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Balfour Beatty Corporate Responsibility Report 2006

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Employee satisfaction

Surveys of employee attitudes, needs and opinions are conducted in the great majority of our operating companies. In 2007, the first Group-wide employee survey will be undertaken.

Award for innovation

Chairman Sir David John presents winning graduate Emma Garner, Balfour Beatty Construction, with her Award for InnovationChairman Sir David John presents winning graduate Emma Garner, Balfour Beatty Construction, with her Award for Innovation

 

 

A graduate conference was introduced in 2006 as part of their induction process. This offered recent graduates a greater understanding of the whole business and an opportunity to build a network of peer contacts throughout the Group.

Feedback from the conference was extremely positive and it is intended that this will become a regular feature in our calendar, along with a Chairman's Award for Innovation, which was launched in 2006.

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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