Health and Safety
One of the most important measures of our commitment to deliver sustainable communities is our health and safety performance.
This commitment extends from our Board, to our employees and through them to our subcontractors and clients. At the core of our performance is our system for evaluating and managing, by appropriate control measures, the health and safety risks posed by our operations.
We have responded to the challenges set by the Government with regard to reporting and have published a detailed account of our health and safety performance over the reporting period. This approach has enabled us to continue to be viewed as amongst the leading health and safety performers within the industry sectors in which we work.
Please click here to view full details of our 2002 Health and Safety Performance and our strategy and approach to the management of health and safety issues.
An overview of our health and safety performance for 2002 is provided below:
- Our Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) accident frequency rate rose to 0.45 in 2002 compared with 0.41 in 2001. This was mainly due to the inclusion of Carillion Rail. However, it should be noted that Carillion Rail reduced their accident frequency rate by 12% over 2001 performance.
- Our RIDDOR accidents increased from 310 in 2001 to 408 in 2002.
- Our major accidents reduced from 81 in 2001 to 70 in 2002, such that the percentage of majors to all RIDDOR accidents fell from 27% in 2001 to 17% in 2002.
- Regrettably there were three tragic fatalities during 2002:
- A Highways worker stepped out of the wrong side of his vehicle into live traffic in January 2002.
- A French machine operator, building a road tunnel in the Alps, was killed when shot-crete fell onto his machine in August 2002.
- A Pakistani machine operator was killed when his machine toppled over and crushed him when building a road in Oman in November.
- We were prosecuted four times for breaches of Health and Safety Legislation.
- Crown House Engineering won the Royal Society for the Protection of Accidents (RoSPA) President’s Award for the 2nd year
- RoSPA Gold Awards were won by:
- Carillion Rail
- Carillion Building – N/W & Scotland
- Carillion Building – Midlands and N/E
- Carillion Building Special Projects
- A RoSPA Silver Award was won Carillion Building London and South
- Sword of Honour at NAP project at Cheltenham
- Building London were highly commended in the HSE’s Working Well Together Campaign
- Highly commended in Safety Management for the 3rd year in the Construction News, Quality in Construction Awards
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