Congratulations to the June 2022 Thanks For Your Effort winners – The Buxton Block Plant team: Julian Wildgoose, Aaron Hamilton, Gary Collins, Mark George and Paul Carson (Foreman and Operators)

The team won for their commitment – they stayed long into the following morning to clear out concrete from the mixer and hopper, ensuring there was no impact of lost time from the breakdown for the following shift.

Here are some of the comments from the voting panel included: “Huge commitment and teamwork at night after a long shift to help ensure continued operations for the next team.” “The team went beyond the call of duty.” “A great example of thinking of your colleagues and working as one team.” “Exceptional consideration for colleagues and customers in resolving a problem, rather than leaving it for the following shift and the knock-on effect to customer service.”

The team had a breakdown on site just before the shift finished their duties for the evening. They would have been due to finish at 1am. The mixer/hopper failed and would not feed the concrete to the press. The concrete started to set and options would have been leave it until 5.30am for the next shift or stay and dig out 4 – 5 tonnes of concrete by hand. They decided to stay and safely remove the concrete by hand from the mixer and hopper. This took them until 5.30am when the next shift arrived on site.

They all pulled together as ‘one team’ to ensure this was cleared. This commitment helped the second shift so they didn’t have to clear hard concrete when they arrived which would have taken longer.

There was no impact of lost time from this breakdown due to the quick thinking of the shift. The commitment of all employees that evening to stay and complete the task even though they had already carried out a 12 hour shift. 

Well done to the whole team – a fantastic effort and achievement.