Health & Safety – Jenner Group

The safety and wellbeing of all our people is paramount.

At Jenner, we work to continuously improve safety standards by providing current, relevant safety training and fully engage in consultation with all our employees. Our health and safety systems are extensively planned, monitored and audited to confirm that we carry out our construction operations to the highest standards of compliance at all times.

We take a zero-tolerance approach to non-conformance in terms safety, behaviour and welfare to ensure we keep everybody safe at all times and continuously work to improve our already excellent health and safety record, which extends throughout our wider supply chain.

Engaging the services of a third-party organisation (H&K) to carry out expert safety audits on all our construction sites ensures that each and every site operates with safety at its core and front and foremost in the thinking and actions of our staff. Additional safety advisory services including safety training for our staff and operatives is also provided by our trusted advisors. Alongside this we are CHAS accredited which ensures we are fully compliant and always progressive in our approach.

Health & Safety Statement Health & Wellbeing Policy

Whilst physical health & safety in construction has always been imperative, a non-negotiable, and with a united emphasis on reducing accident rates over recent decades, for us at Jenner, we believe that mental health needs the same attention and targeted approach to avoid the unnecessary loss of lives that mental ill health causes and improve the overall wellbeing of our people.

In the current day, the alarming and tragic reality is that suicide now accounts for more deaths in construction than physical falls and this is totally inexcusable and wholly preventable.

Thankfully the zero-tolerance approach to non-conformance adopted by the construction industry in its entirety has had a profoundly positive effect on the statistics with incident rates falling substantially over the years, mental health is the real problem that now looms heavily over our industry and is the silent killer that has been ignored for far too long. Two lives are lost each day within the UK construction industry due to suicide which, quite simply, is needless tragedy. Of all the facts and figures our industry generates there are none more devastating than this. Aside of the devastation of suicide – stress, anxiety, and depression account for a fifth of all work-related illnesses and over half a million days are lost to mental ill health every year which brings about its own challenges for businesses and the economy.

In an industry striving for gender equality, we believe it is high time we move beyond the inadvertent ‘macho culture’ that pre-exists and has troubled so many with the perception that they must shoulder the burden alone, and we must remove the judgement and overcome the stigma that mental ill health isa sign of weakness.

The responsibility to change this is ours, that of every single person in the industry, and the time is most certainly now. Times are changing however and at Jenner we are fully committed to the wellbeing our all our people – throughout our entire supply chain, adopting a culture that breaks down this stigma, encourages open and honest dialogue as well identifying a clear route to get help for those who need it. It is for this reason that we have trained a team of Mental

Health First Aiders from across the Jenner Group, both site and office-based who are ready to provide essential support to colleagues (and all those who work on our behalf including our subcontractors)should they find themselves in need of a listening ear and someone to talk to. We are incredibly proud that these people have willingly stepped-up to better understand mental ill health and ensure we proactively play our part to address this problem.