Refresher training for Clearway Gritting teams as winter gritting season officially starts

Refresher training for Clearway Gritting teams as winter gritting season officially starts

Refresher training for gritting crews as winter gritting season officially start

Wednesday 30 October, 2019

As we head into October, we are preparing our winter gritting teams for the winter gritting season ahead. As the largest winter gritting contractor in the south east of England we ensure all our winter gritting colleagues come together for annual refresher training to drive our winter gritting vehicles and listen to health and safety briefings. Clearway Gritting operates from the following seven depots:

St Albans – Hertfordshire

Milton Keynes - Buckinghamshire

Huntingdon – Cambridgeshire

Aylesbury – Buckinghamshire

Maldon - Essex

Harlow – Essex

Barnet – North London

What is refresher gritting training?

Many of our Clearway Gritting colleagues will have undergone gritting training before but it’s important that we remind everyone about our procedures, routes and processes in the event that gritting is necessary.

Gritting Routes

Clearway Gritting works with private businesses including industrial parks, retail parks, supermarkets,  universities and hospitals. Our focus is to make sure our client’s customers and staff can get to and from work. We prioritise clearing their car park, removing snow and laying grit on their footpaths and gritting private roads that link them with the main council gritted road system.

Snow ploughs and winter gritting vehicles

At our training sessions we allow our winter gritting crews to practice driving our snowploughs. We have a growing fleet of 74 snow ploughs and 36 spreaders that are located across our seven depots in the south east. We also have ten 7.5-ton lorries and two 18 ton lorries that are used to grit medium and large sites. All our winter gritting equipment is different, so it is important that our Clearway colleagues know how to work the machinery.

Some of the unique features of our winter gritting vehicles are listed below:

GPS tracking utilised

weigh cells for accurate salt measuring

Low throw spreading with ‘spargo’ in cab controls for accurate spreading

tablet device running bespoke control service software

Health and Safety training

Clearway Gritting trainers also discuss health and safety with our winter gritting teams so they know how to stay safe in bad weather.

Andrew Sherriff, Director, Clearway Gritting, St Albans, Hertfordshire said:

‘It is important that all our winter gritting colleagues come together before the winter gritting season starts for refresher training. We regularly service our vehicles and we use modern, reliable and well-maintained winter gritting equipment manufactured by Econ Engineering Limited who are the largest manufacturer of winter gritting and salt spreading vehicles in the UK. The winter gritting teams get to drive the vehicles so they can check that they are in good working order before they use them to grit private businesses. We will also review and familiarise our teams with all our winter gritting contracts so they are fully aware of winter gritting routes and individual client requirements. Clearway Gritting has achieved the ISO 18001 accreditations for health & safety so all our Clearway colleagues should be reassured that we operate safe and environmentally friendly winter gritting services that put their interests first. We discuss health & safety issues with the team as this is vital when you are working together in bad weather.’

Gritting Services

Cost effective and carefully planned preventative and reactive road and pavement gritting for the effective prevention of ice and the clearance of snow.

Gritting Services

Car Park Gritting

Preventative and reactive car park gritting services to the private and public sectors in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, London and the South East. Our car park gritting vehicles are always prepared and ready to provide service at very short notice, often within 1 hour of an initial request.

Car Park Gritting

Gritting Quote

Contact our services team for a competitive Winter & Snow Clearance contract quote.