HS1 Ltd

High Speed 1 donates a further £3,000 to charity
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date 24 September 2007
source HS1 Ltd
type Press release

High Speed 1 (HS1) donated a further £3,000 to charity thanks to safe working practices demonstrated by St Pancras International contractor, CORBER (Costain, Laing O’Rourke, Bachy Soletanche and Emcor Rail).

The money was donated by the High Speed 1 client, Union Railways, its project manager and designer, Rail Link Engineering and CORBER the contractor responsible for the extension and refurbishment of St Pancras International in recognition of the CORBER workforce achieving a million hours worked without an accident.

The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association helps people with MND secure care and support whilst promoting and funding research into the causes, treatment and cure of the disease.

The cheque was presented to Mandy Lomax, senior corporate fundraiser, of the Motor Neurone Disease Association at the newly refurbished St Pancras International by Clive Loosemore, CORBER project director.

"We are very grateful to the CORBER team for taking time out to meet with us and present us with a generous donation of £3,000, and allowing me the opportunity to have an exclusive behind the scenes look at the colossal expansion project nearing completion at St Pancras Station. This contribution to the MND Association was especially poignant as it celebrated 1 million hours worked on the St Pancras project without accident, showing an exceptional effort by those involved." commented Mandy Lomax.

CORBER has raised thousands of pounds for charity by achieving over a million man hours without a reportable accident on seven separate occasions since work began at St Pancras International in 2001. The High Speed 1 safety awards are run project wide and recognise each contract’s achievements in attaining 250,000, 500,000 and 1,000,000-plus man-hours worked without a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reportable incident. Contracts reaching these milestones are given cash awards by the High Speed 1 project to donate to the charity of their choice. The awards are the latest of many safety initiatives employed on the HS1 to get the safety message across to those most at risk - the workforce.

Clive Loosemore said, "We are delighted to present this money to the Motor Neurone Disease Association in recognition of the huge effort and commitment on the part of the workers on this project to health and safety. Each and every person on site on has played their part in making this is one of the safest projects in the British construction industry."

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