Thames Water fined £100,000 for unsafe street work practices
October 29, 2021
TfL has successfully prosecuted Thames Water for four safety streetworks related offences committed on the Transport for London Road Network. Read More
Breaking the 0.1 lost time injury frequency rate plateau
February 10, 2021
Karl Simons, Chief Health, Safety & Wellbeing Officer at Thames Water, talks to SHP about the work that has gone in to achieving a LTIFR of 0.09 for the first month of 2021. Read More
Karl Simons awarded OBE for services to mental health in New Year Honours list
December 31, 2020
SHP exclusively caught up with Karl Simons, Chief Health, Safety & Wellbeing Officer at Thames Water, who has just been recognised in the Queens New Year’s Honours list to receive the award of OBE for his ‘Services to Mental Health Policy’. Read More
No need for speed: Looking back Road Safety Week at Thames Water
December 23, 2020
Gordon Rickards, Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager for Operations Support at Thames Water, explains how the business refocused it’s attention on road safety during Road Safety Week. Read More
What3words: The app that could save the lives of lone and rural workers
July 28, 2020
What3words has divided the world into 57 trillion 3m by 3m squares and given each a unique three word ‘address’. It means, a person’s exact location can be pinpointed more accurately than a street name or postcode in the event of an emergency. Read More
SHP launches Safety & Health Podcast
July 24, 2020
That’s why SHP has launched the Safety & Health Podcast to deliver the news, insights and legislation through interviews, discussions and panel debates with some of the profession’s leaders, influencers and innovators. Episode 1 features an exclusive interview with SHP readers’ Most Influential Person in Health & Safety, Thames Water’s Chief Health, Safety and Security Officer, Karl Simons. Read More
‘Placing health & safety at the forefront of the procurement decision making process’. Thames Water’s Karl Simons discusses the AMP6 Engagement Strategy
July 2, 2020
SHP caught up with Thames Water’s Karl Simons to learn about the culmination of a major five-year investment programme titled AMP6, that would see a radical shift in direction and lead to outcomes never seen by a major capital programme before. Read More
World Cancer Day: SMEs can play a significant role in tackling cancer and supporting employees
February 4, 2020
One in two people expected to be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. In advance of World Cancer Day on 4 February, SMEs have been encouraged to play a role in supporting employees from diagnosis to treatment and rehabilitation. Read More
UK Water Industry releases position on Mental Health through ‘Thriving at Work’ survey results
January 6, 2020
Analysis shows that 87% of the Water Industry have achieved compliance against the core standards and 68% have gone further and achieved compliance against both the core and enhanced standards. Read More
Thames Water fined £300k following confined spaces breach
December 17, 2019
Thames Water has been fined following an incident in which three workers were carried along a sewer after a 150-year-old sewer gate collapsed. Read More
