Safety
Keeping our workforce safe on-site isn’t just a priority; it’s imbued in everything we do. We’ve evaluated several initiatives looking at different aspects of safety, such as helping colleagues maintain spatial awareness, protect hearing and safely boost productivity while on-site.
This research supports HS2’s Safe At Heart framework, exploring how technology can extend safety at all our sites.
Health and safety passport
Midlands based company Biosite is working with HS2 developing the new initiative to boost health and safety and competency insight across the supply chain.
The new digital ‘Health and Safety Passport System’ (HSPS) will be used initially by all of HS2’s Main Works Civils Contractors to share vital health and safety information across contractors.
Immersive 4D technology
In the safety of an office environment, workers can go on site and explore, discuss and agree the project’s delivery sequence, identify safety issues and agree how to resolve them.
By harnessing the power of cloud-based technology and combining it with unique hazard management technology, HS2 hopes to make its sites even safer as it moves into the full construction phase.
Robot
An innovative onboard robot will improve safety and efficiency on the first two giant tunnelling machines, set to launch early next year.
The Krokodyl robot, working in a similar manner to the robotic arms used in a car factory production line, carries out simple repetitive tasks – removing wooden spacers between tunnel segments and inserting connection dowels – that people would normally do.
Eliminating hearing damage
Eave headsets are designed with revolutionary ‘hear-through’ technology that eliminates the need for a site worker to remove them in order to hear sound around them or talk to colleagues, and so vastly improving their safety, productivity and long term wellbeing.
They also protect hearing and gather noise data. The data is transferred to unique noise mapping software and analysed to produce accurate information about every worker’s noise exposure across the worksite.
Slide 1 of 2: Advanced 4D learning technology enables site teams to identify, record and resolve site hazards from the safety of an office.
Slide 2 of 2: Onboard robot will improve safety and efficiency on two giant tunnelling machines.