Aiming high to ensure quality and safety
The health, safety, and wellbeing of our colleagues and subcontractors is our highest priority. This is an area which has always demanded our full focus, but there is still room to improve. By setting ambitious goals for our organisation, we will raise the quality and safety of our work to even higher levels.
Our key areas of focus
We actively promote safe working on all our sites, using training, toolbox talks, informal and formal inspections, and best practice forums. We also encourage our colleagues and subcontractors to talk to us on any areas of concern regarding health and safety.
We are placing even greater focus on health and safety by measuring our RIDDOR rate to cover all members of staff, not just those on our sites. Furthermore, we are using technology to improve the reporting and analysis of any health and safety incidents – this allows for more timely investigations and ensures that preventative measures are introduced.
The mental health of our colleagues is also vitally important, which is why we are increasing the ratio of mental health first-aiders and implementing mental health wellbeing training to raise awareness.
Following the Grenfell tragedy in June 2017, we proactively instigated a full review of our high-rise portfolio and identified buildings with ACM cladding. We are currently engaged in a complete programme of works to remediate those buildings.
Our progress so far
- We achieved ISO 14001 certification for our Environmental Management System in April 2025.
- We dedicated over 900 hours of senior construction colleagues time to environmental training through the CITB Site Environmental Awareness Training Scheme (SEATS) course.
- A gap analysis of our Health and Safety Management System against the requirements of ISO 45001 has been carried out.
- Engagement sessions on mental health awareness ran across 160 Bellway developments in FY25.
- 70% of divisional sales operatives attended a half-day health and safety course by the end of FY25.
- 166.88
- RIDDOR rate
- 10.0 %
- of employees are mental health first aiders
- 20.7 %
- of employees received mental health awareness training
Prioritising safety and wellbeing above all else
Our Key Targets for 2025 onwards
Future initiatives
- Roll-out CITB SEATS training to all Site Managers and Assistant Site Managers.
- Introduce Health Surveillance Policy and Procedures.
- 100%
- Audit 100% of divisions for Building Safety Act and Construction (Design and Management) Regulations compliance.
- All recommendations of the ISO 45001 gap analysis will be reviewed and implemented where feasible.
- Create a consolidated compliance dashboard to support leadership decision making and risk forecasting, including CDM and Building Safety Audits.
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