Being away from home for long periods of time can be detrimental to anyone’s mental health. After a certain point, people just want the creature comforts of their own home, in their own space. They may miss their family, their comfy sofa, their friends, and even their dog. Long-haul jobs in the industrial sector are typically very well paid, but that doesn’t mean that the extended period of time away from home doesn’t affect workers’ morale along the way.
As a site manager, it’s your job to ensure the health and safety of your workers while maintaining a productive timeline. A good way to tackle both goals at once is to use these top tips that will boost morale amongst your workforce:
Cover Their Accommodation
Long-term jobs require long-term accommodation. Rather than pay through the nose to keep your road construction workers, mechanical engineers, welders, and so on in a hotel, use comfyworkers.com to find apartments in Nottingham and beyond. These apartments can even just be rented during the week, allowing you to save money by avoiding paying for the weekends.
Not only are these apartments more comfortable, but workers can make them feel more like their own space, which will then allow them to relax and get a better rest during their off-hours. Since you can house more than one contractor in an apartment at a time, you can also bundle the cost and save even more money.
Instil Good Safety Routines
If workers feel unsafe or threatened, their morale is going to plummet. Not only does this harm your overall reputation, but it can actually put your workers at risk. That’s why you need to instil good safety routines.
Start with an overview of the safety essentials at the start of the job. Then, require every station to go through some safety checks before they end their day. Create a first-aid centre and make sure that everyone knows where to go and what to do if there’s an injury so that everyone can feel better supported and safe when they’re working.
Keep them Well-Fed
Riggers, bricklayers, and scaffolders, for example, all have heavy-handed jobs that require a lot of physical labour to get done. Even electrical engineers need to be well-fed; otherwise, they have to deal with low blood-sugar issues like shaking hands when they’re trying to put together delicate wire arrangements.
In short, you need to feed your workforce. It isn’t enough to assume that everyone should bring their own meals on-site. While they absolutely can, this isn’t very efficient, nor does it guarantee that they have enough for the whole day or that it’s going to boost their energy. Out of desperation, your crane operators may just pick up a few packets of crisps and call that a day if they run out of time, for example. That’s why you need to get in touch with a nearby caterer for some simple basics, like tray meals or sandwiches, to give your workers the option to not only eat on-site but also to take leftovers home to eat at their apartment
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