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Preston Western Distributor Road Project Case Study

Who Did We Work With?

In October 2019, we began working with our client Costain on the Preston Western Distributor Road Project. The project finished and was open in July 2023.

The Project

The Preston Western Distributor Road Project was a major project that links Preston and Southern Fylde to the M55 Motorway. This also links the A583 to the M55 motorway. The project undertook creating a new motorway junction, four new bridges, and three underpasses.

What We Did

From the start of the project, PSI Global supplied a total of 189 candidates on-site. Many of our workers were on-site long-term, with 21% on board for a year or more.

Our aim has been to focus our efforts on recruiting local workers. We have achieved 41% of workers on-site living in Lancashire and a further 22% within 30km. A further 25% of our on-site labour came from various ethnic minority backgrounds.

We connected with services such as schools, job centres and prisons in the area to try and engage local people. We’ve also worked to gain interest from those who may not have otherwise considered or had the opportunity to get into construction. In December 2020, we joined forces with Costain to collect gifts for underprivileged children for Christmas.

To support our clients changing requirements on-site and provide new opportunities to our workers, we provided additional training which to date has included Traffic Marshall (NPORS), First Aid, NVQ L54 Construction Site Supervisor, SMSTS, and Cat & Genny courses. A total of 26% of our current on-site labour force have received further training provided by PSI Global.

The Results

We have seen many positives come from this project. In addition to the above accomplishments, we’ve seen two workers, who we recruited in the first half of 2020 as Groundworkers, become invaluable members of the team, being heavily relied on by foreman and supervisors as trusted workers. The two subsequently received SMSTS training and the support of the site management teams in developing their roles to become supervisors themselves in the future.

Our account manager for the project, Leanne Doyle, has been based on-site two days per week since the project began. Leanne regularly met with all new starters, helping them complete their paperwork and starter forms, organise their timesheets, and ensure hours are correct before payroll is processed to avoid any pay-related issues on site. She also arranged any additional training necessary for our workforce, and was available to our workers should they have any questions or issues when she wasn’t on-site.

Being on-site regularly, we were aware of any incidents that may have created reliability issues and could therefore maintain programme confidence. This included work-related stress, planned holidays, emergencies, ill health, or various medical reasons. Leanne is one of several PSI Global employees who completed the “i-act for Positive Mental Health & Wellbeing” training and is an accredited i-act Manager. This enabled her, on several occasions, to go beyond the call of duty and provide support to our on-site workers who have experienced various personal difficulties during their time on-site.

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