ERIKS health and safety award from Thame Water helps water treatment stay afloat

ERIKS UK win Health and Safety Award from Thames Water.

ERIKS UK claimed the Innovation award at Thames Water's Excellence in Health and Safety Awards 2011 with a unique raft designed to float on raw sewage used during routine tank cleaning operations.

The ERIKS designed raft was one of the winning entries at the UK water sector's first-ever health and safety awards, staged in London by the country's biggest water and sewage company.

ERIKS Industrial Services made the floating work-platform together with a hand-railed ladder that fastens to the side of sewage tanks to help improve safety for engineers cleaning out sewage settlement tanks at sewage works. The platform avoids the complications of having to drain down entire tanks and set up scaffolds to carry out routine cleaning and maintenance.

The competition was run for Thames Water's contractors, which are carrying out nearly £5 billion pounds of essential work to improve and maintain its water pipes, sewers and other facilities across London and the Thames Valley between 2010 and 2015.