Crossrail’s Approach to Health and Safety Assurance Assessment

Summary

Health and safety assurance assessments allowed the Crossrail HandS assurance team to react to evolving issues with a flexible assessment outside of the formal audit programme. Some assurance assessments were tightly focused on specific contracts’ emerging issues, whilst others were programme-wide, where issues affected a wide range of the contracts. High levels of collaboration were evident from all of the project contractors and other stakeholders.

This paper should be of interest to Health and safety assurance specialists and any project looking to develop their approach to health and safety assurance.