This week has been a week of two halves: site compliance inspections and an ISO client maintenance audit, alongside client procedure and system development, report writing, and advancing our presentation materials for the forthcoming Building Safety Act 2022 course for duty holders.
Monday began in central London with a site compliance inspection on both a heritage building and a new build project. Back at base, our focus turned to vital housekeeping tasks: developing client systems and producing incident follow-up reports to identify opportunities for improving operations and procedures.
Tuesday was another site day, spent supporting the team in developing processes and procedures for a new build project where the foundations are now underway. We also chaired a quarterly top management meeting for a client, reinforcing our ongoing role in shaping process, system, and operational guidance at the highest level.
Wednesday returned us to heritage inspections, this time closer to home in Southampton. We followed up with our weekly CDM guidance discussions with client teams across several projects and continued drafting reports, including findings from recent Procore site use audits. A welcome highlight was catching up over lunch with a client, hearing firsthand how the Bury Cross Garage is performing now it is fully occupied and operational.
Thursday featured another heritage compliance inspection for a valued client, amendments to Safe Systems of Work documents for a National Grid project, final touches to the Procore report, and essential administrative duties.
Friday closed the week with an ISO9001, 14001, and 45001 maintenance audit at a client’s office, project planning work, and a welcomed impromptu visit to HQ from two friends and associates. Over coffee, the conversation ranged from putting the world to rights to advancing plans for our upcoming Building Safety Act and Behavioural-Based Safety courses.
So, what have we learned? Running a business is brilliant. It comes with challenges, but it is those challenges, internal and external, that make the journey exciting. Witnessing our clients’ teams develop and being part of that journey is not only rewarding but is the very drive behind our business. It isn’t a cliché when we say our motivation comes from our clients themselves. They are the inspiration behind our continual drive to innovate, to find better ways of serving them, and to provide real value. Increasingly, this has included developing practical ways of capturing compliance evidence through dedicated Monday.com forms and boards, while also using the platform to track project management actions and tasks with greater clarity and accountability.
