People and communities
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Our vision:
Zero harm in the workplace and a positive impact on communities around our sites through effective partnerships and dialogue.
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Objectives:
Ensure health and safety remains our number one priority; develop behavioural safety and an inter-dependent workforce; develop the skills of our workforce; make a positive contribution to the communities around our operations; reduce environmental incidents and emissions.
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Action plan:
Focus on training and communications; ensure a hazard and risk assessment is carried out for every task; set targets to increase safety conversations and near hit reporting and introduce one-to-one safety discussions with all employees; host and facilitate regular engagement meetings with community groups and develop community engagement plans; report and act on environmental incidents and emissions.
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2020 targets:
Zero harm; five community events a year at every quarry; meet the targets set in the Mineral Products Association’s ‘Safer by Competence’ programme by 2017; reduce valid neighbour complaints year on year.
Health and safety
Safety performance mixed
Our safety performance in 2015 was mixed, making it imperative that we maintain our objective of ensuring that health and safety remains our number one priority. The majority of our sites have exemplary safety records, but the total number of lost time injuries (LTIs) rose from 19 to 21, half being driver-related, and in August there was a fatality following an engine room fire aboard our marine dredger Arco Avon. Read more
Public engagement
Consultation and debate
Before submitting planning applications for new developments we consult widely with both statutory bodies and local residents. Read more
Employment and skills
More young people employed
Our employees remain an important stakeholder group and we continued to improve our internal communications through use of the intranet, podcasts, conference calls, employee forums and staff briefing meetings. Read more
Local community
Site visits are encouraged
We recognise that our operations are part of the local community and we strive to be good neighbours. Many of our larger sites operate liaison committees attended by councillors, council officers and residents’ representatives. Read more
Environmental incidents and emissions
Complaints
As part of our management systems we record incidents (occurrences noted by our own staff which may or may not have led to a complaint) and complaints (arising from external sources). Read more
