Crossrail Learning Legacy

Health and Safety Impact Video – Barry’s Story

The premise of this film is that you are responsible for your own health and safety. If you take dangerous short cuts, you may as well be hurting yourself. Barry is in the end pushing himself off the platform by his own actions. The short film is shown below and is accompanied by discussion not [...]

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Health and Safety Impact Video – Zoey’s Story

The focus of this film is the importance of following permit systems and relying on competent people, especially when working with electrical systems. In his desire to be helpful and show initiative, the new starter (Peter) decides that, rather than waiting for Colin in the plant room to put in plac [...]

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Health and Safety Impact Video – John’s Story

The film uses the term ‘experience may tell you’ to illustrate how easy it is to convince yourself that small breaches of rules won’t lead to you being injured. In the film, you can see two individuals, doing things wrong and each time, they are put right without anyone being harmed. However, [...]

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Health and Safety Impact Video – Steve’s Story

Hot works are well understood as a risk and are normally controlled with a permit process. In this film, a number of unconnected failures occur simultaneously, resulting in rapid escalation and fatal consequences. One of those failures related to something as simple as keeping the working area cle [...]

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Health and Safety Impact Video – Gary’s Story

Mental health is an area that has significant stigma associated with it. One in four people suffer with mental health issues in any given year and the suicide rate in the construction industry greatly exceeds that in wider society. The film illustrates how people you see every day can be suffering i [...]

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Health and Safety Impact Video – Jenny’s Story

This film highlights the fact that the unseen health impact of day to day dust exposure can, in the long run, be much more serious and debilitating than the more obvious health and safety failures. It explores how easy it is to dismiss them at the time and how, by the time the impact is felt it’s [...]

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Overview of Target Zero

Crossrail's overarching health and safety philosophy is captured in Target Zero which seeks to embed health and safety culture into all aspects of the project, built upon a firm foundation of robust standards and guidelines. This learning legacy page sets out the Target Zero principles, the 5 Golden [...]

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