ANTHONY CLARKIN
We have been a fully system scaffold company from inception, we started off with Quick Stage, then we moved to Layer. We have now moved into the safety decking industry as well which is obviously a system-based product. We have been going for over 22 years now and a lot of the guys that were here at the start are still here with us. They started off working at Silverstar as apprentices and they are now working in the office in managerial positions or supervisors on site. We believe that our internal recruitment strategy is one of our biggest strengths. We do not try and poach other scaffolders from other companies or anything like that, we believe that we should nurture and take care of our own. We want our staff to be working for us for a long time. If we need staff, we train them up ourselves and we hope that they have a long and fulfilling career here at Silver Star Services. One of the questions we faced when we decided to go with the JMAC safety decking system was how do we put it up? What do we do about erecting it and taking it down? So, we had discussions with the management team about using external installers, we thought of JMAC and all the other companies that offer this service, however we decided against it, we decided purchase the system and train our own guys on site to erect and dismantle.