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THE UNITE GROUP PLC | Annual Report and Financial Statements 2022
HEALTH & SAFETY COMMITTEE
HEALTH AND SAFETY
GOVERNANCE
Health and Safety is at the core of everything we do.
We are committed to providing a Safe and Secure
workplace for our people and customers living with us
“The health & safety of our people
and customers remains our top
priority. Following the introduction
of our new operating model in 2022,
all our properties now have 24/7
staff presence, 365 days a year.”
Professor Sir Steve Smith
Chair
2022 highlights
Student safety and support
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Professor Sir Steve Smith
Chair of the Health & Safety Committee
Richard Smith
Chief Executive Officer
Dame Shirley Pearce
Non-Executive Director
Elizabeth McMeikan
Senior Independent Director
Ilaria del Beato
Non-Executive Director
We introduced a new operating model in 2022, which means
that all our buildings have our people on site 24/7/365
days a year. 2022 also saw the launch of our Support to
Stay framework, providing a supportive living environment
to help students fulfil their potential, regardless of any
medical, physical or mental health difficulties.
Health and safety training
We reviewed our health and safety training courses and
worked alongside our learning and development team to
develop a new Fire Marshall course and Incident Response
online learning. We continued to deliver health, safety,
security, fire and wellbeing training courses to our existing
employees and new starters. Alongside this, we continued
our mandatory e-learning modules for all employees.
Third-party H&S and security inspections
We continued our programme of H&S and security
inspections throughout our buildings, with this now
overseen by our Group Risk & Assurance team.
NUMBER OF MEETINGS
Contractor forum
4
We launched our new cross-functional Contractor Forum
meetings, an initiative to drive greater safety collaboration
and an improved safety culture for all those working at our
development sites and within the construction industry
more generally.
ATTENDANCE
100%
