{"id":61806,"date":"2019-08-16T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T08:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=61806"},"modified":"2019-08-16T09:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T08:30:26","slug":"safety-smart-motorways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/safety-smart-motorways\/61806\/","title":{"rendered":"Kier Highways reaches safety milestone on smart motorways"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kier.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kier<\/a> Highways smart motorway projects have reached a safety milestone after over one million working hours without a reportable injury<\/h2>\n<p>M20 J3-5 in the south-east and M6 J13-15 in the Midlands both achieved the safety milestone within weeks of each other and put this success down to hosting successful engagement sessions and the commitment and dedication from all staff on both sites.<\/p>\n<p>Since the M20 project started in May 2018, 1,996 people have been inducted and there are currently 250 operatives working on site. In addition to this, the team has worked 870,000 hours without any lost-time injuries. The Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) remains at zero at this site.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Crofts, Kier Highways head of safety, health and environment, said: \u201cSuch impressive health and safety performance reminds us that, when we all work together and focus on health &amp; safety without compromising, it is possible to ensure everyone goes home safe and well every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M6 J13-15 carried out several collaborative health and safety initiatives focusing on the most important choice people make each day \u2013 the choice to work safely. The sessions were well attended and covered a variety of topics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/safety-working-at-height\/60938\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including safety in design<\/a>, choosing to be resilient in changing situations and stroke awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Following the two weeks of presentations, the health and safety team managed four stand-down days, where all operations stop for a day of briefings and team building, this covered over 200 operatives and site-based personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Steve added: \u201cEngagement with workforce and supply chain is key to understanding the culture that exists and ensuring everybody understands and lives by the mantra that nothing is so important that it cannot be done safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Kier Highways smart motorway projects have reached a safety milestone after over one million working hours without a reportable injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[676,432,472,806,753],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-health-safety","9":"tag-kier","10":"tag-road-improvements","11":"tag-safety"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kier Highways reaches safety milestone on smart motorways<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two Kier Highways smart motorway projects have reached a safety milestone after over one million working hours without a reportable injury\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/safety-smart-motorways\/61806\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kier Highways reaches safety milestone on smart motorways\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two Kier Highways smart motorway projects have reached a safety milestone after over one million working hours without a reportable injury\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/safety-smart-motorways\/61806\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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