Sustainability report 2009

Healthy communities

Balfour Beatty consists of over 50,000 people, designing, building and maintaining infrastructure to serve communities. So people and communities are at the heart of our business. This section reviews how we see our responsibilities to them, and how we translate those responsibilities into action.

Our pre-eminent concern must be safety – protecting the well-being not only of our own people but of everyone we come into contact with. Our sustainability as a business depends on how successfully we recruit, develop and motivate our people, so this must be a priority too. We, and our customers, also recognise that we have a wider responsibility to the local communities wherever we work. So we seek to make a long-term contribution to society through our community investment as well as the infrastructure we create.
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