AnnualReportFinancialStatments2023

Annual Report &

Annual Report & Financial Statements 2023 Implementing our Partnership Model Cont. Strategic Report We continue to remain focussed on workplace safety, health and wellbeing, as evidenced by a 24.7% reduction in our Accident Injury Incidence Rate (AIIR) from 328 to 247 accidents per 100,000 employed, placing us in line with the Home Building Federation AIIR average and below the wider construction industry average. The Group has had no health and safety prosecutions, prohibition or improvement notices, work related fatalities or environmental breaches resulting in prosecution in the year (2022: nil). We actively monitor performance on sites through regular inspections carried out by regional and central senior management, including the executive team, in addition to those conducted by contracts managers and site management. Over the year 6,290 inspections have been completed. These are supplemented with monthly inspections on all sites, carried out by our professionally qualified EHS Business Partners. Accident reduction We continue to remain focussed on workplace safety, health and wellbeing, as evidenced by a 24.7% reduction in our Accident Injury Incidence Rate (AIIR) from 328 to 247 accidents per 100,000 employed, placing us below the Home Building Federation AIIR average. Highest standards We hold a Gold H&S Award by RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents). The Gold award is merit based and is the highest of the achievement awards, We hold a Gold H&S Award by RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents). The Gold award is merit based and is the highest of the achievement awards, awarded to companies that can demonstrate amongst other things: • Excellent occupational health and safety management systems evidenced by ISO 45001 certification, and strong third-party audit results and company culture • High levels of compliance with control measures for principal risks • No significant enforcement issues such as notices and/ or prosecutions Guided by and aligned with the objectives of our Operational Excellence Strategy, we continue to progress our three-year EHS strategy to create work environments free of harm, that enable our employees, sub-contractor partners and stakeholders to be healthy and safe. Our mission is to promote a culture and environment that empowers everyone to work collaboratively and responsibly, promoting operational excellence and wellbeing, centred around keeping people and places healthy and safe. Environment and waste During the year we expanded our EHS resources, adding two Environmental Advisors and a Group Ecology Advisor to enhance our site assessment capability across all our regions. These colleagues support our objectives in pollution prevention, waste reduction and diesel reduction (a significant contributor to our direct carbon emissions). Our Group Ecology Advisor provides expertise in avoiding or mitigating potential disruption to habitat and species in the construction process. To aid waste reduction, we have developed our waste monitoring and reporting to track key performance indicators, enabling us to identify best practice and take action on any sites which need improvement. This intelligence has contributed to a new waste reduction strategy for site operations. We reduced the number of environmental incidents on Keepmoat sites by 20% and continue to promote a positive reporting culture, enabling us to identify and respond to any emerging environmental hazards on our sites. This has been achieved through: • The enhancement of environmental controls in construction management systems (specifically for surface water management) and contractor trade specifications, helping to ensure that our environmental standards are consistently implemented across all operations. • The development and delivery of online environmental training, including briefings for management teams within Land, Construction, Commercial and Technical functions. • Partnering with our waste brokers to conduct regular site inspections and audits, including the delivery of on-site toolbox talks to subcontractors, and the production of waste management compliance reports for our construction management teams. • Continued refinement of the Health, Safety and Sustainability assurance regime to ensure that environmental hazards identified receive appropriate focus, escalation and investigation. 70 KEEPMOAT.COM 71