The Complexities of Snow Forecasting
Snow forecasting is tricky due to various meteorological factors and the UK’s erratic winter weather. To achieve accurate weather forecasts, particularly in predicting snow, we must consider air temperature, atmospheric conditions, and geographical influences. Let’s dive into why forecasting snow is complex and what makes snow in the UK especially challenging to predict. The Fundamentals […]
Our Winter Maintenance Technology Explained.
As a business with innovation and customer experience at the heart of our core values, we continually review our customers’ current and potential future requirements to ensure we are working with the best equipment in the winter maintenance field to meet all demands. Our collective years of experience means that our team have also evolved […]
Announcement: City & Guilds Winter Service Operations, Supervision and Monitoring Training Course
We Are Proud to Announce the AccuGrit Team Is to Undertake the City & Guilds Winter Service Operations, Supervision and Monitoring training course. In an industry first, AccuGrit is once again leading the way among Winter Maintenance Service Providers by announcing the deployment of a staff development programme that will see employees undertake the City […]
The Rise of Retail Parks and Winter Maintenance Services.
We recently came across an article by the BBC that announced that the UK had lost 83% of department stores in the five years since BHS collapsed. On a personal level, that’s a scary statistic, as the figure highlights the extent of the changes the High Streets are experiencing as the Covid pandemic accelerated modifications […]
The Real Cost of Slips by Not Planning for Your Commercial Winter Services
Over the years, we have all seen the adverts pointing out the cost to businesses that don’t plan for slips and trips, but we often don’t appreciate the actual costs behind such situations. Unfortunately, as a winter maintenance services provider, we often hear some horror stories from business owners from circumstances where unexpected winter weather […]
Don’t Get Caught in the Shortages This Winter
It’s not hard at the moment to find an article or a blog about the UK experiencing the worse labour shortage since 1997. Contributing factors to this situation are predominately the demand on recruitment levels following the reopening of businesses after pandemic restrictions were lifted. In addition, fewer EU workers are travelling to Britain because […]
We are now members of the National Winter Service Research Group (NWSRG).
We are delighted to announce that we have recently been accepted as a Technical and Advisory Group (TAG) member of the National Winter Service Research Group (NWSRG). The NWSRG is a members group dedicated to advancing understanding of best practices for winter service delivery, taking the best from currently available knowledge, and supplementing gaps with new knowledge and […]
Get Ahead with a Winter Maintenance Plan for 2021/22
Thanks to unforeseen circumstances, businesses have experienced significant disruption over the past year caused by the pandemic closures, opening and restrictions. So, it is only natural that after all the interruptions and with the COVID-19 impact seemingly diminishing, to endeavour to reduce business risk and maximise productivity through robust business continuity strategies. It is remarkable […]
The Winter Specialist in Control
We are expanding our operational team in our AccuGrit HQ, we will be monitoring our operations 24/7 from our control room. We are investing in the best technology and the best people to control our operations. These quotes sum up well the use of a control room. “A control room is a place where a […]
AccuGrit Innovation and Central UK Hubs!
AccuGrit has two Offices and Strategic salt stores, one being our Central UK location in Leicestershire, couldn’t be better located to support our UK wide Gritting and Snow Clearing operation in keeping the public and staff safe across public and private sector sites when there is a risk of Ice or Snow. Our second office […]
