Health and Safety initiatives and communications

Don’t Walk By – Take Action Now

Improving Health and Safety means challenging unsafe behaviour. The aim of our successful Don’t Walk By campaign is to create an environment of openness and awareness, where all our people feel able to identify and raise concerns about unsafe working practices and conditions in confidence.

We seek to ensure people are supported to identify and challenge any unsafe acts and conditions. It’s about reaching ‘people’s hearts and minds’ and changing attitudes and behaviour to ensure we are all committed to the undisputed benefits that can be gained by achieving a safe working environment.

It is also about the active promotion of an incentive or process that is working particularly well and is worthy of sharing. We insist that anyone who sees anything that they think is either unacceptable or unsafe, to report it.

Although mainly focused on Health and Safety, the ‘Don’t Walk By’ theme can also be used to raise other issues, such as a concern relating to the environment or quality. Carillion ensures that ‘Don’t Walk By’ feedback is logged, measured and provided. Effective management, combined with these values, supports a culture that facilitates the successful delivery and continuous improvement of our Health and Safety management.

Safety Action Groups (SAGs)

Each Carillion business has formed Safety Action Groups: teams of people who champion Target Zero, providing a local focus for identifying and reducing workplace Health and Safety hazards. This extends to members of the supply chain and other stakeholders.

Director Safety Tours (DSTs)

Director safety tours (DSTs) are pre-arranged visits by directors or other senior management representatives to sample first hand the Health and Safety culture of a site, project or contract; and to review the effectiveness of their arrangements and controls for Health and Safety as well as assessing Health and Safety performance. In a number of businesses, the DST initiative has been developed into a ‘raise-the-bar’ exercise to drive improvements in Health and Safety expectations to meet operational excellence.

Plc Health and Safety Committee

We have an established Plc Health and Safety Committee that engages with our Managing Directors in setting policy and strategy and the promotion of consistent Health and Safety standards across the Group. The Managing Directors of each Carillion business unit sit on this committee which is chaired by the Executive Director responsible for Health and Safety. This includes:

-	Identifying key Health and Safety issues that require resolution and agree appropriate action
-	Reviewing major accident and incident investigation to support actions that will, ultimately, help us deliver Target Zero
-	Reviewing the progress of business group “AC2E Model” Health and Safety improvement action plans
-	Promoting and supporting work and initiatives arising from Safety Action Groups