We take a global approach to health and safety, adopting best practice from across the world and implementing this throughout our regions. We ensure we meet our moral and legislative responsibilities to our workforce, valuing the safety and welfare of all our colleagues around the world. This approach is supported by the Global Health and Safety Best Practice Group with representatives from each region. An additional team ensures clear communication with every country where we operate. In the UK we have been awarded 20 RoSPA Awards in the past five years, 14 of which are Gold standard.
Best practice
The Best Practice Group enables continuous improvement, sharing of processes and lessons learnt through event investigation, audit and review. This drive for improvement helps us to keep pace with the rapidly shifting and competitive commercial environments in which we operate. Great service delivery for our customers includes health and safety management to keep you, your customers and our colleagues safe.
Excellent safety standards
We maintain excellent standards of safety through a high level of colleague participation in active monitoring across all regions. We keep an open dialogue about safety issues via worker engagement visits, with the objective of safety becoming ‘a part of the job’. Regular conversations about safety, help to reinforce its importance - the more we talk about safety, the more culturally ingrained it becomes. It also creates trust on sites and safety conversations with those carrying out the work allows sharing of best practice. We reinforce this by making regular safety visits a mandatory part of every executive board member’s annual objectives.
Working together
By taking the time to have good conversations with our colleagues about our working environment, by being alert to risk, by reporting near misses and challenging unsafe practice, we work together to ensure that no one gets hurt at work and that everyone can go home safe and healthy.