For Safer People

Everywhere social and economic inequality exists, people risk being harmed.

That's why we always aim to do the right thing for our people, our customers and the wider community - by using our regional, national and global influence to make positive impact - everywhere we operate.

Reducing inequality and helping communities thrive

From our membership of the Ethical Trading Initiative, our work with Action for Children and the NHS, to harnessing the value of apprenticeships and creating opportunities for people around the world, we are delivering positive change for those touched by our operations.

Our key focus areas include:

Social value for individuals and communities: We're creating social value through community partnerships and providing educational opportunities in local communities both in the UK and overseas.

A socially responsible supply chain: We use our influence to enhance working & living standards.

Colleague wellbeing: We are committed to fair pay, supporting colleagues wellbeing and providing development opportunities.

We are committed to creating social value through community partnerships and providing educational opportunities in the UK and overseas in local communities. The projects creating economic value and social mobility in communities we touch across the world.

• Engaging with our community
  We support community volunteering, charitable fundraising and financial donations
• Delivering positive impact and education through partnerships
  We build long-term partnerships with charities, community organisations, schools, colleges and training providers

• Accounting for social value
  We deliver real quantitative work and social value in collaboration with customers and partners
• Harnessing the value of apprenticeships
  We use apprenticeships to develop our colleagues and ensure a pipeline of talent into our business. We have also enabled other organisations to recruit Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) apprenticeships using a proportion of our funding

We use our influence to enhance working and living standards.

Ethically trading and respecting the rights of workers

We're committed to the adoption and implementation of the principles of the ETI base code, we continue to proactively respond to ethical issues.

Maintaining a supply chain free from modern slavery

We're committed to maintaining a supply chain free from modern day slavery and strive to help customers to manage obligations to eradicate modern day slavery from their supply chain.

Implementing ethical standards along our supply chain

We promote health, safety and welfare within our supply chain and implement robust due diligence processes to protect all workers from modern day slavery and human trafficking Securing safe work practices, fair reward and development for workers in our supply chain.

We are committed to fair pay, supporting colleagues' wellbeing and providing development opportunities. The projects create positive local economic and social value.

• Committing to fair pay
  We are committed to our status as a real Living Wage employer
• Supporting physical and mental health and wellbeing
  We ensure our working environments and practices are safe
• Providing Learning and Development
  We provide structured training development and support services to all our teams