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Healthy Workplaces Working Together – Olympic Park

Safety and health at work is everyone’s concern. It’s good for you. It’s good for business. Healthy Workplaces Working Together – Olympic Park. Louise Brearey HSE, Head of London 2012. 28 March 2012 | Healthy Workplaces Campaign Partnership Meeting. London 2012 – Olympic Park. Headline.

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Healthy Workplaces Working Together – Olympic Park

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  1. Safety and health at work is everyone’s concern. It’s good for you. It’s good for business. Healthy Workplaces Working Together – Olympic Park Louise Brearey HSE, Head of London 2012 28 March 2012 | Healthy Workplaces Campaign Partnership Meeting

  2. London 2012 – Olympic Park

  3. Headline 3 • Some Facts and Figures - Olympic Park • Largest Infrastructure construction site in Europe - £7billion • 2.5 square kilometres (246 hectares) in size - equivalent size to Hyde Park • Will become one of the largest urban parks to be built in Europe for 150 years • 10 rail lines will serve the Olympic Park • 8.35km of waterways in and around Park • 30 new bridges • 11 residential blocks will make up the Olympic Village • 5 jumbo jets could fit in the International Broadcast Centre • 5 new permanent venues

  4. Headline 4 Olympic Stadium

  5. London 2012 – Aquatics Centre

  6. London 2012 - Olympic Park workforce • 36,000 people worked on the Olympic Park or Village for five or more days between April 2008 and March 2011 • 14,500 people were working on Olympic Park and Olympic Village site at the peak • 76 Million hours worked

  7. Leadership and Worker involvement • Leadership • Genuine commitment from leadership team – clear vision and focus I belong to the team that will create the healthiest, safest and greenest Olympic and Paralympic Games Worker involvement • Supervisor training - mandatory • a 'fair blame' culture, helped create an environment where workers felt comfortable raising health and safety issues • Workers participate in solving problems • Communication • Feedback and behavioural safety initiatives • Reward and recognition • Wellbeing

  8. What was achieved ? • No fatalities • Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) – 0.16 • AFR (with close to 100% reporting) comparable to the all UK average, not just construction • 26 periods of a million hours worked without a reportable accident – and 100 near miss reports for every accident. • Health and safety performance improved throughout the project • Health checks for workers • Health surveillance • Health and safety woven throughout the project

  9. Sharing Good Practice – Learning Legacy • Research programme - learning legacy • Partners included HSE, Olympic Delivery Authority, Loughborough University, IOSH, Cardiff University • 7 research projects • Numerous case studies and micro reports • More details, including summary of research reports • Websites • http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/london-2012-games/index.htm • www.London2012.com/LearningLegacy

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