Hard working holiday is injury free

Christmas works delivered safely and ahead of schedule. A huge thank you to everyone who was out delivering critical maintenance works over Christmas supporting our projects. All were completed without injury, ensuring that everyone was able to return home safely to their families and friends during the festive period.       Around the country…

Safer working with National Highways – January updates

The latest edition of the Highways Safety Hub newsletter is now available. To access the document click the image on the right or the link below. This edition features many interesting articles including supporting ex-offenders into employment, the National Highways  annual work-related road risk conference that is being held on the 21st March at the…

Rail Wellbeing Wednesdays – February’s session

The first session of 2024 focused on the benefits of running. Harry Morgan, host of Podcast and YouTube channel JOG ON, discussed how to start running if you have never ran before. He suggested popular running plans, and what happens to our body and brain during a run.  Also the long term mental benefits of…

Festive Support in our Communities

In the run up to Christmas, members of our all our delivery teams gave up their time to help serve local communities and donated much needed items to ensure everyone had a joyful Christmas. Our HS2 project team working in Aylesbury  donated £150 worth of gifts to the Inspire Bucks Children Gift Appeal! We donated…

Safely back to work in 2024

Welcome back! Whether you had some time off or were working we hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. As each of our sites and offices returned to work it was great to see our “Back to Work” Briefings taking place, re-focusing and reminding our team’s of our STOPThink! fundamentals; which are the…

Delighting our customers with safe and efficient response to emergency railway works

A huge well done to our Rail Services team for quickly delivering reactive repairs, safely and on time when the recent poor weather and high winds caused damage to the railway infrastructure.  Our teams have responded to several emergency events and ensured the railway can continue to operate safely and efficiently for passengers.   When…

Creating a greener and cleaner environment with Supply Chain Sustainability school

Free learning resources In collaboration with our partner Supply Chain Sustainability School, we are running a number of sustainability and social value online workshops this year. We recently hosted an ‘Improving Sustainability using Behavioural Science’ webinar and we have another scheduled for later this month that you can join. Watch this space for more sessions,…

Healthy Lifestyle

January’s Health and Wellbeing focus is Healthy Lifestyle. With shorter days, gloomy weather  finding the motivation to be healthier can be hard and the very thought of eating well and exercising can be overwhelming. The stats Only 28-34% of adults aged between 65 and 74 are physically active. High blood pressure accounts for 12% of…

Improvement Opportunities (IO) – December 2023

December statistics During the month of December there were many good IOs raised however, there was a decrease of the level of engagement with the IO System for the second month in a row, in particular the number of business IO’s. Our suppliers contributed to over 7.73% of the overall IO’s raised during the month. Please…

January 2024

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