CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

“Our environment is precious. Help us to protect it for future generations.”

Betts Associates is proud to have achieved ISO 14001 environmental management, demonstrating our commitment to the challenges our industry faces.

Our proactive approach to monitoring our environmental impact includes:

• Reducing wastage
• Minimizing material resources
• Effectively recycling and re-use of materials
• Using energy efficiently
• Promotion of sustainable solutions

The long lasting relationships we have achieved are testament to the high quality service we deliver across all our projects.

We strive for continuous improvement through our stringent quality management processes, thus bettering our client experience.

Our staff are ‘fully carded’ through the CSCS scheme and we have recently attained ISO 18001:2007 accreditation, making us one of the first consultants to achieve this new standard in occupational health and safety.

Our values, quality, integrity and sustainability, embody our day to day approach to work. In addition to ISO 18001 we have also achieved ISO 9001 quality assurance and are registered with Constructionline.

We are committed to the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources, ensuring our suppliers work to the same ethos. We believe that sustainability is the key to a more successful business and wherever possible promote sustainable solutions for our projects by:

• Reducing the materials used across our projects
• Substituting materials to lower resource-intensiveness, cost or impact
• Using more sustainable inputs
• Choosing lower-carbon modes of transport
• Fostering collaboration among our suppliers

We have a zero tolerance stance to slavery and human trafficking and Betts Associates Limited is committed to improving our practices to combat slavery and human trafficking. We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains or in any part of our business. Our commitment is to act ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implement and enforce effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in out supply chains. 

As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk we have in place systems to:

• Identify and assess potential risk areas in our supply chains.
• Mitigate the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains.
• Monitor potential risk areas in our supply chains.
• Protect whistle blowers. 

To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains and our business, we provide awareness training to our staff. 

Under the provisions of the Bribery Act 2010, which came into force in 2011 and the statutory duties of employers and employees. To enable these statutory duties to be carried out, it is the Policy of this Organisation, so far as is reasonably practicable, to safeguard against bribery or corruption carried out by any of its employees or Directors, or by anyone working on its behalf.

Any allegation of bribery by an employee or Director will be investigated in accordance with Betts disciplinary procedures and may be reported to the authorities as appropriate.

It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities in accordance with the developments in the field of race relations, age, sex equality, sexual orientation, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership and the legislation to protect against discrimination in employment. 

These policies are related but not limited to: recruitment and selection, appointments, promotion, transfer, leave of absence, termination, rates of pay, training and use of facilities. Betts Associates is committed to an on-going programme of equal employment and non-discrimination for all. These policies also relate to how we offer and provide services to our customers and the community.