Ensuring Safety and Health
The safety and health of our employees and others impacted by our activities is a fundamental priority for Balfour Beatty. We report comprehensively on our performance and describe the steps we are taking to achieve Zero Harm by 2012 and to ensure the long term health of our employees.
Highlights and Approach
Maintaining a first-class safety
culture is key to our business. We take a structured, risk-based
approach to health and safety across the Group.
Safety Management
We have a well-established Group-wide
framework for managing, tracking and auditing health and safety
performance across our operations:
Key Hazards
We have identified the hazards in our
work that pose the most significant risks in Balfour Beatty and
established programmes to eliminate or mitigate them across our
business.
Targets and Performance
Zero Harm across all our businesses by
2012 means zero deaths, zero injuries to members of the public and
zero ruined lives among our people.
Occupational Health
We pay particular attention to
occupational health risks to our people by improving the health
screening and control of those activities that have the potential
to impact on their health.
Safety Awards
We continue to be recognised for
outstanding health and safety performance worldwide.
Safety Training and Competency
High levels of training and
demonstrable competency in health and safety for our people are the
foundations of a high performance safety culture.
67%
reduction in accident frequency since 2002
