Health, safety and security
The health and safety of everyone involved in our work or affected by it is a key concern. We are established as a best-practice organisation, fully compliant with applicable UK and European legislation and standards, and continually improving.
We are integrating health and safety considerations into every London 2012 Games planning, design and construction operation.
We are providing a safe and secure environment during construction and decommissioning works. We are designing venues, facilities, infrastructure and transport to help eliminate health and safety hazards during construction, operation,maintenance and decommissioning, and to meet the needs of operational security during the Games. We want to go as far as possible to prevent illnesses, injuries, business losses and environmental harm due to unplanned events in our premises and on our sites.
In 2008 our aims were realised when, with more than 2,000 workers already on site, we logged one period of more than two million hours worked without a reportable accident.
We are committed to enhancing the well-being of all involved in the project work, which is why we have established new occupational health facilities for the workforce.
A healthy workforce is a productive workforce and we want to work in partnership with the unions as we move forward. Every project has a clear strategy for worker engagement.
Developing a new health and safety culture survey and forming a Leadership Team involving senior representatives of the Tier 1 contractors are examples of the radical, systematic and comprehensive programme to which we are committed.
The combination of personal leadership and worker involvement in tackling the risks that they face is improving our performance – and is how we can sustain our high standards. We are working with all our staff, partners, suppliers and their workforces to embed this culture and give the highest priority to health, safety and security issues.
