Lean learning sessions
To help you enhance and embed your lean awareness, Kimberley Coxon has arranged sessions for the next year until March 2024, focusing on different lean tools. All sessions will be held virtually and are open to everyone including Octavius employees, our suppliers and customers. If you would like more information, get in touch with Kimberley…
Rail Wellbeing Live registration is now open
Rail Wellbeing Live is back bigger and better ever and for the first time ever spread across three days on Tuesday 7th, Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th November 2023. They’ll be 50 free virtual sessions that you can pick and mix, focusing on advice on diet, sleep, stress, mental health, fitness, breathing, gut health, relaxation techniques, fatigue,…
Safer working with National Highways
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. Highways safety newsletter – September 2023 This edition features the use of DropBlock Ballasts to prevent barriers blowing away in high winds, concrete washout solutions, how to ensure you…
Making the railway accessible for all
Congratulations to our Rail Services team for safely and successfully lifting and installing the new Access for All (AfA) footbridge for Network Rail at Walton on Thames Station. Colleagues worked hard, around the clock over a weekend possession using a 500 tonne crane to lift the main steel elements into place that form the new…
Collaborating together to provide safe and assured delivery
Making sure everyone who works on or near our projects goes home safely every day is at the heart of everything we do. To assure safe delivery of our works every fortnight our R&W team hold a meeting with suppliers, customers and employees to discuss lessons learnt from Near Miss submissions (or referred to as…
Improvement Opportunities (IO) – August 2023
August statistics During the month of June it’s great to see the level of engagement with the IO system continue. There were many good IOs raised which were likely to have prevented accidents or incidents occurring. There were many good suggestions for improvements and proactive actions being undertaken and great feedback following leadership tours. Our…
SHEA performance summary – June 2023
June 2023
Ryde Pier Head Station project is rated gold by our customer
We’re delighted that our Ryde Pier project has received a gold award and top scoring site in the Network Rail Southern region Capital Delivery Route to Gold initiative, following successfully reopening Ryde Pier Head Station earlier this year. The award recognises the team’s hard to successfully overcome several challenges including severe storms to complete heavy…
Providing efficiencies on the M25 – saving over £159,000 by optimising sign installation on the UK’s busiest highway
Our M25 team were tasked to install 25 ROTTMS (Remotely Operated Temporary Traffic Management Signs) onto the UK’s busiest orbital motorway network. As the team progressed with the scope they recognised that traditional methods will require huge costs and significant safety risks associated with the need to carry out several night time surveys. With each…
Leaving a last legacy up North
Thank you to the A1 Wentbridge team for helping the local community and leaving a lasting legacy in West Yorkshire, following officially unveiling a new timber outbuilding, garden furniture and an enhanced garden area for Bless Community Support, in Upton on 11th August 2023. In just three months our team and supply chain transformed the…
Canal cleaning with our partners
We joined forces with other suppliers within the M25 One Community, to help the River and Canal Trust in Enfield create a cleaner and greener environment. The group spent a day collaborating together and were split two teams to remove a significant amount of overgrown floating pennywort. One team worked hard to cut the pennywort,…
September
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