Making Tomorrow a Better Place

We believe that becoming a more sustainable business will help us become a more successful business. Our success in becoming a more sustainable business is demonstrated by our ability to recruit, develop and retain excellent people, our ability to win more work and our ability to improve our profitability.

We have had a programme for improving our environmental performance since 1994. This was based on our belief that a strong environmental and social performance would help us deliver our business strategy and objectives. We are proud of our record on sustainable development and this website contains many examples and best practice from across the group, for example:

>  In 2008 Carillion scooped second place overall in the inaugural Sunday Times Best Green Companies Award, in addition to winning the category for large and medium-sized companies with high environmental impact

> We demonstrated our leadership by topping our sector with a Gold ranking in Business in the Community’s 2007 (reported in 2008) Corporate Responsibility Index

> In 2007, thousands of people used their handprint to make a personal pledge to get involved with a local charity, recycle more, waste less and cut down on car journeys. The handprint theme has been adopted to promote sustainability issues across the group ever since

> In 2007 Carillion was named one of Top 20 most ethical firms in the UK, by The Observer’s Good Companies Guide

> We conduct regular employee surveys and our latest scores compare favourably with those of other top UK companies

> We have introduced a Sustainability Excellence Model, developed to drive a cultural change towards sustainable development

> We continued to make progress towards Target Zero in 2007: the Group’s Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) reduced by 22% to 0.14 reportable accidents per 100,000 man hours worked (2006: 0.18) which ranks with the best in our sector

> In 2007 we received Zero prosecutions relating to environmental incidents

> To date around 99% of our UK business is operating under an accredited ISO14001 management system