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Safety and security for M&E contractors

Mechanical and electrical contractors, or M&E providers, often face complex and myriad security threats, environmental hazards and health and safety risks, making affordable, dependable and professional solutions essential.

If you are an M&E Contractor you require cost-effective, robust safety and security and risk-mitigation approaches which ensure you are compliant, and you want them all in one place.

You need solutions that minimise threats to revenues, staff and work sites and ensure that you can do your work confidently, with the assurance that your security provisions and health and safety policies are compliant and reliable.

We are a one-stop shop for a wealth of smart safety and security solutions designed to enhance your safety and protection, streamline your working environment, and ensure you are fully compliant.

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We offer:

  • Comprehensive Risk Assessments: Clearway conducts detailed risk assessments tailored to each project, construction site, or development, ensuring that security measures address specific threats and vulnerabilities related to mechanical and electrical systems.
  • Advanced Access Control Systems: We provide tailored access control solutions, including guarded entry points, automated bollards, biometric scans, and secure ID fobs, to ensure only authorised personnel can access high-risk areas, enhancing health and safety compliance.
  • Professional Security Guarding and Surveillance: Our security services include on-site professional guarding and AI-enabled CCTV protection, offering immediate intervention for any security concerns and real-time monitoring of site activities to prevent intrusions, thefts, and health and safety breaches.
  • Around-the-Clock Security Monitoring: Clearway’s Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) offers 24/7 monitoring of alarms and signals from various security devices, providing a swift response to potential security breaches and ensuring continuous protection for vacant and active work sites.
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Security services used by M&E Contractors

As we’ve outlined, the scope and breadth of work undertaken by M&E contractors means the most appropriate security services, environmental risk controls, and access restrictions can differ broadly between sites.

The services below provide a snapshot of the types of protection and risk mitigation we might suggest based on project-specific risk appraisals.

  • Access Control Systems: Tailored access controls can augment health and safety compliance while ensuring that any unauthorised or unverified user cannot gain site access. These controls may include guarded entry points, automated bollards, entrance doors, and gates activated via vehicle number plates or facial recognition, biometric scans, or secure ID fobs.
  • Professional Security Guarding and Patrols: On-site security guarding can play an important role, providing the immediacy to intervene when any potential breach or security concern is uncovered and ensuring the protection of M&E contractors, staff, and site employees.
  • Commercial Alarm Systems: Adaptable alarms can monitor access and activity around work zones, construction areas, public access facilities, and internal premises, alerting security responders immediately whenever anything requires investigation.
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How can we help?

  • AI-Enabled CCTV Protection: Cutting-edge surveillance incorporates machine learning functionality and smart cameras, which can track movement patterns, footfall and traffic flow and raise an alarm when anything untoward requires attention from on-site security personnel or supervisors.
  • Vacant Property Security: M&E contractors working on development, construction or vacant sites often require ongoing security provisions to control entry and security risks around empty and vacant property or site perimeters. We use wireless alarms, surveillance and guard patrols alongside physical safeguards like concrete barriers and steel security doors to prevent unauthorised entry.

Please visit our more detailed service pages to learn more about these options, or contact the security specialists at Clearway for more personalised advice about the best solutions for your work sites and ongoing M&E contractual work.

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Key safety and security considerations for M&E Contractors

  • M&E contractors have varied specialisms but work on mechanical and electrical projects such as heating and ventilation systems and in large-scale developments in sectors such as hospitality and leisure, meaning their risks and security considerations can shift quickly and between each project.
  • Risks and threats can include non-compliance, health and safety breaches, break-ins and plant theft, trespassing, deliberate vandalism, and targeted robberies of high-value tooling, equipment, and machinery.
  • Changes to legislation and industry standards, such as the Building Safety Act, have increased pressure on M&E contractors. They must comply with evolving regulations regarding fire engineering and construction safety, which adds to the need for continual site management and supervision.
  • An experienced, well-established security provider can assist with each ongoing and developing risk, working as a one-stop solution to keep security costs under control and ensure M&E contractors can focus on the task at hand.

What Do We Protect Against?

The nature of technical and complex systems design, installation, or maintenance of mechanical systems in property developments and facilities means that risks arise internally and externally during both initial commissioning and long-term service delivery.

A study by the insurance provider Allianz noted that plant theft reached an all-time high in early 2024, with machinery thefts spiking by 80%. The cost to the broader construction and development industry is over £800 million, as just one aspect of the security risks contractors deal with daily.

Although the varied nature of M&E contractual work will mean each project, construction site or development has a different risk profile, some of the most prevalent risks are as follows:

Intrusions, Trespass, and Unauthorised Entry

Qualified engineers, technicians, and consultants working within M&E contracting teams often deal with high-hazard mechanical equipment and functions, which must be strictly controlled. Intentional or unwitting entry can give rise to severe risks to health and life when trespassers or members of the public come close to high-voltage electrical equipment.

Planned Thefts and Opportunist Robberies

Commercial and industrial equipment, tooling, supplies, and raw materials often carry considerable value. If left unsupervised or unprotected overnight or outside work hours, they can be vulnerable to targeted robberies or opportunist threats, particularly in live construction zones with varied other tools and vehicles stored on-site.

Health and Safety and Site Control Risks

Non-compliance with PPE requirements, site access for personnel or colleagues without appropriate training or qualifications, or entry permissions for non-contracted staff can create the potential for serious breaches of health and safety law, especially in higher-risk environments subject to strict regulations.

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Why choose Clearway for M&E sector security services?

We have years of experience working with industrial and commercial sector clients and contractors, and we appreciate that compliance needs are ever-evolving. Finding a competitively priced service to protect against risks spanning security breaches, health and safety adherence, access controls, and environmental hazards such as fire may be crucial.

Our teams operate nationwide and provide a full suite of security and property management services, ensuring contractors have one point of contact and a level of oversight and risk management that enables them to focus on service delivery, knowing that emerging risks can be managed and mitigated swiftly as they arise.

 

Contact our security experts now to discuss your security requirements and get a quote from us.

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