A little over dramatic don't you think splash - I reckon about 1/2 my commercial clients require RAMS - none for regular window work as its WFP from the ground - Anything like roof cleaning and working on the live side of the airport - yes 100% Rams and sometime more..
Never been required to have safe contractor or any other money fleecing scheme - RAMS more than good enough with insurance of course
So when you canvassed for work, did you phone ?
Darran
The example I gave is not un common but fortunately doesn’t happen often but there have been many deaths in this job and the majority have resulted in both the window cleaning company and the client being prosecuted for breach of H& S regulations .
As I said earlier we don’t chase work haven’t done so for over 15 years ,but when I did yes I would phone firms up and speak to who ever was responsible for maintenance etc , you don’t need a company to do it for you , if you are short on work you have the time to do it yourself if you are to busy then you don’t need the work simple as that . From the customers point of view I feel it comes over more professional as well , all our existing client base have stated they would not respond to phone canvassing and we cover from small shops to multi national companies ,part of running a successful business is knowing what the customers want and approaching in that way this is why we are in the position we are , again it’s not boasting but good business practice, I could easily double our work in less that 6 months if I wanted to ,each month we are turning away a lot of potential work I don’t want to expand any more and we are far to busy with what we have now . I have looked at franchising and it’s not for me
All commercial clients should be asking for RAMS and insurance details , but I agree we have some that don’t . Technically we should all have RAMS in place for domestic customers as well think if you have more than 5 employees?…but you would probably get away with that provided staff are able to do their own assessment on the day of work in their head . Most local authority tenders will want Chas , safe contractor or similar , personally don’t have theses as won’t pay there exorbitant prices , plus most that require this are poor priced jobs so we aren’t interested in theses contracts usually you can earn far more on half decent domestic work ,as an example our local authority wanted us to quote for the town hall and 25 bus shelters , this was on a quarterly clean the winning contractor tendered £200 I would have been double that for the town hall only as it’s 4 storey and difficult location and has to be done out of normal working hours .
If phone canvassing works for some that’s fine ime just sharing my experience from hundreds of commercial customers based over a large area of the country , they are telling me it isn’t something that they would respond to .
