Safe and inclusive

We place the health and wellbeing of employees, communities, and suppliers at the core of our business operations

KPIs

Fairness, awareness, inclusion and respect

Annual People strategy developed and reviewed quarterly by the business lines
25% women in senior roles

Health, safety and wellbeing

Implement divisional risk reduction plans by 2025 and have an embedded risk based H&S management system by 2030
Annual health and wellbeing improvement plan developed and reviewed quarterly

Social value

100% of higher risk sites have community engagement plans by 2025 and all sites by 2030
Offer 1 day per employee paid leave for volunteering, with a 10% improve year on year improvement (2024 as a baseline)
Produce a Social value monitorising report for baseline in 2025 data and monitor annual until 2030
Establish a chartiable foundation by 2030
Reach Level 2 in Social Value management certificate accredited by SVUK by 2030

Responsible sourcing

80% of spend on critical suppliers that have an approved ESG rating

Safe and inclusive in action:

Setting the standard for health, safety and wellbeing

We are committed to the health, safety and wellbeing of our employees, communities and suppliers and organise a range of events throughout the year to support this.

We are proud to be recognised by The 5% Club with its top platinum standard for our approach to work-based learning and have re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant, demonstrating our commitment to being an Armed Forces friendly employer.

We strive to be a responsible operator and manage our activities to maximise the social value we are creating and our latest social profit report for 2022 showed we generated almost £54 million of social profit in the UK.

Our employees are encouraged to take one day of paid leave each year to volunteer to support local projects and activities and our direct/indirect contributions to registered charities and other organisations which we support was more than £122,000 last year.

In 2023 we became one of the first companies in the UK to be certified to the new ISO 19443 standard, which seeks to drive nuclear safety culture, and, in 2024, we became the first building materials company to achieve the latest BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing standard, which covers the environmental and social issues for organisational and supply chain management.