Health and Safety

Health and Safety (H&S) is more than a phrase within our Group. It is our number one priority as well as a core Value. We aim to operate beyond compliance, continuously striving for continual improvement and remaining constantly vigilant to any potential risk.

  
Our colleagues understand the importance of safety, to themselves, each other and the Group. But we know that sometimes it can be challenging to keep safety in focus during busier times or when conducting routine, everyday tasks. 

That’s why for the last three years we’ve held an annual Global Safety Stand Down (GSSD). Our GSSDs are dedicated to making safety visible and accessible for every colleague across the Group. 

The first GSSD in 2024 was held in response to a colleague sustaining a serious injury. All 10,000 colleagues stopped work for at least an hour to discuss safety. For our most recent GSSD event in January of this year (2026), we shared the experiences of colleagues impacted by a serious injury and a high-potential near miss incident. Through video content, our colleagues spoke directly to their peers to encourage them not to take risks with their safety. Their stories remind us why creating the conditions for safe work is essential and how we can continue to strengthen our systems, processes and culture.

By setting aside an hour dedicated to safety, we unite colleagues worldwide around the importance of safety and encourage them to stop, think and address what safety looks like for them locally, with the support of managers and leadership.

We continue to evolve our approach with the introduction of a five year Group H&S Excellence Framework.

This is our internal philosophy to achieve significant enhancements to our H&S culture; Assurance; Risk; and Engagement (CARE), in addition to established external systems certification across the Group. By the end of 2024, 44 of our Group Companies were certified to ISO 45001 or equivalent.

We have a behavioural based approach to safety within our Group. 

We ask our colleagues to capture everything from observations of at-risk behaviours through to accidents that occur to enable us to review and take steps to prevent these incidents from reoccurring. 

We do not want anyone to be injured that is connected to our Group, and if they are we learn and improve, taking a holistic approach to reducing risk which is the foundation of enhancing and maintaining our special H&S Culture.

We encourage cross-Company learning and sharing of best-practice and our wide range of engagement initiatives are well attended across the Group. This regular cadence and engagement has been invaluable as we have matured and advanced our approach to H&S team collaboration.

We have also continued our research and investment in technological solutions to improve our understanding of risk and to improve our culture. Examples include the successful pilots of a machine learning data analysis tool and a H&S culture benchmarking survey and analysis platform. 
 
View our Group H&S Policy Statement of Intent clearly outlining our H&S principles.