Health and safety is integral to what we do and covers not just the safety of our own staff and business partners, but also the design advice that we provide to our clients.
As a global business, delivering projects worldwide, we operate in accordance with many differing legislative regimes that govern safety, health and welfare issues. We are committed to adopting and implementing appropriate health and safety systems that match, if not exceed, the requirements of the countries in which we operate. WSP is represented on local and national health and safety organisations around the world.
It is of fundamental importance to us that we embrace and embed a healthy and safe working culture, and we place emphasis on communicating our policies and procedures.
During the year we increased the coverage of our standardised accident and incident reporting to include 82% of our staff, and with the increased population, this indicated the following:
- 4 reportable work-related major injuries.
- 2 reportable work-related diseases.
- Staff sickness of 4 days per employee per year.
In the UK our reporting systems were further strengthened by the introduction of a central 24/7 incident reporting system. During 2006, our accident and incident rate as monitored in accordance with standard UK Health and Safety Executive protocol remained low at 74 (2005: 209) accidents per 100,000 employees per year. For the fifth consecutive year, WSP has achieved a Gold Award for Occupational Health and Safety from the UK Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.