Health and safety
Looking after the health and safety of everyone who works on, or is impacted by, HS2 is at the heart of everything we do.
Looking after the health and safety of everyone who works on, or is impacted by, HS2 is at the heart of everything we do.
Health and safety is one of our 4 core values.
It means caring for our workforce, communities along the route, future passengers and public, and also setting new industry standards, and finding innovative solutions. We want to set the bar higher than ever before and create an environment where no one gets hurt.
Safe at heart brings together and represents everything we aim to achieve in health, safety and wellbeing at HS2 throughout the life cycle of the project. It sets out our:
You can read our health and safety policy to find out more.
We organise our health and safety commitments around 7 focus areas:
You can find out more about these 7 focus areas in our health and safety approach.
We don’t underestimate the impact HS2 will have on our many neighbours and their environment along the route. It’s one of our 10 community commitments to make health and safety a priority for our communities and our workforce.
Working with our supply chain and our neighbours we will address health, safety, wellbeing and environmental concerns and needs with sensitivity by:
If you have concerns about health, safety and wellbeing in your area please contact our helpdesk. Find out how we work with communities in our community engagement strategy.
Thousands of people will be working on the design and construction of HS2. We will protect their right to return home safe, well and unharmed at the end of every day by ensuring:
We’re working with world-class partners who share our values, commitment to outstanding health and safety and core belief that everyone has the right to go home unharmed.
The experience, skills, professionalism and innovation our supply chain brings to health and safety is critical to the success of HS2. We will empower all of our suppliers – large and small – to exceed existing norms and make sure we’re all continuously focused on our goal to create a railway designed, built and operated to the highest health, safety and security standards.
We have set out our core expectations of our suppliers in our supply chain health and safety approach. You can read this and access other resources specific to the supply chain in our learning library.