Business ISP Connectus Secure Safe Contractor Accreditation for Fibre Build
Business focused UK ISP and Managed Service Provider (MSP) Connectus, which is also busy building a gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network to several sites, has been awarded Safe Contractor accreditation following a lengthy and detailed audit of all their existing safety systems.
The award is a fairly common one for operator’s to pursue when they’re planning a serious network build and helps to demonstrate the company’s health and safety competency. All of this is relevant because the provider is now building gigabit speed full fibre networks around Gateway East Doncaster, Wirral and Liverpool waters, Media City and other selected business parks across the north of England.
Details of the award come just weeks after it was announced Connectus is helping accelerate connectivity inside one of the “region’s most exciting business hubs” by delivering, designing, building and operating Gigabit capable services to the landlord and tenants at the Green Park Business Centre in York. At present the site only has DSL services available which max out at 11Mbps.
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Pip Shelton, Operations Director at Connectus, said:
“I am really proud of our team for their outstanding health and safety records. As we continue on our growth journey, being a Certified Safe Contractor provides all of our current and future clients with an increased peace of mind that all of our projects and staff adhere to the strictest of safety measures.”
Earlier this month it was also announced the company had secured new funding with Time Finance in a deal which will help the company expand and grow. Connectus will use Time Finance’s revolving credit facility to help fund a new phase of development that is set to include expansion, additional staff hires and new acquisitions.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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Not belittling the criticality of H&S at all, but this is hardly big news when you’re building about 100m of new fibre a year!
That’s a view, certainly, but not one I share. Last year 45 people were killed in construction work, up from 29 the year before. Nobody should be killed in the course of normal employment, although the HSE data suggests we’re now at the bottom end of the improvement curve, and further improvement will be a challenge.
Even if anybody wants to assert that nationally 45 deaths are tragic but tolerable, there’s the small matter of 78,000 cases (again, construction sector only) of work related ill health. Of those, roughly a third are long term health effects. Total cost to the construction sector was around £1.5bn a year.
Against international comparisons, the UK does exceptionally well – and that’s precisely because companies like Connectus are doing the right thing. I’ll raise my cup of tea to them. Big news? No. Important news? Certainly, and all credit to ISPReview for reporting this.
Regardess of how much is going in the ground, in the air or anywhere else for that matter, it needs to be done safely. Well done to what appears to be a small growing Altnet/ MSP for taking H&S seriously.
Regardess of how much is going in the ground, in the air or anywhere else for that matter, it needs to be done safely. Well done to what appears to be a small growing Altnet/ MSP for taking H&S seriously.