Thursday 10 July 2025 | JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel
Thursday 10 July 2025 | JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel
The Wixoe Pumping Station project was particularly challenging due to the high-risk electrical environment and the requirement that the facility remained operational throughout construction. Not only did the team commit huge effort to ensuring onsite safety, but they promoted a positive culture of Health, Safety and Wellbeing behaviours and management, where observations, near misses and incidents were fully reported and investigated. This led to industry wide sharing of lessons learned and the introduction of innovative solutions and initiatives, such as the permit to drill system, rolled out companywide to effect positive changes for the project and beyond.
HOCHTIEF-MURPHY Joint Venture continues to set the benchmark for performance on major infrastructure schemes through its “One Team, One Spirit” ethos that enables lean and empowered teams to consistently achieve and exceed client outcomes.
The fresh, proactive and transparent approach towards HSW is evidenced by the decreasing AFR rates, increase in feedback cards, our commitment towards mental health with the introduction of the mental health committee, the results of our Cultural Pulse Check, our commitment to training and development, our involvement of the operatives during our emergency drill programme, and our recent ISO recertification audit results with 0 non-conformances.
We developed an innovative, risk-focused hazard and rehearsal school uniquely designed to deliver a walk and talk approach to highlight site-specific risks. Everyone attending the site was inducted through the school and briefed by our Safety Coaches.
The school was cited as ‘best practice’ following visits by National Highways, the Concrete Roads Framework Working group and peer group organisations.
Tackling mental health was key. We established a dedicated mental health wellbeing room and trained 12 mental health first aiders. We engaged with mental health charities and held discussion sessions about a range of issues affecting health and wellbeing.
Over recent years, our Client has faced challenging maintenance/end of life asset replacement works on critical dam safety schemes, many of which have been achievable through traditional construction methodologies. This project demonstrates an extremely challenging, high-risk job that went away from tradition and required “outside the box”, collaborative thinking. The success of this element of the project demonstrates the capabilities and knowledge within the supply chain with continuous improvement and safety being at the forefront of everything we do.
SRP stands as a trailblazer in the UK, the first to develop and implement such advanced safety technology in the construction industry. This innovation is not just a milestone for SRP and Proicere but a giant leap forward for construction safety management worldwide. We are not just planning for today but shaping the future of safe construction practices.""
This innovation has been shared with other Sellafield projects as LFE
Safety of our workforce is paramount.