Another Successful Surveillance Audit: 14001 & 45001 🥇

Lintott Control Systems is proud to announce the successful Surveillance Audit of the Company’s Business Quality Management System to both ISO 45001 & ISO 14001. Moreover, 2023 marks a clean sweep for the 4th year running, with no minor or major non-conformances raised against either standard! Lintott first achieved certification to the original Health & Safety Standard in 2004 & this successful re-certification demonstrates to all stakeholders that the Company continually meets the requirements of internationally recognised best practice therein.

BS ISO 45001:2018
Occupational Health & Safety, sets out the minimum requirements for occupational health & safety management best practice & is designed to minimise incidents regarding workplace health & safety.

BS EN ISO 14001:2015
Environmental Management, sets out the criteria for an environmental management system. It maps out a framework that a company or organisation can follow so that environmental impacts can be minimised.

For Lintott’s valued clients, the accreditation serves as peace of mind.  For Lintott Control Systems, the framework & benchmark are fundamental facets of the Company’s integrated continuous improvement programme.

For more information, please email our Business Assurance Team at businessassurance@lintottcs.co.uk.

UEA Presentation: Removal of Waste 🗑️

In collaboration with the University of East Anglia, Andy Vassallo (Associate Professor in Business Management) delivered a customised presentation to all colleagues at Lintott on Lean and the removal of waste in the workplace.

Lintott is committed to pioneering ‘Lean’ principles throughout its operations, which concerns the removal or the reduction of waste within business operations without sacrificing productivity and removing waste and activities that do not add value to Lintott or Lintott’s customers.

This provided the opportunity to expand personal knowledge & an understanding of fundamental concepts such as quality, lean, and the importance of change along with include recognised business concepts and real-life examples,

Thank you to Andy Vassallo and the UEA for providing this excellent training opportunity to our teams!

Pool Tournament Commencement! 🎱🎖️

Today marks the first day of Lintott’s internal Pool Tournament, which will see employees throughout the business play against each other in the canteen. The line-up & sessions will be posted on the board in the canteen. The winner will then proceed through to the following round, held after all round 1 matches are complete. After all games are complete it is time for the final 🎉🥳, which will be played during lunchtime for all who wish to watch.

Empowering the Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility, it continually & actively seeks to contribute & to develop relationships within the community, extending its learning opportunities. With this event, the Company’s participant’s will be invited to donate a little something to the charity of choice this year – Nelsons Journey.

Since 1997, Nelson’s Journey has been supporting children and young people in Norfolk with their bereavement needs, helping them to understand and cope with their feelings. The charity also supports professionals in the county who work with children, such as teachers and health workers, to help raise awareness of issues affecting bereaved children.

For more information, please email media@lintottcs.co.uk

Chilmington Dispatch 🚛🏗️

Another kiosk off to it’s new home, a 10K septicity kiosk wrapped & dispatched off to another happy customer in Kent, awaiting our onsite installation team for completion of the final connections.

Did you know?

Septicity in a sewage system occurs when microorganisms use up all the dissolved oxygen and nitrates in the sewage. Without oxygen, anaerobic conditions develop, and bacteria reduces the organic compounds to Sulphur and sulphide. Then sulphate-reducing bacteria utilise sulphates to form sulphides. This results in foul odours and corrosion of the concrete pipes and mortar joints due to hydrogen sulphide.

The activity of micro-organisms which form sulphide can be inhibited by a range of organic chemicals, in this case we use calcium nitrate. However, to be effective it needs to be added continuously. Our factory-built dosing rig does just that! This standalone septicity treatment rig continuously doses calcium nitrate into the affected sewage area.

For more information please visit lintottcs.co.uk, or contact info@lintottcs.co.uk.

Supporting World Mental Health Day 🌍❤️‍🩹

Lintott Control Systems Ltd is committed to promoting the awareness of Mental Health & supports World Mental Health Day.  Mental health problems exist in our lives, families, workplaces and communities, impacting everyone. We must do as much as possible to prevent mental ill-health.

World Mental Health Day is also a chance to talk about mental health in general, how we need to look after it, and how important it is to talk about things and get help if you are struggling.

