Raising industry standards
The overriding aim of our strategy is to make sure that everyone connected with and affected by HS2 is always safe and that their health and wellbeing are not put at risk by anything we do. We can’t accept any actions or behaviours that conflict with or compromise, our goal.
At the same time, we keep HS2’s strategic goal of setting new standards for health, safety and security at the forefront of our minds as we build a culture of learning, innovation and best practice. We are building our legacy as we move through the different stages of construction to reflect the lessons we learn, find better ways of putting health, safety and wellbeing at the heart of the project and check our progress in developing outstanding practice. We invest in our people so they have the right skills and behaviours to provide outstanding health and safety and help us build our legacy.
We will create a safer, healthier environment and build our legacy as we move through the phases of construction.
How our strategy will raise standards
Building a culture of trust
We will always conduct our investigations into health and safety incidents in a fair, transparent and open way, focusing on learning and improving our performance, not blaming others. This helps our workforce to feel confident and motivated to report unsafe behaviour, systems and working conditions.
Capturing and sharing good practice
We will capitalise on our collective experience and collaborate to identify, celebrate and share good practice that helps us to improve the way we eliminate and mitigate key risks across HS2. We allow our supply chain and the wider industry to access our lessons learned and good practice to drive improvements across the infrastructure sector.
View HS2’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing Learning Legacy library.
Inspiring innovation
We will create the time, opportunity and space for our people to develop innovative solutions to key health and safety risks and issues. We use challenges, events, competitions and day-to-day project-wide collaboration to add value to the programme and take health and safety practice beyond the ‘best achieved’ on other major projects.
Find out more about the innovation in the design and build of HS2.
Accelerating learning from incidents
We will continue to improve our incident investigation processes to capture, share and embed learning from failures and incidents quickly and effectively. We work together to identify and understand the root causes of incidents to prevent repeats and create a safer, healthier working environment for everyone.
Developing skills and behaviours
We will always be clear about the skills and behaviours we expect from our workforce and work with all our supply chain to develop them and respect the diverse needs and backgrounds of everyone working on the project. We recognise and reward positive behaviours that show Safe at Heart in action and contribute to our goal.
Sharing best practice from HS2
Visit our Safe at Heart learning library to view some of our best practice learning materials.
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