The Chaos Construction Businesses Can Cause.
June 5, 2019 by ThySista
Filed under Business, Opinion, Weekly Columns
(ThySistas.com) From an outsider looking in, the construction business most definitely is a confusing one. As soon as you step onto a business site, all you hear is loud bangs and the tone of reversing vehicles. You can see the frenzy of people walking around, either trying to solve problems that they’re having, or just walking around doing what their work requires them to do. So it can be a hard place to manage your company in, no matter what you’re doing. Whether you’re a trade company with a team of contractors, or whether you’re site manager, there are some common problems that you’re going to face. But construction is one of the most lucrative areas of business to be in right now. There is massive potential for trade companies and the employees working for them to make big money. You have to think about how many construction projects there are local to you, and then think about how big it would be on a national scale. So if you need to calm the chaos a little, so that you can focus on earning more money, here’s how we think you can do it!
Crack Down On Safety
Safety is a big thing on a construction site. You will know first hand, how many things are going on around you, involving big heavy equipment. So health and safety should be paramount, because it really doesn’t take long for something to go wrong. So if you’re an
independent trader, or perhaps the manager of a construction site, you might benefit from Ranger Lifting, a service that will come and check the safety of your products involved with lifting. When lifting, people are either operating the machinery to do so and are strapped in, or the machinery is swinging around heavy things with people walking below it. Without the correct safety equipment, this really is a recipe for disaster. Just to add on, make sure that you’re always enforcing safety within your team, especially with regards to wearing hard hats!
Effective Communication
Communication is something that all construction sites lack, simply because the different trades just seem to refuse to talk to each other. So one trade could do their bit completely out of line with when the next trade needs to do theirs, creating this big stall in work. So, as a member of a trade team, you should try to make sure that you’re always communicating with the different trades around you, so that you’re always aware of what the other is doing. Delays would be so minimal if something as simple as communication was used!
Better Services
A final note, because we know this is another area that trade companies and construction sites struggle with, and that’s better services to the customer. If you’re a company who goes around to houses for example, you really have to make sure you’re perfecting your customer service. Just because you’re a more hands on fixing type of company, doesn’t mean you can’t have that 5* customer service, that will get them ringing back if something else goes wrong!
Staff Writer; Mary James
