Balfour Beatty - Corporate Responsibility Summary Report 2007
Balfour Beatty - Corporate Responsibility Summary Report 2007
Balfour Beatty - Corporate Responsibility Summary Report 2007
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE<br />
Our management systems for safety, health and environmental policy<br />
operate both at Group and operating company level.<br />
Making progress<br />
“We are becoming increasingly<br />
successful in spreading good practice<br />
to all our operating companies across<br />
the globe.”<br />
Independant audit<br />
conducted of the data in our<br />
<strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Responsibility</strong> <strong>Report</strong>.<br />
<strong>Corporate</strong> system<br />
The Chief Executive has ultimate responsibility for safety, health and<br />
environment as well as for overall business performance and reports to the<br />
Board on these matters.<br />
The Group Director Safety, Health and the Environment reports directly to the<br />
Chief Executive and is responsible for establishing safety, health and<br />
environmental policy and monitoring performance against it.<br />
The Chief Executive personally conducts a review of the most serious events<br />
- fatalities and other serious safety, quality or environmental incidents.<br />
The Group-wide risk management framework provides a common<br />
management system and software for identifying and managing risks of all<br />
types.<br />
Good practice in safety, health and environment is shared across UK<br />
operating companies via the Health and Safety Advisers Group and the<br />
Environmental Task Group.<br />
During 2003 a new structure was introduced: the Group Safety and Health<br />
Council is chaired by the Chief Executive and supported by several regional<br />
H&S Forums, each chaired by a Group Managing Director with his operating<br />
company Managing Directors.<br />
Operating companies<br />
Our operating companies work in a decentralised and devolved way, but<br />
within the Group principles and policy framework.<br />
Operating company Managing Directors and their Boards are responsible for<br />
communicating and implementing Group policy within their sphere of<br />
operations, and for legal compliance.<br />
Each operating company has nominated directors with specific interests in<br />
safety, health and the environment, supported by company Safety Boards<br />
and/or Environmental Steering Groups. Qualified safety and environmental<br />
advisers provide relevant expertise and advice.<br />
More information on our operating companies can be found here:<br />
Building<br />
Engineering<br />
Rail<br />
Other Investment<br />
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