Health management

As part of our commitment to sustainable development, we take a proactive approach to supporting our employees to keep as healthy and as fit as possible.  We also have taken active steps to ensure that workplace related injury and disease is kept at a minimum.

How we manage health in the workplace

In 2000, we formulated our first five-year Group Occupational Health Strategy. Its purpose was to reduce the level of occupational illness across our businesses and to put in place suitable risk assessment and risk management programmes. Through this strategy, we have also:

• Made preventing occupational illness as much a priority as safety.
• Improved the accuracy of reporting of new cases.
• Encouraged our sites' managers to be more involved and proactive in workplace monitoring by giving them better information.

To establish our strategy, we have put in place two programmes: the Occupational Health Standards programme and the setting of performance targets.

We recognise the importance of, are working towards, achieving a good work/life balance which is good for both our employees and the company's long term health and sustainability.

Our results

Our 2006 results show that 96 per cent of operations have implemented our occupational health standards, while our corporate offices, projects and new businesses continue to put them in place.