Prepared for Maxime Mvokany, Group Head of HSEQ at Averda. November 2026.
The right PPE on every crew member, every shift. And the record to prove it.
A certified kit for road crews working in heat, and one PPE record across your countries that shows how kit is issued, worn, replaced and returned. Built around what you told us on 30 October.
What you told us
Six things we took away from our first call. Each one links to where this page answers it.
Improve how PPE is supplied, how it is used and how long it lasts.
Answered in Kit by role Cooling vest concept and Cost per month of protection
See how PPE is actually consumed. A small price premium is fine if the visibility is real.
Answered in The PPE record and The HSEQ view
A business case that holds up when budgets are tight.
Answered in What it’s worth
An honest answer on one supplier across markets versus buying locally in each country.
Answered in Three ways to buy
Protection for crews on foot in summer heat, light enough not to become a burden.
Answered in Kit by role Cooling vest concept, with what we can and can’t promise yet
Knowing that someone sweeping a street alone is OK.
Addressed in Heat and lone working
We answer the first four directly. For heat, we show what the kit does today. Lone-worker monitoring and active cooling we would test with your crews before promising anything.
The kit
One certified kit, chosen by role
Core items are certified to EN standards and ready to sample. Pick a role to see its kit, then choose how you would roll it out.
Optional upgrades
For comfort, supervisors, sun and sustainability. Outlined ones suit this role.Class 2 applies to solid fluorescent yellow or orange. Two-tone versions, as in some photos, are Class 1.
Colours in the photos are catalogue samples. Averda colours and logo placement on request.
Gloves, eyewear and respiratory protection can stay with your approved suppliers. The PPE record tracks them all the same.
Heat and lone working
Heat is designed into this kit. The lightest top is 130 g/m² and dries fast, the shoes have a breathable mesh upper, and the sun hat, neck tube and long sleeves cut direct sun.
Active cooling and lone-worker devices are a different matter. Both need testing with your crews in real conditions before anyone promises results. For cooling we have a vest concept from earlier design work. It is not a product yet, and we would rather test it with your crews than sell it.
See the cooling vest conceptThe PPE record
Where PPE records live today
PPE is the last line in the hierarchy of controls, so it has to be on the worker, in date, every shift. Incidents already live in your HSE system. Issuance usually lives in a spreadsheet per country. Flip the switch to see one worker on one record.
| Employee | Site | Item | Issued | Next due | Signed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rafiq H. | Abu Dhabi | Safety shoes 42 | 14/03 | ? | paper |
| Rafiq Hossain | Al Ain | Safety shoes 43 | 02/06 | ask site | |
| Suresh K. | Abu Dhabi | Hi-vis T-shirt x3 | 11/01 | 11/07?? | yes |
| Imran A. | Mussafah | Vest | left company? kit? | ||
| Joseph M. | Abu Dhabi | Trousers L to XL | 20/08 | no | |
| Abdul Karim | Al Ain | Cap | 05/05 | n/a | yes |
- Hi-vis T-shirt, light, x2Issued 2 Jun, replace by 2 DecIn date
- Hi-vis work trousers, size LIssued 2 Jun, replace by 2 DecIn date
- Safety shoe, breathable, size 43Issued 2 Jun, replace by 19 NovDue in 9 days
- Hi-vis capIssued 2 JunIn date
- Work gloves (your supplier)Issued 28 OctIn date
Every line comes from one log of signed events. When an auditor or a municipal client asks whether a worker had compliant PPE on a given day, the answer takes seconds, not a week of spreadsheets.
Live at Talabat across eight markets
The same platform runs gear issuance, exchanges, returns and reporting for Talabat’s field workforce. Time per kit issued dropped from about 3 minutes to 40 seconds.
Your own instance
Averda’s data sits in its own environment. No shared tables, no cross-client benchmarks, and every access by our staff is logged and visible to your admins.
Stage 1 of 4
Issue PPE at the depot
Each role has a kit template. The storekeeper scans each item to the worker, the worker confirms on a tablet in their own language, and depot stock moves the moment they confirm. Walk through one issue.
| Item | On hand | Reorder at |
|---|
Falling below the reorder point raises a replenishment request to the country store.
The worker’s confirmation is the evidence. Every later replacement, field check and return resolves against a dated, signed receipt with the item and size on it, in a language the worker reads.
