UK&I ESG Strategy / 2025 / Page 12
People: Advancing social mobility
Health and safety
Being an employer of over 50,000 colleagues, working with thousands of
customers, all of whom operate or interact with the facilities in our care
– OCS has a duty to ensure the facilities in our care remain safe to use
and we do not put people at risk of harm through our
business operations.
Some of our key supporting actions and programmes:
• Incident management – actively promoting and encouraging incident
reporting, no matter how small and ensuring all incidents are
investigated fully to ensure we learn and continuously improve.
• Behaviour and culture change – A regular cadence of behavioural
safety campaigns such as continued driving of hazard reporting,
to support our pillar of continually improving our safety culture
and performance.
• Health & safety performance measurement – regularly reviewing
H&S performance metrics at all levels and focusing on leading
indicators to implement actions that will positively influence
lagging indicators.
• Training – developing programmes and upskilling colleagues using
a combination of internal expertise and external support.
• Improving technical competencies & compliance – Utilising our
OCS UK&I Technical department, populated by fully qualified experts,
to continually improve competency, knowledge and compliance
levels across specialist technical areas such as Fire Safety; Water
Management; Asbestos; Electrical and Mechanical.
Social mobility
As one of the largest employers in an industry that doesn’t set
unrealistic barriers to entry, invests in its colleagues and enables
progression, we can open the doors to career opportunities for people
from all walks of life.
Some of our key supporting actions and programmes:
• Apprentices – bringing in and upskilling new talent and developing
existing colleagues
• People into Work programme – Working with partners to recruit
people who face barriers to work
• Supporting Veterans – to honour the Armed Forces Covenant
and support the Armed Forces Community.
• Employability – engaging and supporting local initiatives on our
contracts to equip local communities for work.