This is where we share resources and information about health, safety and wellbeing to support our workers and suppliers to ensure that everyone gets home safe and well. See Home Safe and Well - Our approach to heath, safety and wellbeing.

We need your input too and want you to share your experiences with us, providing examples of best practice and lessons learned. This information will help us to create a bank of knowledge and experience that can be shared across our supplier community to improve health safety and wellbeing for all.

Our corporate Home Safe and Well aim is:

“No one should be harmed when travelling or working on the strategic road network"

You'll find a wide range of information here to help you to stay up to date with the latest advice, ideas and initiatives.

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Home Safe and Well Webinars 2025 

Throughout 2025 we’re holding a series of webinars. Each follows the nine significant risks that the Supply Chain Safety Leadership Group (SCLSG) is focussed on, supported by National Highways.

You'll find topics, dates, times and registration links on our webinar page.

Safety moments

Use the safety moment generator to create a topic for your discussion on health and safety, and give us your safety moment ideas.

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Highways Passport

Find information on the Highways Passport and all the monthly newsletters, ‘Inside Lane’

Blue Star Awards are our opportunity to recognise companies, teams and individual who have:

  • delivered benefits for Health, Safety or Wellbeing through innovation
  • shared that knowledge, method or product improve Health, Safety and Wellbeing across our sector

Nomination

To nominate a brilliant idea that’s made a real difference to Health, Safety or Wellbeing email BlueStarAwards@nationalhighways.co.uk.

Make sure you include:

  • a case study
  • photographs
  • any additional supporting evidence

Your nomination will go forward to our Safety Panel, which includes representatives from across our organisation and supply chain.

Scoring nominations

Our Safety Panel will consider your nomination against six criteria:

Context

Why did you bring this solution to your business? Does it link to one of your Key Performance Indicators or a particular issue or challenge you have?

Innovation

Is your nomination about a product, equipment or a new way of working? Is it something that has never been seen before? Maybe it’s a new way of applying an existing method or product? How is it innovative?

Raising the bar

Does your solution apply to one of the Raising the Bar categories?

What you did

Was your approach structured? Who was involved in identifying your solution? What did you actually do to deliver the Health, Safety and Wellbeing benefits?

Benefits

What is the extent of Health, Safety and Wellbeing benefits? Are there other benefits such as CO2 emissions, sustainability, time saved?

Scalability

Can this solution be applied on other projects? How easy is it for others to implement?

These descriptions give you an idea of the sort of information you need to supply. They're not definitive.

If we need more information, we’ll invite you to come and discuss your submission at the next panel meeting

Good Luck. We look forward to receiving your nominations.

Learn more about the Blue Star Award Process.

We want to promote and share the great things you're doing in our industry, so that we can all learn and grow. Blue Star Awards and case studies are an effective way to share information easily.

Blue Star Awards are National Highways opportunity to recognise a company, team or individual who, through innovation on a project, has delivered Health, Safety or Wellbeing benefits that could transfer to other schemes and help improve Health, Safety and Wellbeing for all. Innovative recipients of Blue Star Awards have included the following:

The Tinbin TC2 Suction Excavator Attachment

The Tinbin TC2 Suction Excavator Attachment is a hydraulically driven, pneumatically functioning suction device that attaches to the excavator. The TC2 has the ability to suck mineral building materials, soil/ground and gravel.

It enables finer excavation and eliminates damage to utilities and gives Operators the ability to reach problematic spots, so all manual digging operations can be completed with ease (May 2024).

Artificial Intellegence (AI) technology

Artificial Intellegence (AI) technology was used in traffic monitoring surveys, to inform the design. Through utilising AI enabled cameras to conduct advanced, instead of standard analogue or human-monitored count and classification surveys, the Traffic management team were able to identify 228 acts of unsafe driving, within a 28 day period. Using this information lead to a design change, whereby a Mini-roundabout was selected, instead of the previous prefered option of traffic lights.

Blue Star Award submissions

To be successful, the awarding panel look for Blue Star submissions to meet core criteria including the context, innovation (uniqueness), the benefits of the initiative and the scalability – will it work on other projects and across the infrastructure and other sectors?  

Blue Star submissions that are unsuccessful may be put forward for consideration as a case study in order to share the best practice or lessons learned. 

Case Study Purpose

The purpose of a case study is to promote and share best practice from lessons learnt, innovations or new/emerging processes or procedures. 

The case study itself should shed light on your central problem and identify strategies or best practices towards recommendations that resolve key problems.

Although case studies can be success stories or failures, they always address key areas that you will usually research further through other primary and secondary data. 

Take a look at our previous case studies

The Supply Chain Maturity Matrix (SCMM) helps organisations:

  • demonstrate safety cultural maturity
  • describe their progress toward safety excellence

Completing the Matrix is an existing contractual agreement under Annex 15 - Health and Safety Scope.

Follow this link to complete the Supply Chain Maturity Matrix.

Supply Chain Maturity Matrix process workflow.

An archive of all our case studies:

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