British Construction Industry Awards 2023

Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative of the Year

This category recognises project teams that understand the importance of creating a safe and healthy working environment and strive to improve wellbeing of those delivering the work.

Winner

Anglian Water, Aecom and Balfour Beatty – People Operated Plant Managed Service Desk

Highly Commended

Anglian Water @one Alliance – Life Fest 22

Judges’ comment “A fantastic example of complex collaboration across multiple partners”Anglian Water, Aecom and Balfour Beatty have undertaken an innovative initiative to transform the way people-operated plant is managed.

The resulting Managed Service Desk system, introduces cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI)-driven human form recognition (HFR) and digital thumbs-up systems.

Combined with telematics and increased safety features, this is helping the team to identify hazards and reduce accident risks. The introduction of innovative technologies like AI-HFR is a first for the construction industry.