Health & safety

Together we eliminate harm

Health and safety are a core value for us and at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to eliminate harm across our business and change the way we manage safety, health and environmental protection through innovation, the use of technology and by thinking differently.

Our Integrated Safety, Health and Environmental Management System is certified to ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 and provides a framework for successfully managing risks and opportunities to prevent injury, ill health and provide a safe working environment. It also protects and enhances the natural environment in balance with socio-economic needs.

Leadership

Health and safety is led from the very top of the company, with routine senior leadership engagement visits and twice-yearly leadership engagement days where the whole company and our supply chain focus on a key issue.

Support and developing skills

The Costain SHE Academy runs alongside the Graduate Scheme and includes apprentices and trainees from the safety, health and environment professions. The aim is to develop the SHE professionals of the future.

Our Cultural Behavioural Management programme is based on the principles of behavioural science, which explores the link between people’s behaviour, their workplace and the local environment. It’s a leadership approach which creates environments that increase and promote desired behaviours and is a key framework for implementing positive change.

Performance

Our Leading Indicator approach has seen us reduce injuries to industry-leading levels and maintain that performance. Leading indicators:

• Behaviour - effective environmental and workforce engagement ratios support environmental reporting and workforce involvement.
• Carbon & biodiversity – biodiversity net gain baselines, targets and carbon reduction plans.
• Assurance –indicators support effective monitoring and assurance - right place, right time, right people.
• Incidents – investigation quality measure to learn from and improve our understanding of events.
• Leadership – ensuring senior management remain in touch with front line operational issues.

Our Lagging indicators are Accident Frequency Rate (AFR), Lost Time Injury Rate (LTIR) and High Potential Frequency Rate (HPFR).