Open AccessEnsuring health, safety and well-being on the UK’s Thames Tideway tunnel programme
Author(s) -
A Alder,
Steve Hails,
Alex Vaughan
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
proceedings of the institution of civil engineers. civil engineering/proceedings of ice. civil engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1751-7672
pISSN - 0965-089X
DOI - 10.1680/jcien.21.00186
Subject(s) - excellence , best practice , water safety , engineering , public relations , political science , law , ecology , water quality , biology
Due for completion in 2025, the £4.2 billion Thames Tideway tunnel programme is one of the largest and most complex civil engineering schemes in the world. This paper reports on how the delivery team ensured the health, safety and well-being of over 4000 people who worked on the programme during the first 6 years of its 9 year delivery. The team collaborated to create a strong safety culture, focusing on excellence in getting the basics right, sharing and adopting best practice, and learning from near misses and incidents. The result has been a very good level of safety performance.