Kier Highways meet Highways England's challenge of having accident rates in the supply chain in just six months.
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Over the past 6 months, Kier highways have made an unprecedented performance in road safety with six million hours without a reported accident.
Malcom Dare, Commercial Director, Highways England set the supply chain the challenge of halving accident rates. This challenge meant every supplier must half its Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) within the next 12 months and support own supply chain to do the same.
Kier Highways RIDDOR AFR now stands at 0.03 having completed 6 million hours without a RIDDOR at the end of May. The RIDDOR AFR has been halved since December 2019 when it was 0.06.
Kier Highways approached the challenge by running an innovative road safety programme which focused on behaviours and culture, one of the most important drivers to good safety practices. Kier Highways stressed the importance of continually reinventing and driving safety initiatives to continue to decrease accident rates.
Reducing accident rates makes highways work more timely and efficient, this means that the network can return to its original or improved state quicker for the user.
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