Despite the snow, the ice, the black ice, the traffic jams, the road accidents, the diversions, ASW continued to work above and beyond to attend all their clients sites throughout the winter. Carl Hendy Director of ASW commented "at times, situations were difficult, very difficult, however we never had it in our minds that we would not be able to get to our sites. With the aid of chains, shovels, tractors and good old team work, we always got the end result we needed, and that was not to let our customers down. When the situations were bad and more so around the snow days, we had our tractors towing our vehicles up inclines, we were manually gritting routes so our vehicles could get from A to B. The days were longer, very long, but we were always deterimned to achieve our objective". ASW also completed a rock salt delivery service which again, against the elements they managed to attend to every order within a 24 hour period which included delivery. Carl Hendy commented "offering both a gritting and sales of rock salt service through the most extreme weather conditions, we feel we played our part to not only the local public but to businesses in keeping them open, operating and compliant through a difficult time for all businesses". This Winter has been the wake up call for the whole of South Wales. With the Winters gradually getting worse over the last 4 years, the last Winer has really made businesses throughout South Wales think about the implementation of Winter Maintenance Programs to safeguard themselves from slips, trips and falls. Facilities Managers and Health and Safety Managers have been biting their nails over the last couple years, worrying about the Winter. Will they get a claim? has the company employees they have been using to spread grit actually contracted to complete such a high risk duty? Will they slip? Is their business really geared and prepared for the winter? With the zero tollerance towards Health & Safety, winter maintenance programs are becoming more recognised as the perfect solution towards their headaches for the last few winters. ASW are already in consultation with many businesses in providing services already in preparation for next winter. ASW would like to 'Thank' all their customers and business customers for their custom throughout the Winter and look forward to working with them all in the future!