Supply chain safety leadership
This page describes the work that our supply chains are doing to reduce serious harm and incidents on our network.
Supply Chain Safety Leadership Group
The Supply Chain Safety Leadership Group (SCSLG) was formed to provide focus to improving safety performance across the National Highways road network through collaborative working across the supply chain where common risks exist, and provide a unified voice for the sector.
The Group includes representatives from suppliers and provides safety leadership and clear strategic direction to the supplier community, overseeing the development and adoption of health, safety and wellbeing improvement activities throughout the National Highways supply chain, aimed at eliminating fatal risks - reducing risks on the network to operatives and road users.
It is responsible for raising the quality of conversations between National Highways and the entire supply chain, improving supply chain safety maturity through collaborative working, agreeing key priorities to deliver change at pace and reduce inefficiencies.
Vision
The SCSLG's vision is to create a very clear shift in safety performance to ensure everyone who works with us and everyone who travels on the network gets home safe and well.
The group have carried out extensive risk profiling across the highways sector and from the results are focusing on the top nine significant risks as below
Nine significant risks
The nine significant risks are:
- occupational road risk
- people plant/vehicle interface
- incursions & IPV strikes
- working at height
- temporary works
- underground – overground services
- occupational health – noise – dust – manual handling
- plant turnover
- lifting operations
If you are interested in in being a part of any of the nine significant risk groups complete the form below:
Join our significant risk groups.
Find out more about what the group is doing.
Significant risk profiling
In 2023 the supply chain safety leadership group with our full support have undertaken significant risk profiling across our industry.
Sadly, fatalities and life-changing harm continues to exist in our industry. Even within businesses that statistically are considered high performing, fatal and life-changing harm can and does occur. It is time that we stop this and drive out fatal harm from our industry once and for all.
It is time to be different. We accept in life that people make mistakes, but we cannot accept that a mistake in the workplace can lead to life-changing harm, or even fatality. It is for this reason, that we and the SCSLG now feel confident that it is time to take the next steps to eliminate significant risks by widening this new Strategic Direction to the whole supply chain.
Collaboration is key to the successful elimination of the most significant risks to our people and I am writing to you today to ask for your full support in the development and delivery of this new approach.
As business leaders, we are calling on your commitment to adopt this new Strategic Direction in your own businesses. The SCSLG has developed a six-stage process to support you in embedding this approach in your businesses:
- Significant risk education
- Significant risk strategy developed
- Initial significant risk profile completed
- Significant risk prioritised
- Objectives set to de-risk the significant risk profile
- Ongoing significant risk performance monitoring
We sent out the following correspondence in 2023:
Significant Risk Strategic Direction - (February 2023)
Significant Risk Strategic Direction Update - (May 2023)
View our webinars:
- MD/CEO 1st webinar – Why significant risk
- Technical webinar module 1
- Technical webinar module 2
- Technical webinar module 3
Download the significant risk profiling workbook.
