Who We Are What We Do Where We Do It Investors Sustainability Careers News Case Studies Contact Us Search Home Sustainability Social SOCIAL Sustainable Business The health, safety and wellbeing of our employees, customers and the community comes first at all times. We have evolved the way we conduct community outreach activities in the year to foster take up in STEM subjects for younger audiences and to help address diversity disparity, including encouraging women in engineering. Improved employee diversity is a key pillar of our new people strategy and this year we have set an ambitious new target – to increase the proportion of women in our *senior leadership team from 21% to 30% by March 2025. People and potential Community engagement The safety and wellbeing of our people is our priority. We encourage a diverse and inclusive employee base where each person feels respected and able to fill their potential. Our engagement approach ensures we support the communities in which we work, we are a good neighbour and we positively contribute to society’s progress. We are committed to being proactive in ensuring we build a positive relationship and engagement with the local communities in which we operate. Historically we have focused our sponsorship and volunteering activities on locally-led causes but we plan to introduce a Group-wide approach in 2021. New people strategy As we evolve Babcock, we will create an organisation that is more integrated and collaborative, putting our people at the core of what we do. We will seek to develop and motivate a workforce that is built on trust and empowerment. Our new people strategy will offer a consistent and common solution for Babcock, providing the foundation to evolve the Babcock we want for the future. Employee engagement We have significantly increased and improved employee communications to enhance and improve employee engagement. These include a weekly CEO vlog and the ‘Ask David’ initiative, where employees can email the CEO and get a direct response from him, as well as the launch of a Babcock app allowing more employees to access communication content. The Agile framework and culture Agile working will support our new business model and culture, providing an environment where employees are trusted to make decisions about how they work, balancing personal preferences with company and customer needs. Capability and skills Maintaining and developing the capability and skills of our workforce is important to Babcock to ensure we deliver on our contractual and operational commitments. Early careers We run extensive apprenticeship and graduate development programmes across the business. We recruited over 200 apprentices onto our apprenticeship programmes during the year. The majority of these were new starters on level two and three programmes, which create entry level opportunities to join the workforce. We recruited over 250 graduates onto our graduate development programme this year, our largest intake to date. We have implemented a new behavioural programme for all graduates across the Group. Gender diversity and gender pay gap Our Gender Pay Gap results support that we have made progress in re-balancing the representation of our female staff across our business. In spite of this, the engineering sector, as well as other STEM disciplines in which we operate, continue to be male dominated and we therefore remain committed to driving down this gap. We are pleased to see our gender pay gap has reduced year on year since first reporting in 2017. The mean gender pay gap has narrowed year on year from 16.2% in 2017 to 12.5% in 2020. Similarly, the median gender pay gap has narrowed year on year from 16.5% in 2017 to 12.3% in FY2020/21. For further information please see our Gender Pay Gap Report. Health and safety The mission of the Group is that everyone goes “Home Safe Every Day”. Our vision is that Health and Safety is at the heart of all that we do. We have a high performing, open and just safety culture, with strong leadership at all levels, where our people are empowered to speak up, intervene, are heard, invested in and trusted. Safety leadership is the primary driver for a positive safety culture. When we have a positive safety culture, we create an environment where we listen and take notice, we don’t walk by and we take time to stop and think. We collectively learn from our mistakes and successes to achieve our goals safely. Inclusion and diversity At Babcock we recognise the value for our people of working in an inclusive environment where differences are valued, where everyone can thrive, give their best and fulfil their potential. We are committed to being a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of wider society and to be a business that inspires and shapes the communities in which we operate. Our People The safety and wellbeing of our people is our priority. We encourage a diverse and inclusive employee base where each person feels respected and able to fill their potential. c. 30,000 Employees 969 Number of apprentices as of April 2021 258 Graduates 170 Volunteer Reserves Environment Our Group-wide Energy and Environmental policies and strategies set out the direction and ambition of the organisation for environmental matters. Our approach ensures that sustainable considerations and practices are embedded throughout the organisation. Social We are the major employer in many of our communities so our engagement approach ensures we support the communities in which we work, we are a good neighbour and we positively contribute to society’s progress. Governance Babcock has always been and will always be committed to doing business honestly and openly. We hold our leaders to account for ensuring their businesses operate according to the standards we expect. * Senior managers are defined as employees (excluding Executive Directors) who have responsibility for planning, directing or controlling the activities of the Group (Exco) or a strategically significant part of the Group (Sector/Functional leadership teams) and/ or who are directors of subsidiary business units (Business Unit leadership). 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