SkyBlue's award winning team adds real value to rail project

 

A team behind the upgrading of the West Coast Mainline at Rugby have been awarded one of Carillion’s most prestigious awards.

The Alliance, which consisted of employees from two aread of the Carillion Group - recruitment specialists SkyBlue and Rail Major Projects, walked away with the top Values Award at the company's annual conference held at the West Midlands Motorcycle Museum last week.

The Carillion Values Awards were launched in 2002 to encourage employees to put the group's core values into practice, namely openess, collaboration, mututal dependency, professional delivery, sustainable/profitable growth and innovation.

The Rugby Alliance scooped the top accolade in recognition of its committment to driving home the group's Zero Tolerance to unsafe working practices. Chris Groves of SkyBlue, John Yarrow and Alan Clarke of Carillion Rail, accepted the award on behalf of the Rugby team from Carillion's chief executive, John McDonough.

Head of rail operations at SkyBlue, Andy Berry explains: "The team successfully developed and delivered market-leading risk minimisation and training systems, including Institution of Occupational Health & Safety and Behavioural Based Safety courses.

"The result? An amazing accident frequency rate reduction over the last two years of the project, eventually leading to zero site related accidents being reported in 2004!

"This is a major achievement in such a high risk working environment with so many people on the ground. "

Over the course of the project, the Alliance team demonstrated best practice in managing approximately 300 SkyBlue temporary rail workers as they re-signalled 60 miles of the rail line from Rugby to Tring.

Performance manager at  Carillion Rail, Chris Hayton who nominated the team added, "All the individuals involved have gained a significant boost to their self-confidence and now fully appreciate the effect of their own influence and safety leadership of others around them."