Corporate responsibilitySound corporate responsibility practices are integral to our business

We are committed to sound Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies and practices as an integral part of our business.

We believe that the progressive alignment of our core values and strategy with responsible and ethical business policies and practices helps enhance employee engagement and competitiveness, and is also a for sustainable growth and success.

Our Board takes account of CSR matters in our business operations. Our Group Chief Executive is the Director responsible for CSR, environment and health and safety across the business.

Our core values and principles and the standards of behaviour to which every employee is expected to work are set out in a policy manual, 'Our Standards'. We apply these values and principles to dealings with our customers, suppliers and other stakeholders.

We participate in and engage in a number of external schemes including the FTSE4Good index and the Carbon Disclosure Project, in which we were recognised as a FTSE 350 sector leader.

We evaluate our CSR and environmental policies and performance as part of our risk management and internal audit processes. External consultants verify, where appropriate, our environmental key performance indicators and regularly audit our locations certificated to ISO9001, ISO14001 and OSHAS18001.