Health and Safety Management System
Policies, procedures and tools that collectively define the management of health and safety on a project.
Health and Safety Management System 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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Health and safety by design: managing risk on Enabling Works
High Speed Two’s (HS2’s) aspiration is to manage health like safety. The Enabling Works South contractor approached this is by incorporating safety and health risks in a master register, coded by hazard type. Through sharing with the supply chain, nearly 20% of risks were identified as being related to potential occupational health hazards that traditionally…
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Real-time virtual site tour system
The pandemic led to the need for significant advancement in virtual working. As a result, Team Old Oak introduced a virtual hands-free streaming solution that allows members of the Integrated Project Team to view and interact with the site area ‘virtually’ in real time, from the safety of their computers. This reduced the need to…
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Improving security welfare sees reduction in incidents
An annual review of Safety Health Wellbeing and Environment (SHWE) by the Enabling Works Contracts in Area South identified a disproportionate number of incidents involving security guards. A subsequent investigation found that security guards were not considered to be construction workers and were perceived as low risk. They were treated differently to other members of…
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Eliminating and managing risk associated with site security access gates
Following a number of incidents relating to the use of site security access gates (two of which included lost time incidents, one of which was RIDDOR reportable), a trend was identified which prompted further investigation into gate design, use and maintenance. The investigation highlighted a variety of opportunities relating to the management of site security…
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Ethical Construction
Ethical concerns are traditionally managed by parent companies. In a joint venture, a lack of a common approach in capturing, investigating and analysing trends can lead to a fractured process. Costain Skanska joint venture (CSjv) and HS2 have worked together to deliver an ethics system to drive values and behaviours throughout the JV and suppliers.…
