Think Safety
The prevention of injury and ill-health, and maintaining a first-class safety culture leading to real performance improvements are key elements of our approach to managing safety. Caring for the safety, health and well-being of our employees and everyone affected by our activities is of critical importance to us.

Health and Safety forms an intrinsic part of our integrated management system ensuring we incorporate it in to all our business activities. Our H&S management system has been developed in accordance with OHSAS 18001 and is currently undergoing external audit to gain official registration. Our successful management of H&S has been recognised by the British Safety Council enabling us to achieve our eighth International Safety Award for 2006.

Our safety culture means that all staff accept individual responsibility for the health and safety of themselves and their colleagues. Aside from the legal requirement, we believe this behaviour to be fundamental to a safe working environment. Our approach has been to impress on all our employees and supply chain that safety is the most important part of everything we do.

This approach includes:

• Protecting employees and the public from exposure to risks.
• Assessing risks and avoiding hazards by changing our working methods and suggesting changes to design.
• Controlling risks by providing information and techniques to enable those managing or undertaking the works to reduce their effects.
• Building controls in to our procedures to reduce the impact of identified risks.