Health & Safety

We are committed to a policy of effectively managing all aspects of health, safety and welfare. We maintain our fundamental belief that everyone has the right to return home unharmed at the end of each and every working day.


The Group continues to promote the ethos that health and safety, to be an integral part of business success, has to be led from the top of the organisation. We maintain that the leaders of the business must look to themselves as to how they demonstrate strong leadership to ensure that our people truly believe that their safety is important to us as a Group. It is up to our leaders to lead, not manage, in this aspect; and to exhibit and demonstrate those values each and every day – for it is our leaders that set the standard of health and safety expectation.

Since 2007 the Group has embedded the desire to carry out leadership Health and Safety tours on site, with all business leaders, up to an including the Chief Executive committing to tour our sites regularly, focussing purely on health, safety and environmental issues. The last two years have seen over 950 of such visits taking place, showing the clear demonstration of the Group’s senior management’s commitment to health and safety and also the positive influence of our behavioural programme.