Balfour Beatty - Corporate Responsibility Summary Report 2007

causal analysis and a powerful facility to track actions from investigations,
audit and risk assessment.
Additionally, some operating companies use Tr@ction to monitor complaints,
occupational health referrals, service strikes, insurance claims and other
information.
Embedding Tr@ction into new businesses continued during the year and
Tr@ction Masterclasses, offering advice on how to get the best from the
system, were carried out for operating company senior managers in the US
and new acquisitions in the UK.
Accident investigation
During 2007, we continued to conduct training in accident investigation that
incorporates a powerful system of causal analysis. Root causes are recorded
in Tr@ction so enabling common issues to be identified across the business.
The system is applied to all fatalities and to high potential accidents and near
misses. This offers good insight into systemic causes and provides the
opportunity to remedy these before injuries occur. By end 2007, over 600
senior managers and Principal Investigators attended one and two day
courses in Accident Investigation in the UK, and other parts of the world.
Task groups
Several cross-operating company task groups have been active during the
year in areas of common interest:
MEWPs: A group has been established to review working with Mobile
Elevated Work Platforms, focusing on procurement standards, training and
emergency operation;
a Utility Service Strikes working group has successfully developed policy,
guidance and common training material to manage the risk from service
strikes;
a Tower Crane working group has produced company-wide guidance on the
procurement, erection, use and maintenance of tower cranes;
a Driving Safety working group has produced company-wide guidance on
managing road risk and an employee leaflet aimed at addressing the
behaviour of individual company drivers; and
a Tr@ction User Group meets quarterly.
In earlier years, cross operating company task groups have:
reviewed new legislation and standards on Temporary Traffic Management;
developed training on asbestos management; and
recommended an approach for managing the risk of Hand-Arm Vibration
Syndrome (HAVS).
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