How Thames Water, Costain and Barhale are preparing their workforce to deliver across AMP 8 

This webinar was produced in association with Utility Week. 

Across the next budget period, the water sector will need to deliver more than ever before (96 billion). It's a massive undertaking that relies on sourcing the biggest water workforce to date.

And, as Panellist Phil Cull put it, "We can't just magic people out thin air", so what can the sector do to grow the workforce, adopt new management approaches and unleash innovation across the sector? 

In this webinar, Utility Week's Ben Hargreaves hosts a panel conversation with leaders from across industry as they give their view on how we can overcome this challenge:

  • Gareth Mullen, head of health, safety and wellbeing, Thames Water
  • Jack Boon, workforce solution unit lead, Causeway Technologies
  • Phil Cull, southern region director, Barhale
  • Ian Nixon, SHE director, Costain

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What's on the agenda?

  • Ben Hargreaves, Utility Week Editor, starts by outlining the challenge AMP 8 presents to workforces and supply chains. 
  • The panel then each take five minutes to explore what that problem looks like in their organisation and how they're facing it.
  • The discussion then moves to the power of collaboration and software to face up to the skills shortage.
  • The webinar ends with a Q&A from the audience. 
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The panel start by exploring the scale of the problem and how much of a challenge it actually presents. 

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The panel then discuss how organisations can face the challenge. What changes needed to be made to the way organisations operate, and what changes are needed at sector level? 

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The panel then discuss the role that software and digital technology could play, focusing on the value skills passports present.

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Meet the speakers

Gareth Mullen
Head of health, safety and wellbeing, Thames Water

Gareth has 30 years’ experience in the core utility and commercial areas at Thames. He has led the roll-out and implementation of the Thames Water Safety Passport (now SkillGuard Utilities), which has helped the water giant achieve a sub 0.1% lost time injury frequency rate – a world-leading safety rate.

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Ian Nixon
SHE director, Costain

Ian Nixon is the SHE director at Costain for the water sector. He has responsibility for one of the largest contractor workforces in the industry, and this is only set to grow with the arrival of AMP8 and Costain taking on new frameworks. Ian has previously worked as sector SHE director for Costain in its aviation, highways and rail division, as well as sector SHE manager in highways and nuclear.

 
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Phil Cull
Southern region director, Barhale

Phil has over 30 years’ experience in delivering large infrastructure projects, specialising in tunnelling techniques. At Barhale, he has overall responsibility for tunnelling operations from cradle to grave, including winning works, delivering work programmes, and developing technical solutions.

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Jack Boon
Workforce solution unit lead, Causeway Technologies

Jack works closely with major infrastructure organisations to help them get the most from their digital solutions. In the water sector, he has worked with MWH, Thames Water, Kier, Galliford Try, and many more. His expertise is in workforce management solutions, including digital ID, access control, competency management and worker passport systems.

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