About Cookies Download Centre Help Mobile Site HOME ABOUT US OUR BUSINESS INVESTORS MEDIA SUSTAINABILITY CAREERS CONTACT US Sustainability Delivering a Sustainable Future for Housebuilding Sustainability Introduction Sustainability Policies Socio-economic Footprint Developing Our Approach to Sustainability The Marketplace and Our Customers The Places We Create The Homes We Build The Way We Work Keeping People Safe Inspiring, Attracting and Growing Talent Operating Efficiency Performance Targets Performance Data Assurance Statement Sustainability Reports Case Studies Contact Feedback Popular Pages Please Choose a Page Home Reports, Results & Presentations Press Releases Press Releases Investor Home Home » Sustainability » The Way We Work The Way We Work We are continuously improving the way we operate. Above all else we prioritise the health and safety of every single person linked to our operations. We invest in people and skills to help meet the sector’s recruitment challenges, and we strive to reduce waste and energy consumption in all of our construction processes. What matters most Ensuring health and safety Increasing demand for new homes, and a growing workforce, mean we have to work harder to ensure that all of our people and subcontractors can deliver our rigorous health and safety standards New workers and subcontractors need to meet our industry-leading health and safety standards, and we need to provide them with the right training and support to do this Health and safety is a core value, which we encourage each individual to adopt as a personal responsibility. Our workforce There are key challenges ahead: Construction is not seen as an attractive sector to work in, or a sector of choice for young people,1 with the sector losing more than 350,000 employees since its 2007 peak The future workforce needs to be prepared for low-carbon building requirements, and new technologies. Investing in people is one of our key business priorities. Our primary goals are: Improve the image of the sector and Barratt, to secure our future workforce Up-skill the workforce to meet current and future needs Engage with our talent to ensure we attract, retain and develop them Enhance our organisational capability to support our future growth. Reducing our footprint The primary factors driving our carbon reduction activities: The UK is committed to achieving significant reductions in GHG emissions by 2020 and 2050 Operational emissions are only a small part of our overall footprint.However, we have most control and influence over these emissions Generating waste of any kind increases our overall impact on the environment, reduces raw material availability, increases our costs and takes time and effort to manage. Critical areas of importance for Barratt are: Internal benchmarking and behavioural changes to (further) reduce greenhouse gas emissions Building on what we have learned from the AIMC4 project on lean construction techniques Reducing total waste generation through attention to detail on specifications, design and materials ordering. Keeping People Safe Inspiring, Attracting and Growing Talent Operating Efficiency © Barratt Developments PLC 2015 All rights reserved Contact Us Terms of use Privacy Policy Accessibility Site Map Delivered by global3digital We use cookies on this website to give you the best possible experience. To find out more please go to About Cookies.