Case Study: Tarmac

Tarmac are one the UK’s leading sustainable construction materials, road contracting and building products business.

They produce and supply a range of construction material comprising aggregates, asphalt, cement, lime, concrete, road contracting, building products and recycling services.

Safety Coaching have worked directly with the group training, competency and human resources team to assist in the enhancement of competency levels within their direct workforce.

Safety Coaching have assisted the Tarmac Group to enhance the competency of their teams by assisting in the following:

  • Played a pivotal supporting role in the development and delivery of their award winning apprenticeship scheme – the professional operator development programme (PODP)
  • Designed and delivered a range of training courses in relation to the Tarmac Health and Safety management system, such as risk assessment, contractor management, isolation and lock-out of machinery, behavioural safety techniques and a range of others
  • Delivery of a IOSH Working and Managing Safely for Mineral Products qualifications to their workforce
  • Delivery of over 200 management level vocational qualifications and developed an innovative SHE workshop to help evaluate candidates knowledge as part of the qualification
  • Enhanced the existing mobile plant operator scheme, including methodology, scheme rules and engagement with operators to provide a streamlined, more effective delivery
  • Delivery of a bespoke electronic learning system, which was fully interactive for all learners in relation to vocational qualifications at Levels 4 and 6 for the Extractive Industry

What Tarmac say about us

I approached Safety Coaching when we were looking to raise the bar for our mobile plant operators. They helped us create structure and detail to our new mobile plant training initiative. This has revolutionised our mobile plant assessment process that has increased the standards of our operators, increased productivity, reduced costs and minimised duplication.

Matt Gibbs

Operations Competency Manager

Tarmac Group

Some of the areas that Safety Coaching have helped us address are: Review, amend and map our assessment criteria to the National occupational standards; Write our scheme directives; Review our electronic health and safety questions / answers; Create a frequently asked questions document; Prepare our presentation for the HSE.

Matt Gibbs

Operations Competency Manager

Tarmac Group

Following on from our success with the mobile plant initiative I contacted Safety Coaching about a second project. For this project I gave them a brief overview of the concept which was to extract all the knowledge content from our competence qualifications and build electronic learning materials.

Matt Gibbs

Operations Competency Manager

Tarmac Group

Safety Coaching have enabled Tarmac's learners to receive the underpinning knowledge required to meet the criteria of the qualification via distance learning. The work they produced was truly exceptional and was exactly what was outlined in the project brief. This has reduced the time taken to deliver the qualification which has in turn increased our productivity. I highly recommend Safety Coaching for future projects within their area of expertise.

Matt Gibbs

Operations Competency Manager

Tarmac Group

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