Ice belongs in ice rinks and drinks
Twirling and sliding around on the ice is all well and good in the right location. An ice rink is an excellent place to show off your skills, office car parks are not such a great place to do so. Ice in an ice rink is useful, and ice cubes are never out of place in a drink, but snow and ice covering the ground outside your business is inconvenient and hazardous. Gritting services are vital to protect your business from the effects of ice.
Gritting services can prevent injuries
Untreated pathways, car parks, steps, walkways outside your buildings are dangerous in icy conditions. Severe injuries can occur in the event of someone slipping on the icy ground. If you have provided inadequate provision to safeguard people, you may be liable for any damages that occurred. Protecting the people who access your site, or use your services should be your number one concern during the winter months. Gritting and snow clearance will help to protect the people that use your site.
Preparation can prevent business disruption
Business disruption can also be caused by icy spells. Inadequate planning for your business can leave you in financial peril with your business unable to operate in adverse weather conditions. The repercussions for your bottom line can be problematic and damaging. Being prepared for bad weather shows your business in a good light, it indicates that your forward-thinking and prepared. It shows that you are capable in a crisis and have good management skills. Your attitude towards inclement weather conditions reflects well upon you, in the eyes of your employees and customers.
Pro-active gritting services not reactive
It is important to understand that winter maintenance services including gritting services don’t just rely on reacting to the circumstances. We are not simply reactive, but pro-active. We, also, plan ahead. Part of our gritting service involves following the Met Office forecasting and deciding when your premise needs to be gritted. Simply gritting every day would be inefficient and expensive. Planning your gritting for you, in a pro-active manner alleviates your stress, and enables you to concentrate on running your business.
Experienced gritting services
Gritting is not simply a matter of throwing some salt around. Good gritting will leave your outdoor areas safe and usable without inefficiently wasting salt. We are experienced at ensuring that your premise receives the right amount of grit for the environment and the incoming weather conditions. We can grit by hand or mechanically dependent upon your site and the circumstances.
Cars and ice don’t mix!
It is vital to grit anywhere on your site with vehicular access. Vehicles can easily slide on the icy tarmac in car parks causing damage both to the cars and their inhabitants. Keeping your tarmac gritted will ensure that your site remains usable during bad weather, this will help your business to remain buoyant during severe weather enabling you to stay ahead of your competitors.
Peace of mind with our winter services
Our gritting service along with our snow clearance services makes up our winter service package. This provides you with the security of knowing that you have a continuity plan in place to enable you to continue to function during adverse weather conditions. Whether you manage schools, or churches, retail parks or housing associations, hotels, or business parks, our winter service package can be tailormade to suit your requirements. We can offer these services independently and as one-offs so that you can use them when you need them, but we find many of our customers enjoy the peace of mind afforded by knowing that their businesses are shielded from the effects of the winter weather.
Close at hand to provide you with gritting services
We are ideally located in Worcestershire and operate throughout the West Midlands offering winter maintenance as part of our grounds maintenance service. Our teams are all experienced and professional, they understand the implications that bad weather can have on your business and will work efficiently and discreetly to support you. With our management in place to ensure that your business is protected as the bad weather approaches we will work together to protect your business.
We are here to help you with your gritting requirements
If you are interested in our winter services package, including gritting and snow clearance to provide you with peace of mind, we can help. If you simply want gritting services on a pay as you go basis, we can help you too. Whether you are large or small, we bring our same attention to detail and dedication to every job that we undertake. If you would like to have an informal discussion about your gritting requirements please get in touch. Simply call Central Grounds Maintenance today on 01905 935081.
