Access, safety and compliance

Completing site inductions before work begins

A decorator wearing a visitor identification pass while signing an induction register at a reception desk.

Managed sites, construction projects and many commercial buildings require every contractor to sit through an induction before touching a wall. We treat this as a fixed part of the start-up sequence, scheduling it in rather than seeing it as time lost from the programme.

Booking induction time into the start date

Where a site runs its own induction, we confirm the format and duration ahead of the first working day and schedule operatives to attend it before any tools come out, rather than assuming it can be squeezed in around the start of painting.

  • Induction requirements confirmed with the site before the start date is fixed
  • Operatives scheduled to attend before any work begins that day
  • Induction certificates or passes kept with the crew for the duration

Following the site's own visitor and conduct rules

Signing in and out, wearing the correct identification, using designated welfare facilities and following fire evacuation procedures specific to that building are treated as non-negotiable, even where they differ slightly from our own standard routine on other sites.

New operatives joining an existing contract

Where a longer contract needs additional operatives partway through, they go through the same induction before joining, rather than being brought straight onto site under the assumption that an existing team member's induction covers them too.

Questions we are asked about this

Do all your operatives need to be inducted individually?

Yes — each person working on your site completes the induction, whether they are there for the whole contract or joining partway through.

Can induction happen before the actual start date?

Where the site allows it, yes, which avoids losing time on the first working day. Otherwise we schedule it as the first task that morning.

What if your crew's normal routine differs from our site rules?

Your site's rules take precedence for anyone working there — sign-in, welfare use and evacuation procedures follow your system, not ours.

A site induction briefing taking place in a meeting room before decorating work begins that day.

Send us your induction booking details and we will schedule the crew before the first working day.

A site induction is scheduled as a fixed first step, not squeezed in around the start of decorating.

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