Helens FORS Practitioner Achievement

Congratulations to Helen Swarbick for successfully completing her FORS Practitioner standard in safe, clean and efficient fleet management!

The FORS practitioner is a series of 15 highly informative and insightful modules that cover all aspects of fleet management. Completing the modules help demonstrate your own Continuing Professional Development as outlined in requirements D4, S5 and G5 of the FORS Standard.

FORS Gold

The Fleet Operation Recognition Scheme (FORS Gold) accreditation is a voluntry scheme to promote saftey, efficiency and enviromental performance for fleet operators.

Bronze, Silver, and Gold are the three FORS accreditation levels that are available for acquisition. Operators must fulfil progressively more challenging requirements to advance to the next level, which signifies a greater degree of achievement.

FORS Gold is the highest level of accreditation that you can get.

To achieve FORS Gold, operators must meet all the requirements for FORS Silver, as well as provide evidence of the following additional criteria:

  • Training and development: Operators are required to show that they have implemented policies and procedures such as professional development courses and apprenticeships, to support staff training and development.
  • Community engagement: Operators are required to show proof of their efforts to interact with the local community, including donations to local charities and community organisations.
  • Performance measurement: Operators must demonstrate that they have measures in place to measure and monitor their performance in areas such as safety, efficiency, and environmental impact.

Road Sweeper Safety Features

All of our sweepers are equipped with up-to-date safety measures ensuring that members of our team and members of the general public are kept safe

These safety measures include:

  • Warning lights –  All round beacons fitted, including wide beacon bars fitted to the cab roofs.
  • A 4-way camera system fitted to the trucks. Footage is stored on a hard drive in the vehicle and is also available to be remotely viewed live or from the archive footage. All trucks have a rear view/reverse camera systems fitted.
  • A red, amber, and green proximity sensors all round. If a person or object is too close to the vehicle it will trigger a warning sound accompanied by a visual indicator.
  • All trucks have chapter 8 chevrons on the rear along with hi-vis markings all round.
  • Powerful task lighting is fitted to the rear and working areas of the vehicles.

Beaming at Birmingham Airport

Safety is of paramount importance on any airport project. Runways and taxiways have to be meticulously clean. Birmingham Airport turned to Kelly Plant Hire so they have the confidence that no stone will be left behind. Our modern road sweeper fleet not only pack serious cleaning power, but they are also equipped with modern safety features such as 360 CCTV and proximity sensors.

Kelly Plant Hire supports HS2 Construction

HS2 is a flagship project to provide a new high speed rail link between London and Birmingham. The project, which started in 2020, is one of the biggest projects carried out in the UK and involves many Contractors. The scheme comprises 140 miles of track, state of the art stations, 32 miles of tunnels and 130 new bridges.

Kelly Plant Hire have been supporting the project with our Beam Sweepers for many years. Our beam sweepers not only ensure the environment is kept free of dust and mud, but also ensures surfaces are spotless ready for subsequent construction layers.

Kelly Plant Hire are a key Supply Chain Partner to HS2 due to our specialist plant, large fleet and Constructionline Gold and FORS Gold accreditation.

Beam Road Sweeping the A30 Cornwall

On February 6th, 2020, permission was granted to start the project for the A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross Scheme, In march 2020, the production started.

The construction of the a30 consists of:

  • 10 new underpasses and underbridges
  • 3 new bridges over the new road
  • Refurbishment of an existing structure
  • Over 2.6 million cubic metres of earthworks
  • 33 new culverts and wildlife crossings
  • Nearly 29 miles of new highway drainage
  • Over 12 miles of wildlife proof fencing
  • New badger setts and bat roosts
  • 8 miles of Cornish hedge

Kelly Plant Hire are supporting the project with our fleet of Beam Road Sweepers. We not only ensure safety but make sure the environment is kept clean and well maintained allowing for the project to be completed seamlessly.

Kelly Plant Hire are a key asset to the A30 Cornwall Project due to our specialist plant, large fleet of road sweepers and Constructionline Gold and FORS Gold accreditation.

Custom Road Sweeper reveal

F1 Silverstone 14th-16th July 2017

We’re proud to have sent three Beam sweepers to Silverstone to be part of the huge team for their Formula 1 event over the three days…

BEAMING AT SILVERSTONE 2017

BEAMING AT SILVERSTONE IN PREPARATION FOR THE 2017 F1

Another Half Marathon Completed!

Our Managing Director, Shaun, has ran the Half Marathon at Silverstone Race Track this weekend, raising £650.00 for Blood Cancer UK. There were 8,000 people running, each with a story to tell and a reason for raising money for great charities.

He completed the 13.1 miles in 2hrs 35minutes……with another medal to add to the collection!

A big thank you to everyone for their support; people have been so generous.