Hs2

Question 1

What’s hs2

Answer 1

New high speed rail network that’s set to link London with West Midlands

Question 2

What is hs2 designed for?

Answer 2

Provide zero carbon journeys between London and Birmingham

Provide stations, 2 depots, 32 miles of tunnel, 130 bridges

Question 3

How many jobs does hs2 provide

Answer 3

28,000 jobs every day

Question 4

Hs2 route in Hillingdon?

What’s happening there?

Answer 4

Surface from the new Northolt tunnel
At the West Ruislip portal

Sits alongside chiltern railway there

2 tunnelling machines have been launched from the West Ruislip portal and will travel 5 miles east underground

Will create the western section of the Northolt tunnel

Question 5

What’s step back?

When to do it?

Answer 5

Risk evaluation tool to identify hazards and apply appropriate controls

Step back 2 steps, think for 2 minutes before commencing work

Carry out when arrived on site, before starting new tasks, planned task changes during task

Question 6

What’s FLAR

Answer 6

Field Level assessment risk

Question 7

What’s CRCP?
Examples

Answer 7

Critical risk control protocol

Vehicles, hazardous materials, temporary works, working at heights

Question 8

Did hs2 stop

Answer 8

Northern leg of hs2 got scrapped delays in construction, not financially viable

Question 9

Why did some of hs2 get scraped?

Answer 9

Mismanagement

Delays in local planning consent

the soil between London and Birmingham turned out to be softer than expected which held up tunneling.

Pandemic and Ukraine war inflated price of labour/ raw materials

Land more expensive to buy