Right to Respect will provide equivalent to firm鈥檚 health and safety policy
Balfour Beatty has launched a new 鈥渞ight to respect鈥� initiative, designed to bring inclusive behaviour within the business to the same level of scrutiny as health and safety.
The programme, which was piloted with 1,000 of the firm鈥檚 employees last year, will help develop a shared understanding of boundaries at work and how to challenge unacceptable behaviour in the workplace.
The scheme will be launched in phases this year across the domestic operations of the UK鈥檚 biggest contractor.
鈥淥urs is an industry plagued by historical misconceptions; long heralded as typically male dominated, steeped in the imagery of spades in the ground and hard, manual labour,鈥� said Paul Raby, the group鈥檚 HR director.
鈥淏ut while a large proportion of our workforce is out on site achieving incredible feats of engineering and construction every day, the construction and infrastructure is progressively diverse and increasingly modern.
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鈥淲e鈥檝e come a long way from some of the outdated attitudes many of us once knew, not just in our industry but in wider society, and so much the better. But in this fast-paced world we all need a bit of help to understand where the new lines are.鈥�
He said the 鈥渞ight to respect鈥� scheme would provide an inclusivity-focused equivalent to the firm鈥檚 鈥渮ero harm鈥� policy 鈥� which covers on site health and safety issues 鈥� and help 鈥渃hange the perceptions that have loomed over our industry for far too long鈥�.
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