Site welfare begins with a site canteen cabin
There are several benefits to working on a construction site. It’s challenging work, but your teams are physically active, and avoiding many of the pitfalls of a more sedentary desk-based job.
But while it’d be easy for a site manager to ignore the endless media articles based around the mental health problems caused by office work – there’s still one worry your site-based teams share with their office-bound counterparts.
It's Lunch.
Everyone from Saint John’s Ambulance to the BBC and ITN have flagged up working lunches – or “al desko dining” – as harming staff health and mental wellbeing.
And if it’s bad to eat a hastily bought wrap at a warm and comfortable desk, how bad must it be to chew on a cold sandwich while sheltering from the rain inside the cabin of a JCB, or huddled under an awning?
Giving your site teams somewhere warm and comfortable to enjoy a hot meal, dry off their wet clothes and take the weight off their feet for half an hour could be the difference between a committed, contented workforce, and one that can’t wait to be off-site for good.Site welfare has to be a priority. And that site welfare starts with the right site canteen cabins.
A Place to Connect
When your people have a strong relationship with their colleagues, it provides a whole range of benefits to your business. Research from Indeed shows that when your team members are comfortable with each other, they collaborate more easily, they’re more productive, and they’re healthier. Add to that increased retention rates, and it’s easy to see why somewhere comfortable like a ten-person Combi Cabin could deliver real welfare improvements for your sites.
It’s somewhere your people can connect with each other on their breaks, fostering that all-important team spirit and morale.
A Place to Grab a Bite
Having to eat on the go is a huge contributor to poor mental health in the workplace. At a time when 18m work days are lost each year to mental health conditions such as stress, depression and anxiety, doing anything you can to foster a healthier working environment can lead to very real productivity benefits.
Giving your workforce a canteen where they can stop, recharge, and enjoy a hot meal, is one way of boosting mental health and promoting better team wellbeing. And when you can configure a Combi Cabin 44 to act as a canteen for up to 20 workers, providing that space is easier than ever before.
A Place to Get Warm
It should go without saying that one of the biggest challenges facing any construction workers in the UK is our weather. With conditions that span every type of weather from light drizzle to torrential downpour, without warm and comfortable shelter, a construction site can soon become a very miserable place to work.
But there’s more to site welfare than offering a roof to keep the rain off. Enough people traipsing mud into your cabins and hanging around inside in sodden clothes, and that warm, welcoming shelter is suddenly not so warm and very unwelcoming.
That’s why you need to look past the site cabins and plan a site that’s fit for any weather. Whether it’s with drying rooms, bootwashes or hot running water, there’s a lot Garic can help you with to create a warmer, happier work site.
A Place that Isn’t a Place At All
It’s pretty clear that a great quality site welfare cabin is more than just a box to store a microwave and a kettle, but what about those jobs where you can’t deploy a static cabin?
Sometimes, you’ll have people working in remote areas where you just can’t install one of our Microgrid-powered Combi Cabins. In these areas, staff welfare is more important than ever, so you can’t just leave your people to fend for themselves.
So take your welfare efforts on the road. Garic welfare vans provide the same warmth, comfort and facilities as a static unit (down to the private toilet with an external door), meaning no member of your team is ever left nibbling on a stale sandwich in the rain.
Get your people’s welfare right, and they’ll stay with you longer. They’ll stay committed to your projects, and you’ll reap the benefits of an engaged, skilled, committed workforce.
That’s thinking beyond the (lunch) box.
Site Canteen Cabins
