Annual Report 2016
Analysis of Group
employees by gender
Directors
The majority of our businesses
have external accreditation for their
health, safety and environmental
management systems. Many Group
companies also hold ISO 9001
quality management and OHSAS
18001 Occupational Health and
Safety management accreditations,
and are part of the Safe Contractor
schemes.
Employees have access to specialist
occupational health advisors,
who can provide proactive health
surveillance and advice in order to
keep our employees fit and healthy.
Employee assistance programmes
are also made available to
employees across the Group, where
employees can get free advice and
counselling on any issues, whether
work related or personal.
- Training and development
During the year the Group introduced
an Executive Development
Programme. Selection days were
held for candidates and a number
of Managers across the Group
commenced the Programme
that delivers modules of training,
supported by Executive coaching,
over a period of two years. In addition,
the South Staffs Water Executive has
spent time reviewing talent in the
business and developing plans to
manage future senior management
succession. Latterly in the year
the business has engaged with
local colleges in Cambridge and
Staffordshire to enable a structured
programme of training and
qualifications for Apprenticeships.
In addition to the development
and roll out of an SSI Services
Supervisors’ Development
Programme in 2015/16, which is
continuing in the current year,
SSI Services also delivered its Non
Stop Training developmental
managerial and supervisory
training programme to 160
employees during the year.
Emphasis continues to be placed on
Apprenticeships, with Apprentices
in most of the SSI Services division’s
businesses.
Echo continues to support
development opportunities for
employees by offering secondments
across departments, on projects
and in different sites, including
seconding colleagues in India to
the Walsall site to learn more about
the Rapid software and then share
that learning with the wider team
in India. During the year, Echo also
continued with the development
of their internal online learning
platform, with over 50 additional
courses being added. This enables
team members to select courses
that they feel will benefit them both
professionally and personally.
Male 13
Female 3
Senior Management
Male 37
Female 10
Other employees
Male 1903
Female 572
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