Mailcoms congratulated for health and safety and welfare standards

Mailcoms recently received a visit from local Cannock Chase Council Safety Officers. One of the purposes of the site visit was to update the database of businesses in the area and to determine which businesses fell to the Council to enforce health and safety and which ones fell to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE).

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) state that in 2021, 565,000 working people sustained an injury at work according to the Labour Force Survey, with 61,713 injuries to employees reported under RIDDOR. Plus, 36.8 million working days were lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury.

Mailcoms moved into the packaging industry in 2021 following a shift in direction in the industry from sending letters to sending parcels. Having to learn quick on our feet, we realised the need for vast storage space and so invested over £400,000 in new facilities and operations. £100,000 of the investment was spent on the correct equipment and Health and Safety advisors and infrastructure to ensure the safety of our workforce.

Visiting Council Safety Officer, Sue Buckman, said:

“When we initially visited the premises we were advised that it was used as a warehouse, hence, it appeared that we were the enforcing authority for health and safety there. However, when we visited on 13th June 2023 it soon became evident that Mailcoms manufacture and print there, which means that health and safety there is enforced by the HSE.

As we had made an appointment to meet with Mailcoms health and safety consultant, Chad Bott, we took the opportunity for Chad to show us around the site. We were extremely impressed with the health and safety and welfare standards at the premises and would like to pass our congratulations onto all Directors and staff.”

We were very pleased to show the team around our premises and have the hard work we put into our operations acknowledged.

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