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Balfour Beatty Corporate Responsibility Report 2006

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Diversity

Each year, the company monitors its diversity performance across all of its UK businesses. In 2006, 17% of our employees were women and 6% were of ethnic minority origins. These proportions are significantly higher than when measurement first started in 1999 when the proportions were 13% and 4% respectively. Nearly 140 graduates were recruited in 2006. 20% of this intake were women and 15% from ethnic minorities.

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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