showed a continuous improvement towards
safety within the workplace and on or near the
railway.
Colas Rail set about creating a means to
gain robust and constructive feedback from
the business on how to improve safety and
sustainability within the industry. From this, the
Safety and Sustainability Challenge was born.
To do this, Colas needed to embed a culture
of continuous improvement and empowerment
within graduates and apprentices and instil the
message that their voices are powerful and that
they can make a positive change in improving
the safety and sustainability within the rail
industry.
The project takes place across all three of
Colas’ divisions and spans every office and
depot within the organisation. It includes all
individuals on Early Careers programmes,
including graduates and apprentices.
A consortium of ABB and UK Power Networks
Services was highly commended for having
managed to maintain a Lost Time Injury free
record while delivering 27 sub-stations across
a 140-mile area, from Berkshire to South
Wales, and working 1,200,000 hours. This is
an outstanding accomplishment considering
the nature of the environment in which the
consortium’s employees - the ‘best of the best’
from both companies - work.
Balfour Beatty, principal contractor
delivering the Angerstein signalling renewals
project, working closely with Siemens and its
subcontractors, is responsible for managing
the interfaces which this collaboration brings,
especially the safety of all those involved.
Realising a clear opportunity to continuously
improve on project performance, learning
and embedding lessons learnt during earlier
projects, the Angerstein project was successfully
commissioned in April 2019, on time, to budget
and without injury at any point - achieving Zero
Harm and sending Everyone Home Safe Every
Day. A result that was well worthy of a Highly
Commended certificate.
Community Engagement
Network Rail’s Caroline Murdoch, director of
communications, was the next judge invited by
Julia Bradbury to make her presentation. Aided
by ACoRP chief executive Jools Townsend,
Caroline had decided that Story Contracting,
which has been working hard to remove the
stigma of mental health, would be a worthy
winner of the award.
The driver was simple - no-one should have
to face a mental health problem alone. To gain
buy-in from staff, Story held workshops with
employees from all levels of its business to
identify ways this could best be achieved. It had
to be something sustainable, that would first
of all make a tangible difference to people in
the local area, and it needed to be a long-term
commitment to employee wellbeing.
To enable this, Story set up a strategic
partnership with MIND, the mental health
charity, which provides advice and support
to empower anyone experiencing a mental
health problem. MIND also campaigns to
improve services, raise awareness and promote
understanding of mental health.Story Contracting
won the Community
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