Established in September 2016, DCON Safety Consultants is a leading independently-owned Built Environmental Safety, Health & Wellbeing Consultancy based in Dublin city centre. Managing director Diarmuid Condon explains more.
The consultancy prioritises and specialises in the highest levels of informed and intelligent advice, senior project resource allocations and compliance assurance. It knows that every project with potential benefits also has potential risks with the art of planning centring on the coordination of these two zones of uncertainty. DCON’s team of highly-experienced construction professionals consistently ensure your best interest and statutory conformity.
DCON is committed to understanding the specific needs, goals and desires of each individual client and project. Upon gaining this special understanding, it commits itself to the implementation of a design and construction management plan that will meet or exceed these requirements. Honesty, integrity, trust and professionalism are the cornerstone of every job.
The company’s greatest resource is its exceptional team of technical construction and safety consultants who provide team-oriented services on an as needed basis. DCON’s consultants and alliances with other key individuals and organisations allow it to support clients in all divisions of design and construction safety.
With DCON, the client is assured of top-level focus from its team of professionals. Bringing recent Lessons Learned from its projects, the company has delivered Pre-Planning & Post Planning Health & Safety and PSDP | CDM Consultancy services to multiple sectors, understanding and managing key success factors and risks. DCON Safety Consultants is relentless in supporting safe outcomes and safe design quality to realise your vision. Our controls approach is rigorous, tackling the big issues head on.
“We’re a one-stop shop safety consultancy,” says Diarmuid Condon, who runs DCON Safety Consultants along with Kelley Smith.
“We offer Health & Safety consultancy advice services to a broad range of clients throughout Ireland. We have some wonderful clients who use our services time and again. Business is good, especially now that the commercial, residential and public service sectors have reactivated themselves.”
The main services provided by DCON Safety Consultants are Project Supervision, Pre-Planning & Post Planning Compliance, Health & Safety Strategy creation and Expert Witness. No project is too simple or too complex for its high-quality consultants who have a wealth of experience in the built environment. Their ability to maximise this vast knowledge and skills base generates distinctive and innovative ideas born out of traditional PSDP service inputs and outputs.
Strategically supporting a positive planning decision is what sets DCON Safety Consultants apart from the competition. Our Draft Construction Management Plan offering provides clients | developers the means to demonstrate a commitment to safety in overall planning, coordination and control of a project from construction commencement to completion. These safeguards seek to support the obligation placed on a client to produce a safe, functional and financially viable project.
DCON Safety Consultants provides its main contractor clients with intelligent, practical and reasonable physical site safety advice so as to support compliance and good practice adherence. Identifying opportunities for improvement and observations of good practice are key inputs and outputs of its service.
The holistic, integrated approach that results from leading edge health and safety strategies provides impetus to unlock substantial benefits for a client in providing a structured, objective and SMART framework for full optimisation through the creation of an environment that embraces custody for health, safety and wellbeing. Thier approach seeks to support the necessary improvement journey by clients in realising improved health, safety and environmental performance, enhanced staff satisfaction from improved performance and control of service delivery and improved risk management and corporate governance, with a clear audit trail.
Finding an expert witness to testify authoritatively on your behalf on safety and health matters is not always easy. DCON Safety Consultants can help thanks to Diarmuid Condon’s expertise in this area. He is a certified and competent safety professional who will work with you to identify exactly what kind of safety expert you need and then use his extensive network of contacts to recruit precisely the right person to protect your interests. Diarmuid brings unique perspectives that encourages, supports and mentors the abilities of his colleagues. He is emblematic of the commitment of his company to provide service excellence to clients, and displays exceptional achievement designing and executing strategic safety plans and systems.
Furthermore, Diarmuid has contributed his invaluable construction expertise to more than 400 different projects over a 20-year period. His extensive client list includes public sector departments, corporate owners, real estate developers, main contractors, design professionals and infrastructural bodies.
A quantity surveyor by qualification and prior to setting up DCON Safety Consultants, Diarmuid was responsible for Safety, Health & Quality consultancy services in Ireland for a global project management | cost management consultancy. “ I was afforded the opportunity to hone my technical and soft skills while working on some of Ireland’s most recognisable projects.”
DCON Safety Consultants impressive client-base includes Hines Ireland, Lioncor Developments, Dalata Hotel Group, daa plc, Maynooth University, MiCiM (UK), Westridge RE, Irish Life, Redrock, Roundhill Capital, various Data Centre clients and many more.
“We would like to take this opportunity to thank them all for their continued support,” Diarmuid concludes.
DCON Safety Consultants
Suite 5,
Fitzwilliam Square East,
Dublin 2.
Telephone: +353 (0)1 6111556 / +353 (0)86 0474289
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.dconsafety.com
This article was published in Building Ireland Magazine, May/June 2020, Vol 6 No 3
