Sustainability Report 2011 - Balfour Beatty Rail

Our approach
Progress against
2010 commitments
This table summarises progress against the commitments made
in last year’s report together with links to further information:
Key
Completed
In Progress
Limited/No
Progress
What we said we would
do in 2010 Our progress in 2011 Plans for 2012 Status
Conduct reviews of our operating
companies implementing their
sustainability action plans
Parsons Brinckerhoff action plan
in place for the sustainability vision
and roadmap
Increase our efforts to provide
more sustainable choices for our
customers and further develop
our approach to work winning
Engage employees on sustainability
through awareness training and
appraisals
Employees complete code of
conduct training
Continue ethics programme roll out
to joint venture businesses, project
based operatives and supply chain
Develop KPIs for code of conduct
and ethics reporting hotline
Develop new 2015 targets for
the roadmap
Introduce a measurement tool
to assess the impact of our
community investment programme
Continue to develop our approach
to responsible procurement
Report progress against key safety
and environmental 2012 targets in the
roadmap and our Zero Harm vision
Apply our suite of newly developed
Zero In tools to further embed Zero
Harm across our operations
Develop new tools for calculating
building carbon footprints, project
water footprints and a climate
change adaptation framework
Respond to stakeholder panel
recommendations
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In partnership with KPMG, the Sustainability Working
Group conducted 22 reviews of operating companies
in seven countries. Most progress had been made in
profitable markets and health communities elements of
the roadmap and UK companies tended to perform better
(see Our sustainability vision and roadmap section).
A plan for the professional services business was
formally approved by the Parsons Brinckerhoff board
in January 2012.
Our operating companies developed core sustainability
features for use on all bids and identified specific bids
to target a leading sustainable approach as a way of
differentiating our offering in the marketplace. Workshops
were held in London and Atlanta to share knowledge and
experience, including progress in the green industries sector
(see our Growing our business in the green economy section).
Over 17,000 employees completed our e-learning
sustainability course and more than 8,000 completed
off-line training.
Nearly 30,000 employees (our office-based and supervisory
roles) completed the Module 1 of the training. Module 2 was
launched in late 2011 (see our Engaging our people section).
Programme rolled-out to joint ventures and supply chain
code of conduct issued (see our Ethics, values and
compliance section).
We report the number of calls to the ethics helpline.
Other data is not considered sufficiently reliable or
consistent for benchmarking purposes (see our Ethics,
values and compliance section).
The Sustainability Working Group started work with
Forum for the Future to develop the new targets (see our
Leadership, governance and risk management section).
We reviewed our community programmes across the
Group during the year but did not develop a specific
measurement tool (see our Community engagement and
investment section).
Our UK businesses have adopted the Flexible Framework
for responsible procurement. Training has been provided
for our UK procurement managers and common tools and
procedures shared across the Group (see our Supply chain
section).
See our performance at a glance.
These tools were developed and pilot tested by a
number of operating companies to identify key areas
of improvement (see our Health and safety section).
We worked with the Environment Agency to upgrade their
carbon calculator to apply to building projects as well as
civils projects. We developed an adaptation framework
and a suite of water footprinting tools (see our Creating
infrastructure that is resilient to a changing climate section).
See progress to date in our response (see our Balfour Beatty
response to 2011 stakeholder panel statement section).
Further reviews will be undertaken by KPMG
to assess progress and completion of the 2012
elements of the roadmap.
Further plans are being implemented
at operating company level in different
geographies. The Sustainability Working
Group will provide feedback on the plan.
Further workshops will be held to examine
the community dimension to work winning
and a series of knowledge sharing WebEx
sessions will be held for our business
development teams.
Our sustainability course will be rolled out
to remaining employees over the year.
Employees will complete module 2 of our
code of conduct training.
Module 2 of ethics programme will be rolled
out for office-based/supervisory roles and as
well as a course specific to site operatives.
We will keep our data under review.
Benchmarking, customer interviews and a
series of workshops and consultations will
be undertaken to develop the new targets
for 2015 and published in 2012.
We will re-visit the area of measurement as
we roll out our new Balfour Beatty Building
Better Futures campaign and report our
findings in next year’s report.
We will roll-out an e-learning course for key
personnel who procure so they are able to do
so responsibly. The new 2015 targets in our
roadmap will extend responsible procurement
further down our supply chain.
We will provide training to our operating
companies in our new climate change
adaptation framework. Operating companies
will feedback their experience using the carbon
footprinting tools.
Balfour Beatty Sustainability Report 2011