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Cultural Calculator

A cultural calculator is used by this contractor as it helps the organisation understand how the workforce truly feels and experiences the workplace. By assessing cultural attitudes, values, and perceptions across teams, it highlights gaps in communication, inclusion, and engagement that might otherwise go unnoticed. This insight enables managers to tailor their approach, improve collaboration, and address issues affecting morale…

Psychology Driven Outreach to Tackle Gender Imbalance in Construction

As part of their commitment to inclusion this contractor hosted a psychology undergraduate to focus a study on addressing the under-representation of women in the industry. Working closely with their Social Impact Manager, the student led a 12-week research project to identify barriers and motivators influencing female participation in construction. Activities included staff interviews, survey development, and the application of…

Flexible Working in Construction

With more talk of flexible working and evidence showing it can have a significant impact on both the health and wellbeing of your existing workforce and making construction a more attractive place to work, it’s time to think about how we can introduce different types of flexibility for site-based roles. Timewise has worked with construction sector pioneers since 2021 to…

Conversation Cards

This contractor carried out a presentation onsite to raise awareness of suicide and the impacts it has, especially in the construction industry. On the back of this, to try to get workers to open up and generate conversations, the site have issued a selection of conversation cards which have been spread throughout the canteen. The cards have small questions that…

WELL Equity – Inclusivity and Accessibility

This contractor has become the first construction company in the UK and Europe to achieve WELL Equity which places a significant emphasis on the policies and practices that underpin the workplace culture. The initial push for pursuing the WELL Equity certification came from the site, whose project culture strongly supported this initiative This early adoption and support exemplify how integral…

Engage for Success Programme

We often hear phrases along the lines that our people are our biggest asset. Whilst this statement may be true, we recognised that how we listen to our people can be a big indication of whether we take this statement seriously. As part of our business culture where ‘developing, valuing and respecting our people’ is one of our key values,…

Tool Library: Addressing Barriers to Employment

A study by The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust identified that not having the right tools was one of the ‘Barriers to Employment’. To help address this, Higgins Construction PLC created an initiative called the ‘Tool Library’. The Tool Library is where Higgins purchase sets of power tools which are security marked; these items are then stored in a secure area…

Bullying in the Workplace: ACAS

It is vitally important to provide a supportive and caring work environment, where all employees feel respected and fairly treated. A platform to enable staff to voice their concerns and problems should be available, to ensure employees individual needs are supported. Any workforce equality, diversity and inclusion policy statements should reference discrimination, harassment and bullying to show that these issues are not…

Cost of Living Support

This contractor provided cost of living support to their team to recognise an issue that impacts all of the team and offer a level of support, despite the issue being caused by outside factors beyond the companies direct control. This set a precedent and let the employees know that the wellbeing of them and there families is being considered by…

Equal Parenthood Policies

This contractor has implemented industry-leading equal parenthood policies. All employees (any gender) will have access to 6 months parental leave on full pay, followed by 13 weeks half pay (applicable to those people with a due date from first week in October) – regardless of how they become parents, including birth, adoption or surrogacy. There is a new phased return…

Culture Survey

On this project they undertook a culture survey to see how their operatives really feel about working on the project and their views on the safety culture. Over 100 operatives undertook the online survey and 30 undertook a face to face survey. This has allowed the contractor to understand how their operatives feel about the site and given them some…

Pride LGBTQ+ Helmet Stickers

In order to celebrate Pride Month, the contractor team on this project have provide Pride LGBTQ+ helmet stickers. Additional to this the contractor showed support to those celebrating Pride Month with banners placed at the vehicle gates and small flags were distributed to office workers.

Young Person Safety Leadership Team

The senior leadership on the project had a Safety Senior Leadership Team (SLT) that looked at health and safety issues on site, but an opening was found on how the site could engage young people in health and safety on a practical level. This led to the creation of the Young Person SLT (YP SLT). The YP SLT helps give…

Discussing the Issue of Racism with the Workforce

The site held a virtual meeting attended by over 150 staff to discuss racism following on the momentum created by the Black Lives Matter movement. The purpose was to educate people regarding the issues around race and to provide the psychological safety to make honest mistakes when talking about race and to learn from them. It was facilitated by the…

Fairness, Inclusion and Respect Ambassador

Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) Ambassadors promote a culture of Fairness, Inclusion and Respect within the organisation in which they work. They are expected to embody the principles of FIR: work collaboratively, whilst stepping in to take action, challenge behaviours and positively impact workplace culture. The project team have signed up to the Fairness, Inclusion and Respect commitments and they…

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