MGF

MGF Win RoSPA Gold Award for Third Consecutive Year

For the third year in a row MGF are delighted to be amongst the winners in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2016, collecting a further Gold Award.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) run the prestigious annual awards scheme and MGF will be presented with our Gold Award during a ceremony at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, on 13th July 2016.
As the UK’s family safety charity, RoSPA’s mission to save lives and reduce injuries ...

On: 27 Apr, 2016 By: MGF

Sheet Piling Safe Installation Guide Push and Dig Method – Watch Our Latest 3D Animation

Our latest MGF digital animation is now available to view online. The Sheet Piling Safe Installation Guide Push and Dig Method 3D animation has been produced in-house at MGF by our Research and Development Team as part of our continued Safe System of Work Guidance for assembly and installation of our MGF products.
The new animation is the first in a series of three videos detailing the commonly adopted methods of installing trench sheets and sheet piles. Later animations in ...

On: 12 Apr, 2016 By: MGF

MGF’s Engineering Training Scheme is Approved by the ICE

MGF are pleased to announce that our Company Approved Training Scheme for Membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has recently been approved for a second time.

On: 4 Mar, 2016 By: MGF

BIM View: Making Sense of Digital

MGF’s Engineering Director, Steve Hesketh, has written his latest Viewpoint Column for the New Civil Engineer Magazine February Edition and in this issue is addressing the topics of the digital revolution and its impact on construction and building information modelling (BIM).

On: 28 Jan, 2016 By: MGF