New Champions from the Highways England supply chain

17 September 2019

Three companies from the Highways England supply chain have been recognised as new DfBB Champions for the efforts in improving management of work-related road risk and the reduction of collisions within their businesses. Certificates were presented at the SH Live event by Highways England Chief Executive Jim O’Sullivan.

They are:

• Kier Highways which is a specialist highways asset maintenance and management business, carrying out maintenance contracts and projects. They have over 3,700 drivers and around 2,000 vehicles.
• Ringway Infrastructure Services who is responsible for maintaining over 50,000 kms of the UK’s highways network, delivering specialist highway services across the largest highways maintenance portfolio within the UK, including strategic road network, DBFO motorway and trunk roads, and the local authority network. They manage in excess of 1,500 drivers and 1,100 vehicles.
• Tarmac who is the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business. They manage almost 5,000 drivers and vehicles.

Business and then champion improvements in the management of work-related road risk throughout their own supply chains and business networks.

Jim O’Sullivan, Highways England Chief Executive, said ''As employers, and supply chain managers, we’ve got to focus on work-related road safety. Public procurement has a very strong role to play in making our roads safer.”

You can read their full case studies, and those of our other Champions here.