Balfour Beatty has featured on both ITV South and ITV Yorkshire as part of a national news story highlighting the rise in roadworker abuse, detailing the experiences of its workforce on the road network.
Marc Woodall, Contract Director at Balfour Beatty, spoke about a recent incident: "Only in the last week in East Sussex, we had an incident where we had a road closure in place. A member of the public was frustrated and wanted to get through. When our staff refused, that individual pulled a knife and physically and verbally threatened them."
ITV Yorkshire also featured Balfour Beatty’s Section Engineer on the A63 project, Amit Soorajbally. Speaking of his experience, Amit said: “We have experienced verbal abuse and threats. In one instance, a member of public started punching and kicking our equipment and threatening our staff on site. This was very scary and it becomes difficult to work under these conditions.”
Balfour Beatty has put in place a number of measures to protect those at risk of roadworker abuse, including the roll-out of body cameras as well as increased mobile CCTV to accurately capture and record incidents.
To watch the ITV South coverage, click here, and to watch the ITV Yorkshire piece, click here.
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Notes to editors:
- Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group with over 25,000 employees driving the delivery of powerful new solutions, shaping thinking, creating skylines and inspiring a new generation of talent to be the change-makers of tomorrow.
- We finance, develop, build, maintain and operate the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and deliver projects at the heart of local communities.
- Over the last 115 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world. Currently, we are working to deliver Hinkley Point C, the first UK nuclear power station in a generation; constructing the world-class arts and cultural facility, the Lyric Theatre, in Hong Kong; and designing, building, financing, operating and maintaining the Automated People Mover superstructure at one of the busiest airports in the world, Los Angeles International Airport.
Image: Balfour Beatty awareness roadsign in Southampton
