Cutting The Cost Of Mobile Welfare Units This Winter

Date: 13/11/23

Mobile welfare units are always needed on site for breaks and meals. But when it comes to winter, they’re even more important. Mobile welfare units give your team a warm and welcoming place to get away from the worst of the winter weather when they’re working, keeping morale up and sickness numbers down.

Yet running mobile welfare units can come at a considerable cost, especially when you factor in the price of heating in the coldest weather, as well as lighting, which can often be required all day long in the winter months. If you’re not careful, taking care of your team can also take care of a large chunk of your operating costs, but under Health and Safety law, you have no choice.

A compulsory commitment

The HSE regulations state that you must provide site workers with certain essential amenities, even if they don’t directly work for you. These include toilets, washbasins with hot running water and somewhere to change and dry clothing. These facilities must be kept warm at all times, so they’re ready for regular breaks.

Failure to comply with these requirements can end up even more costly than providing these facilities. Fines can run into several thousands of pounds, with prosecution costs on top. Even if the HSE just writes to you to raise an issue with your welfare provision, you can be charged what is known as a ‘fee for intervention’ to cover their costs.

Managing the costs

With high running costs if you do provide welfare units, and high fines if you don’t, it can feel like you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to worker welfare. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Think Hire can provide a range of eco mobile welfare units that cut your operating costs, and your emissions, while still meeting all your statutory obligations.

Think Hire eco mobile welfare units come in a range of sizes to suit any project. From the basic six-person mobile welfare unit, with a rest area, toilet and kitchen facilities, right up to the thirteen-person canteen and office unit, each one is fitted to the highest standard. And because they come from Think Hire, you can be sure that they’re as energy efficient and economical as possible too.

ECOlogical and ECOnomical too

Think Hire have used all our environmental experience in the design of these highly efficient eco mobile welfare units, saving energy, reducing emissions and cutting costs at every turn. LED lighting and 12V USB phone chargers cut electricity bills, while excellent insulation and energy saving heating cut the cost of keeping warm. Link your eco mobile welfare unit to your solar power generator to charge the battery and you’ll save even more on running costs and emit even less CO2.

Mobile welfare units for wherever you need them

Think Hire eco mobile welfare units make it quick and easy to comply with your staff care obligations. Each unit can be towed by any commercial vehicle, so they can be deployed wherever they are needed on site, and they can be ready for use in minutes. As your project develops, your eco mobile welfare units can simply be moved around the site to match.

Avoid the chills of huge bills

Staying warm this winter, without huge bills giving you chills, is never easy, but with the help of Think Hire, you and your team can do just that. To find out more about Think Hire eco mobile welfare units, and to see how easily you could look after your team and your budget at the same time, get in touch with Think Hire today on 0330 133 2222 or complete the contact form online.

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