{"id":66643556,"date":"2021-06-24T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T08:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fors-online.org.uk\/cms\/?p=66643556"},"modified":"2021-06-24T09:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T08:36:59","slug":"economic-skips-ltd-looking-forward-year-6-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fors-online.org.uk\/cms\/2021\/06\/economic-skips-ltd-looking-forward-year-6-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Skips Ltd \u2013 Looking forward to year 6 at Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Section 1 – Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Economic Skips Ltd is based in Deptford, South East London and we are a waste management operation. Chris Guinnelly, Fleet Manager, explains how Economic Skips Ltd has achieved significant improvements through FORS over the last three years, MPG increased by 9%, incidents reduced by 65%, CO2 reduced by 31%, NOx & PM by 30% & PCN by 15%.<\/p>\n

Section 2 <\/strong>\u2013 How did you hear about FORS, what prompted the company to join and how long have you been a member? <\/strong><\/p>\n

We came across FORS when tendering for several projects in 2013. We realised it would help us to achieve best practice and benefit us by utilising the classroom and online training offered to help improve road safety for vulnerable road users.<\/p>\n

Section 3<\/strong> \u2013 What was your experience of the initial FORS Bronze audit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Economic Skips Ltd passed their initial audit first time round and the same at all subsequent Bronze audits we passed at the first attempt. This showed us that all the hard work and effort put into preparing for the Bronze audits paid off and from here we were encouraged to progress on our FORS journey.<\/p>\n

Section 4<\/strong> \u2013 What was your main reason(s) for you progressing (either from Bronze to Silver and then Silver to Gold or straight from Bronze to Gold)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once we were Bronze we decided that we should progress to Silver because we wanted to demonstrate to our customers, suppliers and the general public we are highly committed business. However, our ultimate target was the coveted Gold accreditation to show continued commitment regarding road safety and the environment.<\/p>\n

Once we were FORS accredited, we focused on staff training, monitoring fuel & emissions, PCN\u2019s, road safety and having our own FORS Practitioner benefited our operation as we now had the tools to streamline the company. We have seen improvements overall MPG, CO2, NOx, PM and the number of incidents. We also seen improvements in PCN\u2019s issued during 2019\/2020, unfortunately we seen an increase during 2020\/2021.<\/p>\n

FORS has been invaluable helping us improve all aspects of our business \u2013 Chris Guinnelly Fleet Manager. <\/em><\/p>\n

FORS has transformed the way we look and operate \u2013 Michael Farrell Director.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Section 6 <\/strong>\u2013 What improvements have you made?<\/strong><\/p>\n

These shall include:<\/p>\n