Balfour Beatty & Kier – Joint Safety Initiative

Today’s Agenda

• Housekeeping

• Today's crossword

• Perceived risk

• H5O performance

• Summary

Today’s Crossword

• An explosive, incendiary or other destructive substance

_ _ _ _ (4 letters)

• An area of ground containing explosives or situation beset with hidden problems

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (9 letters)

Minefield

Wikipedia – Signs of a potential Minefield

• Signs of road repair, this includes paved areas, new fill, road patches

• Odd features in the ground or patterns that are not present in nature.

Today’s Crossword

• An explosive, incendiary or other destructive substance

• An area of ground containing explosives or situation beset with hidden problems

A electric cable or gas pipe??

A Site?

Minefield

Wikipedia – Signs of a potential Minefield construction site

• Signs of road repair, this includes paved areas, new fill, road patches

• Odd features in the ground or patterns that are not present in nature.

Perceived risk

How you see or perceive “risk” determines how you manage it!

Perceived risk

Many rules can strip us of the most important thing – Our own social responsible behaviour! (Hans Monderman – Professor of Traffic management )

Perceived risk

Low Voltage often seen as Low risk?

Perceived risk

A Cable or an explosive device?

Perceived risk

An already located Gas pipe or a continuous hazardous area?

Perceived Risk

Site or a minefield?

CABLE STRIKES CONTINUE TO BE ONE OF OUR HIGH RISK AREAS

Last year in the UK 15 people died and 670 will never work again after striking buried services

CABLE STRIKES CONTINUE TO BE ONE OF OUR HIGH RISK AREAS

An unstable joint, causing an explosion. Pimlico London

Perceived risk

There are known known's. These are things we know that we know.

There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know.

But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

Perceived Risk – Known unknown

H50 Performance

7 Incidents (10 services damaged)in less than 3 months! ( zero year to date prior to May)

May – 4 x service pipes & BT – Quintrell downs May – LV cable – New Mill Ind Est , Modbury May – LV cable – Truro June – HV at Mount Pleasant road, Truro June – Overhead BT (confirmed as dead) at Northam Burrows July – BT at Barrack Road, Ottery st Mary July – HV at Quintrell downs

Think, Act, Prevent

If you were told that a explosive was present – What would you do differently?

Thank you for listening

Any questions?