Stage 2 of 4
Replace on time, for the right reason
You set the replacement cycle per item. The record lists what falls due, reminds the worker and supervisor, and captures why each item is replaced. Nothing is charged to workers: losses are tracked per site, so managers see where they happen.
| Worker | Item | Due | Status |
|---|
Pick a reason to see who approves it, where the old item goes and what the record learns.
Without reasons, every replacement looks the same and loss is invisible. With them you can tell wear from damage from loss per site, and procurement gets real lifespan data per item instead of a guess.
Price per month of protection, not price per item
Replacement records give every item a real lifespan, and that changes the procurement question. Compare two safety shoes.
Shoe A
Shoe B
Prices and lifespans here are illustrative. Your own figures come from your replacement records after one season.
Stage 3 of 4
Field checks on the route
Supervisors check PPE where the work happens. A check is a few taps on a phone, needs no paperwork, and lands in the same record as the issue. Mark what you see.
Photo evidence is optional. Assisted photo checks are off by default; when switched on they suggest, and the supervisor confirms every result.
Every check becomes a dated observation. Check counts and pass rates feed your leading indicators, and repeat gaps point to a fit, comfort or supply problem rather than a disciplinary one.
Stage 4 of 4
Exit, reuse and recycling
When a contract ends or a worker transfers, the return is booked automatically. The storekeeper grades each item: reissue after cleaning, recycle, or not returned. Grade the items.
Footwear is never reissued. Recycled textile and footwear are weighed and reported, ready for your GRI waste disclosure, and can run through Averda’s own recycling streams.
The last day is when PPE disappears. A booked return and a graded check-in turn write-offs into stock, and give you counted end-of-life volumes instead of estimates.
The HSEQ view
Every stage above writes to one record. This is that record read back by country, site and role. Change a filter and every figure recomputes from the sample records.
| Site | Workers | Overdue items | Checks passed | Returned at exit |
|---|
- Monthly HSEQ packGroup HSEQ, PDF and data
- Weekly overdue listEach site manager
- Quarterly consumption and lifespanProcurement
Data leaves by API or scheduled file, so it can sit in Power BI next to your incident data from Benchmark Gensuite. We scope that connection in the pilot.
Kit coverage and overdue items are leading indicators you can manage every week, not lagging ones you read after an incident. Because issue, checks and returns write to the same record, the dashboard and the depot floor agree.
Making it work
What it’s worth per year
Move the sliders to your numbers. The assumptions are deliberately conservative and shown in full.
Safety outcomes are left out on purpose. We will not put a price on them.
Three ways to buy
You asked for the price of the kit alone, the kit with the software, and the software on its own. Here is what each includes. We price them once we have your volumes.
Best when
What it includes
An honest note on one supplier versus local buying: one supplier usually wins on consistency, certification and admin across countries, not always on unit price against a local supplier. Where a local item is cheaper and good enough, keep it and track it in the record.
What we need to price it
- A few representative PPE and uniform items from one or two markets, with annual volumes
- Specifications, materials or reference photos
- Current or target unit prices, if you can share them
- Current delivery terms and delivery locations
Existing procurement files are perfectly fine.
Start with one depot
The record runs on the PPE you already have, so the pilot does not wait for new kit. Kit samples run alongside it.
Configure
- Roles and kit templates
- Replacement cycles per item
- Worker list imported
- Depot contact trained
Go live
- Issue, replace and field checks running
- Existing PPE captured as a baseline
- Weekly check-in with the depot
Prove
- Coverage and overdue items against the baseline
- Power BI feed tested
- Rules adjusted
Decide
- Results reviewed with you
- Go or no-go
- Rollout plan by country
Alongside: samples of the kit items you pick. We confirm sample timing as soon as you choose them.
What we need from Averda
- A pilot depot and one contact there
- The worker list for that depot: ID, name, role, start and end dates
- Your current PPE list and replacement rules
- One owner on the HSEQ side
What you have by week 8
- Every worker and item at the pilot depot on one record
- Coverage, overdue items and check results you can show the executive committee
- Real lifespans for the first items replaced
- A clear yes or no, based on your own numbers
Thirty minutes to fit this to Averda
Pick the pilot depot, confirm roles and kit, and agree what success looks like.
Hamdan Albakr, Boolanga Business. hamdan@boolanga.com, +36 30 553 8222
