Laing O’Rourke office staff to face temperature checks

Thermal cameras are already being used on a number of O’Rourke sites including HS2 and Hinkley Point C and the firm’s manufacturing facility Explore Industrial Park.

The cameras have been developed by subsidiary Select Plant and are installed into purpose built modular units for use at site entrances.

For offices they are ceiling mounted in access points to make temperature checking a quick and easy part of arriving to work.

Individuals stand in view of a camera with a slight pause. Skin temperature is measured within a second, with a green light indicating that the person is within normal range.

An audible alert together with an automatic notification to the system’s secure administrator is triggered where a temperature is above the upper limit.

The units are now being rolled out in a phased sequence to a number of projects, with Royal Liverpool Hospital, Brighton 3Ts, Whiteleys, Soho Place and Olympia installing them in the coming weeks.

The thermal screening ‘plug and play’ modular units will also be available for hire to other contractors.

updated: 08/06/2020