Safeguarding our environment and the health, safety and welfare of our staff at work is paramount. We strive to provide working environments that are safe, without risk to health, or harm to the environment. Our core belief is that no one should suffer from ill health, (physical or mental) or an accident at work.
In 2021, our accident frequency rate increased by 0.01.
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Fatal |
Accident frequency rates* |
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2018 |
0 |
0.12 |
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2019 |
0 |
0.10 |
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2020 |
0 |
0.11 |
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2021 |
0 |
0.12 |
* number of reportable accidents per 100,000 hours worked.
Our digital health and safety auditing tool, mi|Audit was awarded silver at the 2021 European Digital Impact Awards in the ‘Construction & Facilities Management’ sector. Part of our mi|Project suite of tools, mi|Audit allows our Group Inspectors to conduct onsite safety audits efficiently, carrying out root and branch audits on a quarterly basis for every project.
Our people's wellbeing
Throughout 2021, we sustained our commitment to the Government backed Construction Leadership Council Site Operating Procedures to be Covid-19 secure.
We continued with our ‘All Safe Minds’ campaign, which aims to combat the stigma associated with mental illness and encourages our people, and those we work with, to seek help if they are experiencing mental health issues, such as stress or depression. To support our people, we launched Thrive; a mental wellbeing, NHS-approved app for the prevention, early detection and management of anxiety, depression and stress.
We also offered health checks across our business, with 600 of our people taking them, and offered our people the flu jab.
Considerate Constructors Scheme and CLOCS
We are associate members of the Considerate Constructors Scheme. Contractors signing up to the scheme agree to abide by its voluntary Code of Considerate Practice, which covers site appearance, community engagement, safety, care for the environment and care for the workforce.
Our 2021 average score across all projects was 41.48/50 – 8% higher than industry average.
Considerate Constructors Scheme Score – average marks out of 50 across all projects
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2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
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Willmott Dixon Considerate Constructors average |
41.26 |
41.39 |
41.46 |
41.78 |
41.49 |
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Industry Considerate Constructors average |
36.12 |
36.24 |
36.73 |
38.33 |
38.23
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Risk management and compliance
We maintained an integrated risk management system for health, safety and environmental disciplines (Environmental Management System ISO14001:2015, Health and Safety system ISO45001:2018).
In 2021 we had six major incidents. Our incident response procedures were followed with full communication to all stakeholders and no further action was taken. We had no prosecutions during the year.
Improving data security
We are holders of the Cyber Essentials accreditation and the ISO27001 certification, demonstrating our commitment to data security. We have replaced or upgraded all our laptops and introduced multi-factor authentication. Over half of emails were filtered out before they reached our inboxes having been identified as harmful or fraudulent.