ProSpare, and its 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 STARCLEAN® belt cleaners picking up the award for the success at an Express Asphalt plant.
The MPA Health & Safety Awards 2024 celebrate and share the health and safety innovations and achievements from across MPA members and the wider industry. Having taken place virtually for the first time, the ceremony featured a series of specially commissioned videos showcasing the best in good practice from the finalists.
142 entries from 33 companies were received for this years’ event, and the ProSpare entry won in the topic of “Safer handling of inbound and outbound materials”. At Express Asphalt, part of the Aggregate Industries group, a STARCLEAN® belt cleaner 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 at a now a bare minimum, with the site team estimating a saving of 350 hours of material clean-up and 72 hours of maintenance over three years under the single conveyor.
Each of these hours saved equates to a vast reduction in exposure to common risks associated with 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, CEO 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 wellbeing 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 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®.”
John Tuckley, General Manager, 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 recognised by the industry’s leading association.”
The 2 hour awards show is available to view on YouTube, and features video highlights from all of the finalists. It is a must watch for those in the industry who are looking to see the latest developments and great ideas relating to Health & Safety. Click here to watch the full awards video, or find each of the full individual awards entries videos in the YouTube playlist
STARCLEAN® belt cleaners save our customers time and money by reducing conveyor downtime, wasted material, manual handling, clean-up time, dust emissions, and health and safety concerns associated with material carryback. Twist Swing™ technology ensures completely independent blade tensioning for optimum cleaning performance, and simple to use tensioners make maintenance quick and simple.
ProSpare are a trusted partner to improve belt conveyor performance, particularly by addressing cleaning, tracking, and sealing issues. We help materials handling businesses in a wide range of industries including quarrying, cement, construction, and recycling, and have supplied over 2500 STARCLEAN® scrapers throughout the UK.
ProSpare is part of a group of companies, with our sister company ConSpare Ltd working exclusively with the concrete industry. We are also thrilled that they were a finalist at the MPA Health & Safety Awards 2024. This recognition at the MPA Health & Safety Awards crowns a period where ConSpare have been working hard to shine a light on staff wellbeing. Over the past year, they’ve highlighted the direct link between concrete batch plant performance and the wellbeing of site teams who operate batching plants, as can be seen in their second industry white paper. Click here to learn more and read the white paper.
ProSpare Ltd will be using Hillhead 2024 as the platform for the UK launch of the STARCLEAN® S3. The innovative conveyor belt cleaner and monitoring system enables continuous, contact-based control of the conveyor belt and scrapers. It contributes greatly to a lower maintenance, more efficient, and safer conveyor system.
Starclean belt cleaners commended as a Top 5, “runner-up”, innovation at the Tarmac Innovation Challenge 2018.
