Hart still working despite unprecedented challenges

As an independent, family-owned, specialist engineering company with a strong client-base we are secure and in the best possible position to survive these unprecedented times with the support of our staff, customers and suppliers.  

Although the government directive is to ‘Stay Home’, they know that for many people working in construction like ourselves, our business requires our staff to travel to their place of work, and they have advised that they can continue to do so. 

We are required to carry out essential frontline work to maintain safe and secure access to many vital UK businesses such as waste sites, food manufacturing facilities and pharmaceutical buildings. We need to operate to ensure that people are kept safe and secure. This is consistent with the Chief Medical Officer’s advice.  

Hart’s strategy is to maintain operations for as long as is practical while observing Government guidelines and keeping any risks to employees to the absolute minimum levels.  

Our order book is healthy and while management and administration is currently operated on a Work from Home basis, factory staff has been broken down into small groups on rotating shifts operating in large, open spaces. Minimum distance rules and hygiene protocols can be easily maintained and managed this way.  

This has not impacted on production. Part of one contract for 60 doors is now 30% complete with a major contract for Russia just commenced. There are other contracts in progress with a great many projects on site through the UK.  

We have taken the precaution of forward buying raw materials and stockpiling them in the factory to ensure we have significant stocks of materials on site that will allow production to keep flowing for as long as possible. 

With regards to installation or service our two-man teams will be travelling in separate vehicles to site and thereafter, be it servicing or installation, maintaining the required 2m distance at all times.

As the Queen professed in her rare but welcome speech ‘we still have more to endure’ and look forward to when ‘better days will return’, our focus is to continue to support our staff and continue to deliver the range of products both in the UK and abroad that we have been developing over the years.

The UK is still working as companies across all sectors continue manufacture or continue to engage in vital processes such as generating energy from waste for example. We are part of this galaxy of commercial activity, the backbone of our country. We are looking ahead, anticipating new needs and continually evolving strategies for the future when ‘better days’ will surely return.