I have received a number of complaints about activity on the Brick by Brick site on Montpelier Road. Construction work is permitted but the usual health and safety standards are expected to be kept to, in addition to maintaining a minimum distance of 2 metres between members of staff.
Local residents have advised me that recent activity on site has included:
• working outside of permitted hours
• the absence of a banksman (the person who supervises the movements of vehicles and heavy machinery in and out of the site)
• gas cylinders being stored in an unsafe manner
• workmen not maintaining a 2 metre distance from each other.
I very briefly visited the site today, whilst on another essential journey, and was able to observe what appeared to be the unsafe storage of gas cylinders (I’m not a construction site expert) and the workmen working in very close proximity to each other.
This afternoon I have highlighted these points to Colm Lacey, CEO of Brick by Brick, and asked that he confirm today what he will do to enforce safe working practices on the site. I am have also asked that the contractor shows a little more respect to the neighbours and keeps the road outside of the site clean.
