TRANSPORT & LOGISTICS: CROSSRAIL
ago. His experience includes a stint with the Engineering
Employers Federation (EEF), a UK manufacturing
association, and Procter & Gamble.
“Crossrail holds the philosophy of sharing best practice
in health, safety and environment. Having taken lessons
learned from the Olympics, we feel it incumbent upon
us to take these lessons and pass them on to other large
infrastructure projects, such as Thames Highway, High
Speed 2 (HS2), and Crossrail 2, if and when that comes
round. We meet with members of these projects, so they
can learn from the early stages of the Crossrail project and
help them structure their own future plans based on our
experiences. We also offer our best practice guides, which
identify opportunities for improvement, not just on Crossrail
but in the wider industry.”
“Crossrail expects all
contractors to apportion
an appropriate amount
towards management of
health and safety”
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rossrail’s best practice guides are freely available
for download from the company website. “When I
arrived at Crossrail I said we had an opportunity to
build on what we learned from the Olympics. For too long,
we have whispered ‘health’ and shouted ‘safety’. I wanted to
get greater parity between the two. The Olympics started
the process by having mechanisms in place to allow great
conversations to emerge. We talked about ‘employee health’
and ‘worker health’. We’ve built upon that.”
“We insist on a certain level of clinical occupational
health provision and expect all Crossrail employees to have
access to health and wellbeing services, as they did on the
Olympics construction project. In addition to this minimum
standard, we also require our contractors to be members
of the Constructing Better Health scheme, ensuring that
occupation health providers have SEQOHS (Safe Effective
Quality Occupational Health Standard) accreditation.
Because we are twice the size of the Olympics project, we
had to adapt our model while maintaining the same level of
quality, so we went down the CBH route.”
“We want to continue to reduce the incidents of
accidents and ill-health on Crossrail. One thing that we are
particularly proud of, and believe we have pioneered, is our
Health and Safety Performance Index, or HSPI. A process
that considers a number of leading indicators within the six
pillars of