A Dorset construction company which celebrated its 35th anniversary last year has received a top accolade from the UK’s largest health and safety consultancy.

Building Safety Group (BSG) presented Spetisbury Construction with an award for best practice in health and safety.

More than 800 companies were considered for a BSG award.

Stephen Bell, BSG Managing Director, said: “BSG would like to commend Spetisbury Construction for its outstanding contribution to health and safety by introducing measures that have helped to keep their employees and workplaces free of injury and ill health.

“This was an exceptional achievement.”

The award was presented to Justin Ives, Spetisbury Construction’s Managing Director, and Martyn Openshaw, Director, at the company’s Wimborne office by BSG’s Mark Stevens.

Justin said: “We are naturally very proud to have won a BSG Award for best practice in health and safety for our region.

“This is a credit to all of our team for ensuring that the highest standards are adopted on our projects.

“Building Safety Group have been a long-standing partner of ours and have assisted in achieving and maintaining this standard.

“It is great to have achieved this recognition when they have so many other good member organisations.”

The BSG Awards is a national celebration of businesses’ dedicated commitment to health and safety in construction.

The Building Safety Group is a not for profit organisation set up by construction companies to provide health and safety training and consultancy services for the building industry.

Its 800-plus members throughout the UK operate across 3,500 workplaces.

BSG conducts more than 21,000 site inspections every year and trains more than 10,000 people.

Justin Ives, Managing Director (centre) with the Board of Spetisbury Construction.

Spetisbury Construction has been responsible for hundreds of building projects running into many millions of pounds in Dorset and further afield since its inception in 1984.

The chartered building company, which takes its name from the Dorset village of Spetisbury, was bought out by its management in 2015 with its five-strong board collectively having nearly 80 years of construction experience between them.

Sectors served by the company include education, healthcare, hotels and leisure, houses and flats and industrial as well as conservation, general works and luxury housing.