Following on from last years event, Lintott now boast even more Mental health trained staff with; 4 Mental Health First Aiders, 4 Mental Health Champions & 4 Workplace Health Champions, all of whom help support mental health awareness & its importance for a healthier, happier workforce.  This week, colleagues have been wearing green to help promote & support mental health awareness week.

For more information please contact the Business Assurance Team (via businessassurance@lintottcs.co.uk) or visit: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/public-engagement/world-mental-health-day.

Commitment to Cyber Security 🔒💻

Lintott Control Systems is pleased to advise that it has successfully renewed its Cyber Essentials certification – now the 3rd year running since gaining accreditation in 2019. Cyber Essentials is a Government-backed, industry-supported scheme to help organisations protect themselves against ever-growing cyber threats, it aims to helps companies guard against the most common cyber threats & demonstrate their commitment to cyber security.

If you want to find out more about Cyber Essentials, please visit: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberessentials/overview

Another Compact Delivery! 🏗️🚛

Another delivery for our clients today! A factory-built Chemical Dosing system for wastewater treatment, being delivered to the Southern Water area. The system comprises Lintott’s innovative dual-chemical dosing technology for Phosphate Removal & pH Correction in a single package. This cost and carbon-effective solution reduces time and complexity through the combination of two chemical processes in a single package with segregated tanks and bunded storage.

The single footprint brings inherent advantages including reduced civils, reduced raw material input, lower embodied carbon and lower operational carbon. Operated from a single control panel with Lintott’s inhouse developed software, both processes are configured, optimised and operated through one HMI. Accommodating customer logistics and again reducing carbon footprint, the witness testing (Customer Factory Acceptance Test) was facilitated remotely via Microsoft Teams).

For more information please visit www.lintott.co.uk, or contact info@lintottcs.co.uk.

HeyGirls Partnership ❤️

We are excited to announce that we’ve partnered with HeyGirls to provide free sustainable sanitary products to our colleagues & visitors!

Our partnership with HeyGirls supports their mission to eradicate period poverty in the UK, improve access to quality products & increase education around period health.

For every product we buy, one is donated to people in need across our region and the rest of the UK.  So far, HeyGirls have donated 25,000,000 sanitary products to people in need, and counting (as at June 2022)!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The products are available in Unit 9 Visitors facilities.  To find out more, please visit https://www.heygirls.co.uk/ ❤️

Northumbrian Water CDS Framework Win 🎉

Lintott Control Systems proudly announces successfully securing a place on a new framework with Northumbrian Water.

The works relate to Northumbrian’s Off Site Build Framework and the Water and Wastewater Upgrades Framework, each of which will be carried out over a four-year period, with the option to extend for a further four years across the two lots.

We look forward to this new partnership with Northumbrian Water!

For more information, contact media@lintottcs.co.uk.

Acquisition of MCS Controls Systems 🎛️

Lintott’s parent company, Galliford Try is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire MCS Controls Systems Limited, a leading systems integrator to the industrial and utilities sectors, based in Coventry, West Midlands.

MCS Control Systems provides an excellent strategic fit with the Group’s enlarged Environment business, bringing highly complementary capabilities into the Group and advancing its Sustainable Growth Strategy.

In particular, MCS provides additional competencies that complement those of the Lintott business, which was acquired as part of the nmcn water business in October 2021, accelerating the growth of Galliford Try capabilities in asset optimisation and capital maintenance. 

Founded in 1976, MCS is well established within its markets, with a 45-year heritage, and clients include Scottish Water, Southern Water and Welsh Water. For the year ended 31 December 2020, being the last year for which MCS has published audited results, MCS generated revenue of £10.1m, and had net assets of £2.0m.

As part of the acquisition, circa 80 employees will join Galliford Try, including the senior management team of MCS.

Commenting on the acquisition, Bill Hocking, Chief Executive of Galliford Try, said: “I am delighted to welcome the employees, clients and suppliers of MCS to Galliford Try. The addition of MCS Control Systems’ capabilities is complementary to the operations of our expanding Environment business, which and this is an excellent step in our Sustainable Growth Strategy which targets growth in adjacent and complementary markets.

“This is a fantastic opportunity, closely following the integration of nmcn water into our business, and again demonstrates the excellent position of the Group.”