Award win for ProSpare and STARCLEAN
STARCLEAN belt cleaner picks up ‘safer handling’ award up at MPA Health & Safety Awards 2024
PROSPARE and their bulk materials team have been named winner for an outstanding health and safety improvement at the Mineral Products Association (MPA) Health and Safety Awards 2024, with their STARCLEAN belt cleaner picking up the award for its success at an Express Asphalt plant.
The MPA Health & Safety Awards 2024 celebrate and share health and safety innovations and achievements from across MPA members and the wider industry. The online ceremony featured a series of specially commissioned videos showcasing the best in good practice from the finalists.
With 142 entries from 33 companies received for this years’ event, the ProSpare entry won in the topic of ‘Safer handling of inbound and outbound materials’. At Express Asphalt, part of the Aggregate Industries group, the STARCLEAN belt cleaner has significantly improved safety on a critical belt conveyor.
ProSpare’s installation of a STARCLEAN scraper nullified a significant carryback problem experienced on the site’s main incline conveyor. The site previously had to clean-up piles of carryback from under the conveyor on a daily basis. Since installing STARCLEAN, housekeeping requirements are now down to a now a bare minimum, with the site team estimating a saving of 350h of material clean-up and 72h of maintenance over three years under this single conveyor.
Each of the hours saved equates to a vast reduction in exposure to common risks associated with the maintenance and housekeeping of conveyors. As a result, STARCLEAN helped tackle the elements from the MPA’s Fatal 6 and reduced the need for a back-breaking, and ultimately non-productive, task from the site team’s daily activities.
James Bullock, chief executive officer of ProSpare, said: ‘Conveyors are a common sight across virtually all materials-handling facilities in the UK. With this recognition, it is great to demonstrate the safety and well-being gains that can be made through efficient belt cleaning.
‘It’s fantastic to see the hard work of our team rewarded at the MPA Awards, particularly having been placed in two categories – our sister company, ConSpare, was also a finalist. As UK master reseller, this award is a testament to the innovative engineering built into STARCLEAN.’
General manager John Tuckley said: ‘STARCLEAN belt cleaners solve major problems for our customers by reducing hazards associated with daily site tasks, and it’s a real honour to have had this recognized by the industry’s leading association.’
