Our People

We are proud of the expertise and enthusiasm of the people we employ and we want them to feel fulfilled in their work. To ensure this, we provide clarity in our employment policies; remunerate employees for their contribution to our business; provide an occupational health service; support equal opportunities; maintain strong communication channels between different levels of employees; provide a safe working environment and improve learning and innovation by investing in training and development. We are also continuously seeking to educate employees about the principles of CR and our own commitments, as well as equipping them to implement these in their daily work.

EMPLOYEE HEALTH, WELL-BEING & SATISFACTION

High Level Commitment:

We will ensure the health, well-being and ongoing development of our employees, and help and encourage them to make sustainable business decisions.

Statement of Belief:

We believe that our people are our single most important asset, and that they have a right to feel valued.

Having pursued our sustainability agenda for some five years, in 2008 we reviewed our approach tto ensure that sustainability was truly embedded in within our organisational structure and business strategy. This has resulted in the restructuring of our sustainability governance and a re-evaluation of our long-term sustainability aims. As preparatory work on this is still ongoing we will launch the new strategy, together with long-term targets, in the autumn of 2009.

In the meantime we are committed to improving our sustainability performance and will be extending the scope of our baseline data collection to help the development of meaningful, long-term targets. We are also pursuing a number of shorter term targets and other actions to ensure the continuing improvement of our performance.

Please see the 2009 annual report for details of achievement against our 2008/09 targets and our targets for 2009/10.