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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: Episode Eleven, How to build a Railway: Safe at Heart
Description: How to Build a Railway is a twelve-part podcast series exploring the story behind the construction of the UK’s new high speed rail line.
With any project, health and safety plays an important role. From working at height to operating heavy machinery, there is always a risk towards the health and wellbeing of workers, and possibly the public.
How do workers identify and mitigate hazards? How do they make use of decades of progress in health and safety? And how do they build upon that knowledge to help improve industry best practice and beyond?...