HSE International ISSUE 99 | Page 27

EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS Based in Kent, NBC Group (NBC) is a leading construction, development and service group with a solid reputation of delivering reliable, competent and competitive contracting and maintenance services to a broad range of clients in the commercial and industrial sectors. N BC has over 30 years’ experience in civil engineering and is responsible for several significant UK infrastructure developments, having completed many high profile projects with the top 10 Construction companies in the UK, including some of the biggest Network Rail projects outside of London (at Reading Station) to working today at Hammersmith Flyover & Battersea Power Station. With knowledgeable project teams within each of its specialist subdivisions, NBC provides its clients with a detailed understanding of all projects to ensure complete fulfilment of individual customer needs. “We have 5 different divisions: Labour Supply, Civil Engineering, Diamond Drilling, Air Conditioning and Training Solutions, and our project teams have considerable knowledge in each specialist sub-division. We provide clients and customers with detailed understanding on all projects to ensure complete fulfilment for each of their individual needs,” Jag Sidhu, Managing Director at NBC Group commented. NBC is a hands on company that strives for health and safety excellence, and their accreditation and awards success reflects their activities and outstanding health and safety record. “95% of our business is repeat business and we rely on our reputation as a company for new work and contracts; more often than not, new clients will approach us for tendering for works. “Our unblemished health and safety record and the appointment of a full time H&S Manager who provides ongoing support to our site teams is a testament to NBC’s commitment to health and safety,” Jag said. “We have our own resources and deliver the best value projects. Our principles consist of creating excellent working relationships, listening to customers and exceeding their needs, aspirations and expectations, delivering projects on time and on budget, providing flexible procurement and risk minimisation and being both responsible and caring when considering a safety first attitude,” he continued. NBC cover every industry including Water, Waste, Highways, Utilities, Rail and Defence and are currently working towards Oil, Gas and Nuclear markets. “We work across the UK and have ventured into Europe with our Air Conditioning division. Europe is a new market we’d like to investigate in the future.” NBC have won several awards including RoSPA Bronze, Silver and Gold awards. “The awards submission is quite a straight forward process providing you have the suitable health and safety paperwork organised for submission. We’ve won the awards as a business rather than for a particular project.” Jag is currently working towards a NEBOSH qualification in Construction. He explained: “Safety starts from the top, filters down to the bottom and is ingrained in the culture of our business. We’ve got employees who’ve been with us for a long time and once they start with NBC, safety is embedded in their minds. “We take health and safety and standards as far as possible and it is very important that high standards are always met. Our Directors and the Contracts Managers have varying degrees of general knowledge but we also proactively encourage them towards safety credentials; with IOSH and NEBOSH qualifications for example. We also organise 2-day & 5 day safety courses for our Supervisors. “We must ensure that we all go home safety and work in a safe manner. Why complicate health and safety? Keep it simple and keep it real.” The team at NBC has developed a measurable HSE INTERNATIONAL 27