Inclusion and You - A-one+ Integrated Highway Services
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Welcome to the first issue of our inclusion and diversity newsletter. The purpose of this publication is to provide you with an update on our progress towards Investors in Diversity (IiD) accreditation and all the things we are doing to improve diversity and inclusion throughout our organisation. We will highlight forthcoming events and we will also share information to help improve our knowledge and workplace culture. In this issue • Freedom to ‘Speak Up’ • Employee Assistance programme • Key diary dates • What else are we doing? • Meet the assessor Issue 1 Inclusion and You NEW TEAM MEMBER Please welcome Sabrina Richards to our team. Sabrina has been appointed as interim investors in diversity lead. She will be working closely with human resource teams to help improve our knowledge and develop a framework that will allow us to create a more inclusive environment and a better place to work. Sabrina will also help us prepare for and complete our submission for accreditation to ensure we achieve success. If you have any questions or wish to catch up with Sabrina in person she is based in Normanton but will spend time in Kings Hill alternatively email: s[email protected] or call 07867468913 SPEAK UP! Have you seen the posters and cards about freedom to Speak Up? We are keen to encourage a workplace culture that is free from bullying, harassment or inappropriate conduct. It is also one of our strategic priorities to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of our employees. If you see something that is wrong or contravenes the health, safety or wellbeing of a colleague you have the right to speak up about it without fear of reprisal. Just call Safecall a free phone confidential helpline on 0800 915 1571 alternatively you can report online by emailing [email protected] Investors in diversity focus group 13 March Normanton office 9:00 to 2:00 13 March Tingley depot 3:00 to 5:00 20 April Kings Hill office 9:30 to 12:30 20 April Kings Hill office 13:00 to 16:00 17 May 2017 we enter our submission for accreditation 22 March deadline to volunteer for Mental Health First Aiders Page 1 Lunchtime talk disability awareness 24 March Kings Hill office 1:00 to 2:00 room 1 30 March Normanton office 1:00 to 2:00 room conference room Lunchtime talk race and ethnicity in the UK 4 April Kings Hill office 12:30 to1:30pm room 1 10 April Normanton office 12:00 to 1:pm board room Diversity and inclusion training (with IiD Assessor Jo Barton) 11/12 April Normanton 18/19 April Kings Hill KEY DIARY DATES Page 1 Sabrina Richards
Transcript of Inclusion and You - A-one+ Integrated Highway Services
Welcome to the first issue of our inclusion and diversity newsletter. The
purpose of this publication is to provide you with an update on our progress
towards Investors in Diversity (IiD) accreditation and all the things we are
doing to improve diversity and inclusion throughout our organisation.
We will highlight forthcoming events and we will also share information to help
improve our knowledge and workplace culture.
In this issue�
• Freedom to ‘Speak Up’
• Employee Assistance programme
• Key diary dates
• What else are we doing?
• Meet the assessor
Issue 1 Inclusion and You
NEW TEAM MEMBER Please welcome Sabrina Richards to our team. Sabrina has
been appointed as interim investors in diversity lead. She will be working closely with human resource teams to help
improve our knowledge and develop a framework that will allow us to create a more inclusive environment and a
better place to work. Sabrina will also help us prepare for and complete our submission for accreditation to ensure
we achieve success. If you have any questions or wish to catch up with Sabrina in person she is based in Normanton
but will spend time in Kings Hill alternatively email: [email protected] or call
07867468913
SPEAK UP! Have you seen the posters and cards about freedom to Speak Up?
We are keen to encourage a workplace culture that is free from bullying, harassment or
inappropriate conduct. It is also one of our strategic priorities to protect the health, safety and
wellbeing of our employees.
If you see something that is wrong or contravenes the health, safety or wellbeing of a colleague you have the right to speak up about it without fear of reprisal. Just call Safecall a free phone confidential helpline on 0800 915 1571 alternatively you can report online by emailing [email protected]
Investors in diversity focus group
13 March Normanton office 9:00 to 2:00
13 March Tingley depot 3:00 to 5:00
20 April Kings Hill office 9:30 to 12:30
20 April Kings Hill office 13:00 to 16:00
17 May 2017 we enter our submission for accreditation
22 March deadline to volunteer for Mental
Health First Aiders
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Lunchtime talk disability awareness
24 March Kings Hill office 1:00 to 2:00 room 1
30 March Normanton office 1:00 to 2:00 room conference room
Lunchtime talk race and ethnicity in the UK
4 April Kings Hill office 12:30 to1:30pm room 1
10 April Normanton office 12:00 to 1:pm board room
Diversity and inclusion training
(with IiD Assessor Jo Barton)
11/12 April Normanton
18/19 April Kings Hill
KEY DIARY DATES
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Sabrina Richards
Not only are we highly committed to developing our inclusive
culture, our client Highways England expects A-one+ to
achieve accreditation as a condition of our contract
Did you
know?
WANT TO KNOW MORE? We have developed a detailed action plan listing the things that we want
to achieve to ensure we meet our objective. To give you an idea of what we will be doing between now and the end
of April we have outlined some of the activity below.
Raising awareness of inclusion themes?
• We will host lunchtime talks on; race awareness, disability and lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) equality in
the workplace.
• We will coach senior managers to raise awareness of diversity and inclusion.
• We will create a number of fact sheets about inclusion topics, make sure you check your nearest inclusion
notice board.
What are we doing about monitoring inclusion?
We are issuing equality monitoring forms to everyone. You can help by completing and returning the form as
quickly as possible. This will help us create a diversity monitoring report for our whole organisation. In addition
we will carry out exit interviews analysis. Both sets of data will be anonymous.
What are we doing to ensure inclusion in recruitment?
We are contacting the recruitment agencies that we work with to obtain key diversity information
How will we collate and capture best practice?
Each area has a dedicated Investors in Diversity steering group which will develop a portfolio of evidence on
diversity and inclusion for us to include in our submission for accreditation.
Issue 1 Inclusion and You
Meet the assessor Jo Barton is our appointed
Investors in Diversity assessor. She will be visiting
both Area 12 and Area 4 over the next few weeks to
speak to some of you. Jo will also deliver some
training on inclusion to help us understand more
about how we can change our behaviour.
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Employee Assistance programme
Did you know that our three parent companies CH2M,
Colas and Costain have dedicated Employee Assistance
programmes to help support employees with a wide range
of issues from debt counselling to bereavement support?
If you need support with any issues that are affecting you
please contact the following;
Ch2m employees– (Magelian) 0800243458
Colas employees- (Unum) 08000723877
Costain employees– (First assist) 0800716017
