Health and Safety Assurance
Monitoring and assurance of the Principal Designer during the Design Phase and the Principal Contractors during the Construction Phase.
Health and Safety Assurance Resources
Resources include papers, videos, research summaries and good practice documents produced by authors from across the HS2 Family to capture learning, good practice and innovation from the HS2 programme
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Occupational Health & Wellbeing: additional site vigilance during Covid
On the 24th March 2020, CSjv initially paused in response to the introduction of “lockdown” measures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. CSjv recommenced where safe to do so, introducing new ways of working to ensure compliance with social distancing guidance to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. To ensure these changes were successful, a…
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Rethinking fire emergency means of escape design for disabled people at HS2 stations using a bespoke rapid modelling tool
High Speed Two (HS2) has set strategic goals to achieve new standards in customer experience placing people at the heart of design and ensuring HS2 is accessible to all passengers. In response to these objectives and in developing the Old Oak Common station design, HS2 identified a need to better understand how to enable safe…
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Temporary Works awareness course for designers
All ‘Designer’ roles are required to plan, manage, monitor and coordinate both temporary and permanent works design. CDM says Designers must ensure that they have considered the impact of their design in terms of health and safety during construction work’. HS2 Ltd developed a temporary works course for its supply chain, for all designers of…
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Implementing remote site inspections
During the first Covid-19 lockdown starting in March 2020, construction on High Speed Two (HS2) continued. In order to enable safe working practices on site, social distancing and protection of the clinically vulnerable, NEC supervisors utilised video conferencing with contractors to remotely conduct inspections and witness testing as per their duties under the NEC3 contract.…
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Delivering first line of defence assurance – embedding a design team as a ‘Critical Friend’ within the contractor team
A comprehensive assurance process was developed for design and construction activities on High Speed Two (HS2) - with suppliers providing a first line of defence for a right first-time product. Contractor teams were required to deliver against a diverse and emerging scope of works to challenging programme constraints. To make the best design and CDM…
