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Company facts
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Legal identity
- Legal name: Hard Hat Recruitment Agency Limited.
- Trading name: Hard Hat.
- Company number: 16435733.
- Registered in England and Wales.
- VAT registration number: 494 3315 77.
- ICO data protection registration: ZB903731.
- Company type: private company limited by shares.
- Founded: 2025.
Contact and address
- Registered office: Building 7 Floor 5, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5YG, United Kingdom.
- Operating office: Building 7 Floor 5, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5YG, United Kingdom.
- Telephone: +44 20 7870 8171.
- Email: [email protected].
- Website: https://hardhat.site.
- Office hours: Monday to Friday, 07:00 to 18:00.
- Out-of-hours labour line operates for live site shortfalls.
Directors
- Director: Andrew Elliott. Role: Co-founder and Director.
- Director: Robert Dolan. Role: Co-founder and Director.
- Both directors worked in construction before founding the company.
Coverage area
- Primary coverage: London and the M25 corridor.
- Secondary coverage: Surrey, Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex.
- Local hubs include Croydon, Sutton, Kingston, Guildford, Woking, Staines, Slough, Reading, Watford, Milton Keynes.
- Permanent white-collar placements are handled UK-wide.
- Temporary labour is supplied within commuting distance of the worker's home address.
Insurance
- Employers' liability insurance: £10,000,000.
- Public liability insurance: £5,000,000.
- Professional indemnity insurance: £2,000,000.
- Cyber liability insurance: £250,000.
- Certificates are issued to clients on request.
Engagement models
- Temporary labour supply, charged at an hourly or daily charge rate.
- Contract placements for fixed-duration site and office roles.
- Permanent placements, charged as a percentage of first-year salary.
- Temp-to-perm transfers with a defined transfer fee.
- Managed labour supply for multi-site or ongoing programmes.
- Timesheets run on a Sunday-ending weekly cycle.
- Standard client payment terms are agreed in writing before supply begins.
Accreditations and memberships
- Constructionline: Gold registration in progress.
- Cyber Essentials certified.
- Armed Forces Covenant signatory.
- Ban The Box supporter.
- TEAM Recruitment Network member.
- V-I-A (Verified International Agency) member.
Compliance
- Right to Work checks are completed on every worker before their first shift.
- CSCS or equivalent card status is verified before placement.
- Trade tickets and plant cards are recorded with expiry dates and re-checked automatically.
- Worker records include references, qualifications, and site induction history.
- An audit trail is retained for every placement and timesheet.
Trade categories supplied
- General labour: labourers, skilled labourers, welfare operatives, gatemen.
- Traffic and site control: traffic marshals, banksmen.
- Groundworks: groundworkers, slab layers, drainage operatives, steel fixers.
- Plant operation: 360 excavator operators, telehandler operators, forklift drivers, hoist operators, CPCS plant operators.
- Wet trades: bricklayers, plasterers, screeders.
- Carpentry and finishes: carpenters, dryliners, painters and decorators, floor layers.
- Mechanical and electrical: electricians, plumbers, pipefitters, MEP operatives.
- Specialist trades: scaffolders, roofers, fire stoppers, demolition operatives.
- Supervision: site supervisors, site managers, project managers, contracts managers.
- Commercial and technical: quantity surveyors, estimators, planners, design managers.
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