Mark Rycraft

Fitting Safety into Shops
Mark J Rycraft
Dip SCM Tech IOSH MBIFM AIEMA
Centre Manager
Middleton Grange Shopping Centre
Hartlepool
About me and Middleton Grange
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Retailers
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Where do we Start?
On Line Applications for all Contractors
Preliminaries
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Competence, Control, Communicate, Co-operate
Permit to Work
Permission to Work
Contractor Induction
Document approval
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Staff training
Tenant control
Contractor Vetting
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Contractor Monitoring
Approving Shopfits in a 40 Year old Building
• Retrospective regulatory application
• Application to Alter (Lease)
• Internal MG Forms
• Centre level approval
– Structural (Engineers)
– Sprinkler
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– Fire Safety Consultants
– Approved Inspectors
Contractor Vetting
There are 3 main elements to
the service.
Initial assessment,
compliance
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Shopping Centre Shopfit Guide
Regular checks
Tenant Inductions
Stop the tail wagging the dog
Defining terms of reference
Asbestos management and control
Fire safety (hoardings)
Regular minuted project meetings
Electrical safety
Services removal and installation
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Environmental aspects
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Waste removal – centre’s best practice – cannot be forced
Communicate
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Facebook and twitter
News Letters
Noise and lease implications (quiet enjoyment) – Non Derogation from Grant
Inclusion in CDM progress contract meetings
Centre Manager has an agenda item to report issues and aspects
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Permit to Work
Nuts and Bolts - Communicating
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Contractor management
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Contractor Management
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Tenants and our own
Tenants’
CAFM (Maximo/Concept)
Permit to Work
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Talking From Experience!
Relationships with EHO
•McDonalds
•Separate Mall seating area
•Hoardings
•Aesthetics
•Safety
•Marketing – awareness
•PR
•Recycle the seating into the community
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•Ac and plant – normally on the roof
•Weekly meetings with the tenant –
progress and next steps
BHS Strip Out and External Works
What if that doesn
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Three strikes…..
So all this preparation should make it
all work perfectly?
Common Sense ?
Children & Adults don’t discriminate
between home and shopping
HEALTH AND SAFETY
WIPE out accidents
Our award winning safety philosophy ensures
Work areas are safe to work in and travel through
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Information is specific, relevant and suitable
People are competent to undertake the tasks they are allocated
Equipment is appropriate for the task and well maintained
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