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THE UNITE GROUP PLC | Annual Report and Financial Statements 2022
HEALTH & SAFETY COMMITTEE continued
Safety in our development activity
Development safety – 2022 in review
2022 saw another busy whilst safe year of development
activity, with:
•
Site safety/Covid-19 – continued to work alongside
our contractors to ensure our sites are safe to operate,
together with Covid-19 testing and personal protective
equipment in place.
•
Wellbeing – reviewed our wellbeing offering for
construction operatives and engaged with external
providers to improve mental health and wellbeing
awareness across our development sites. The British
Safety Council is conducting a Wellbeing Gap Analysis
which we will implement later in 2023.
•
Safety reporting – encouraged safety observation
reporting, with a particular focus on near miss reporting
which is especially helpful for creating an improved
Safety culture.
•
Safety Audits – we enhanced our safety audits across
our development and refurbishment projects with
a more challenging metric. This seeks to push our
contractors to achieve industry-leading standards which
far exceed statutory compliance. All sites inspected
under this revised performance metric have exceeded
statutory compliance and helps to reinforce our Safe and
Secure promise.
•
•
the completion of the refurbishment of three properties
in Manchester (Parkway Gate, Kincardine Court and New
Medlock House). This £65 million upgrade improved the
fire safety and sustainability of these properties, as well
as creating an additional 100 beds. All three properties
were completed in time for the start of the 2022/23
academic year; and
the delivery of two new properties (the 920-bed Hayloft
Point in London and 431-bed Campbell House in Bristol)
with a combined total development cost of £235 million.
Our comprehensive approach to safety across our
development and refurbishment activity, resulted in 0
RIDDOR reportable injuries and 26 minor incidents in
2022. This represents good safety performance against
the industry norm and is well within our Unite internal
benchmarks.
Hours worked
Reportable
incidents
Reportable
incidents
benchmark
Reportable
incident KPI
Non-reportable
incidents
Non-reportable
incidents
benchmark
Non-reportable
incident KPI
718,467
3
0.30
0.42
15
5.00
2.09
2021
806,774
0
0.30
0
16
5.00
1.98
2022
1,860,904
0
0.30
0
26
5.00
1.4
2020
KPI calculated as: No of incidents worked x 100,000 hours/hours worked.
Professor Sir Steve Smith
Chair – Health and Safety Committee
28 February 2023
