Our Health, Safety and Wellbeing Vision

"Berkeley is committed to operating incident and injury free and aspires to have a positive health impact on all those employed and affected by what we do."

Our Health, Safety and Wellbeing Objectives

To continue to strengthen risk management in all areas
To demonstrate enhanced commitment through leadership
To raise standards and promote excellence
To actively engage with our supply chain and workforce
To drive cultural change through the business and influence the industry
To promote Health & Wellbeing arrangements
To ensure clear and effective communication at every level across the business
To demonstrate legal compliance

The Berkeley Group’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing Policy (available here) applies to all employees, direct operations and the on-site activities of our contractors. It sets out what we will do to meet our objectives, ensuring that the highest levels of Health, Safety and Wellbeing standards are being met. This Policy is supported by Health and Safety Management System (HSMS) Standards establishing the Health, Safety and Wellbeing requirements that apply across all sites. These Standards are incorporated into contractor procurement and contractual processes; all contractors approved to work for the Berkeley Group will have signed to accept our Management Rules for Contractors incorporating HSMS Standards alongside the Sustainability Standard for Contractors.

Central to our ongoing improvements are three core corporate programmes which are designed to provide a platform for actively delivering Health, Safety & Wellbeing enhancements across all our operations. A summary of their purpose is set out below:

Good Order

To raise standards of the physical working environment to the highest possible, thus creating a work environment which has reduced risk, allows for efficient production and is appreciated by the workforce.

Good Work

To promote a positive culture and develop attitudes and behaviour. To focus on hazards and risks, work planning and delivery through effective management and supervision, thus reducing the potential for injury.

Good Health

To improve Health and Wellbeing awareness and promote enhanced arrangements to create conditions which have a positive impact on Health and Wellbeing in the working environment.

The principles of these programmes are applied Group-wide to all our operations and are delivered through local arrangements within each business.

Performance

Over recent years our Health, Safety & Wellbeing strategy has been recognised as providing a sector-leading approach. This is reinforced through the leadership work that Berkeley actively does externally and through our strong performance demonstrated by accident rates and achievement of awards.

Berkeley Group’s Annual Injury Incidence Rate (AIIR) per 100,000 people (covering both direct employees and on-site contractors) is 102, compared to the construction sector average of 306 (Health and Safety Executive (HSE), November 2024). This is well below our AIIR target of 250. Our Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) per 100,000 hours is 0.05.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Awards

Berkeley St Edward was named as Winner of the President Award
St James, St William and Berkeley Homes Oxford and Chiltern received Gold Awards for their safety performance
Berkeley Capital won a Gold Medal for winning more than seven consecutive Golds