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Balfour Beatty Corporate Responsibility Report 2006

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Approach

Balfour Beatty seeks to utilise the full talents and skills of all its people through effective selection, training and development. It also aims to create a safe, healthy, challenging, rewarding, participative, fair working environment for all employees.

Aims and Objectives

Our explicit objectives as far as employees are concerned are:

  • To provide an open, challenging and participative environment;
  • To enable all employees to utilise their talents and skills to the full, through appropriate encouragement, training and development;
  • To communicate a full understanding of the objectives and performance of the Group and the opportunities and challenges facing it;
  • To provide pay and other benefits which reflect good local practices and reward individual and collective performance; and
  • To ensure that all applicants and employees receive equal treatment regardless of age, origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, religion or belief.

Our Business Conduct Guidelines explain the type of behaviour we expect from our employees.

Our Stakeholder Codes of Practice provide a common way of working with key stakeholders

Our Corporate Principles

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30,467 full-time Balfour Beatty employees at the end of 2006

£15 million invested in training in 2006

11% reduction in voluntary employee turnover