Nick has driven our Health & Safety campaign to reduce the risk of harm to our employees and workers and those who could be harmed by our operations. Nick also acts as a superb ambassador and helps promote the brand awareness of TRAD UK and also for our parent company, Altrad. While pushing an improved HSEQT culture with passion, Nick has shared learnt lessons via briefings, bulletins, and weekly newsletters, which are distributed within...
In a moving tribute, we have renamed our Glasgow depot office as Paterson House. The renaming honours the memory of John Paterson, our highly respected former Managing Director, who sadly passed away in 2021. A plaque commemorating the renaming was unveiled by John Paterson's wife, Jane Paterson, along with his long-time colleague and friend, Davy Walls. The plaque was donated by Hayden Smith, TRAD's former owner and Chairman, who...
TRAD UK builds on our historical commitment to providing the best products and service, whether supplying a straightforward order of scaffold tube and fittings, to more complex construction safety solutions, our strength is in going that little bit further; developing products and solutions that really work for people, using our own years of construction and scaffolding expertise to make sites safer, more efficient places to work.
TRAD UK continues our culture of investing and promoting from within. We are a family with many long-term employees, we train, mentor and offer opportunities to our people to help them build and further their careers within the organisation. This drives real loyalty that improves our customer service and helps us to build lasting relationships both internally and externally.
TRAD UK benefits from being part of the ALTRAD Group, which allows us to continually develop both our products and services that will maintain our position as one of the leading scaffolding product and construction safety system providers in the UK.”
Colin Dobson - TRAD UK Managing Director
Albion Road
Dartford
DA1 5PZ
TradUK@trad.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 345 899 0845
58 Whittle Road,
West Portway Industrial Estate,
Andover,
Hampshire,
SP10 3FB
TradUKAndover@trad.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1264 350 505
TRAD House
Brickhouse Lane
West Bromwich
West Midlands
B70 0DY
TradUKBirmingham@trad.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)121 522 2333
Paterson House,
244 Bernard Street,
Glasgow,
G40 3NX
TradUKGlasgow@trad.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)141 550 3666
TRAD House
Unit 1B
16 Cross Green Way
Cross Green
Industrial Estate
Leeds
LS9 0SE
TradUKLeeds@trad.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)113 249 9555
Renwick Road
Barking
Essex
IG11 0SB
TradUKLondon@trad.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 8517 1212
TRAD House,
Cromwell Road,
Bredbury,
Stockport,
SK6 2RF
TradUKManchester@trad.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)161 430 4666
The NASC is recognised as the national trade body for access and scaffolding in the UK, producing a wide range of industry guidance for scaffolding contractors, their operatives and their clients. Members of the NASC are strictly regulated to ensure a continuous high standard of scaffolding practice.
The Scaffolding Association is the largest trade organisation in the UK scaffolding and access sector, campaigning to raise standards of safety, quality and workforce skills.
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents – actively involved in the promotion of safety and the prevention of accidents in all areas, demonstrating our commitment to safety and providing us with operational guidelines.
ISO 9001 is the internationally recognized Quality Management System (QMS) standard that can benefit any size of organization and is designed to be a powerful business improvement tool.
TRAD UK have been audited by BSi and are accredited to ISO 9001:2015.
POLICY STATEMENT
TRAD UK are established market leaders in the scaffolding hire and sales / fall prevention solutions market sector. The company has developed plans for continued organic growth for increasing market share and a commitment to continually improve the service we provide to our loyal customers. This will be achieved by our fully trained and professional teams supplying the highest quality products and delivering the highest quality service.
TRAD UK recognises the importance of the quality of our products, operations and service to achieving our company quality objectives. Our quality objectives have been planned and established with quantified, measurable goals that drive improvement and focus on maintaining and improving customer satisfaction. TRAD UK’s Senior Management have provided the resources and funds necessary to implement this policy and to achieve its quality objectives. It is, therefore, our policy to operate a Quality Management System that fully complies with the requirements of ISO9001:2015. This policy will be reviewed regularly to ensure its relevance to the strategic direction of the organisation.
The TRAD UK Top Management Team have shown commitment to satisfying all applicable requirements and compliance with customer, regulatory and statutory requirements, with industry codes of practice and relevant product standards (BS and EN). We also commit to continually improve our Quality Management System for sustained customer satisfaction and to continually meet the requirements of all interested parties.
This policy will be communicated to all employees and organisations working for and on behalf of TRAD UK and will be made available to all interested parties upon request.
The Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) is a voluntary accreditation scheme for fleet operators which aims to raise the level of quality within fleet operations, and to demonstrate which operators are achieving exemplary levels of best practice in safety, efficiency, and environmental protection.
CHAS is established as the market leader for health and safety pre-qualification in the UK. It is available to suppliers (those who provide goods and services) and to organisations (buyers) looking for suitably competent suppliers.
Constructionline is the UK’s largest Government-owned register of contractors and consultants for the construction industry. Constructionline standards are high, all suppliers are pre-qualified to the official Government pre-qualified standard.
BuildingConfidence is recognised as the standard for supplier excellence within the industry. Major contractors are using the service to evaluate their supply chains, drive up performance and forge longer lasting relationships with key suppliers.
BM TRADA membership and subsequent annual Scaffold Board grading accreditation allows TRAD to inspect the quality of their scaffold boards both new and in service. This ensures that the quality of their scaffold boards are always measured and comply with the current BS2482 – 2009 standard.
Alcumus is trusted by the world’s most respected organisations to help them create better, more sustainable workplaces.
The Alcumus SafeContractor scheme is a market-leading health & safety accreditation system, helping contractors and organisations become healthier and safer, and gaining SafeContractor status demonstrates an organisation’s compliance with increasingly stringent legislation.
This SafeContractor certificate has been awarded for the following services…
Work Categories:
Fall Protection Safety Systems: Fall Protection Safety Systems
Supplier & Service Provider: Access Equipment Hire Provider
Industry Roles:
Construction Contractor, Supplier
Category Related Activities:
Ladders / Step Ladders, Selection & Control of Subcontractors, Working at Height