We are making a strong socio-economic contribution, supporting customers, local economies and communities, and the STEM skills of tomorrow’s energy innovators.
We aim to deliver the best workforce at the right time in the right way.
We believe all harm is preventable and so we strive for Zero Harm.
More than 50% of senior leaders will have diverse characteristics (gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability) by 2030.
We recruited 357 early career employees within Sizewell C, Hinkley Point C and Nuclear Operations
We have trained more than 2000 apprentices since 2012.
We have committed £300 million in education, skills and employment since 2012.
We believe all harm is preventable and so we strive for Zero Harm. This ambition means making sure our workplaces are safe and healthy for everyone: our employees and anyone working on our behalf. We launched the ambition in 2007, recognising that safety needs to be a ‘non-negotiable, enduring priority’ and that everyone deserves to go home from work unharmed.
We take a rigorous approach to risk assessing our arrangements against the EDF Group BEST Framework (Building Excellence in Safety Together) to ensure we align with best practices and we learn from our peers. Maintaining a strong safety track record of our fleet, and instilling public confidence in nuclear is also a key way to help solve the climate crisis.
Tragically, a supervisor at our Hinkley Point C site died in November 2022. An independent team investigated the incident to identify lessons and we continue to focus on behavioural safety training, embedding our life-saving rules and maintaining a rigorous approach to risk management against the EDF Group BEST Framework.
Find Health and Safety data in our datasheet.
We aim to provide a great place to work, by enhancing equity, diversity and inclusion for our colleagues and supply chain.
In 2021, we started monitoring the diversity of our leadership in terms of Gender, Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation and Disability. We set several targets, including 50% of our senior leaders to have one or more of these diverse characteristics by 2030. Find our diversity metrics in our datasheet.
Sizewell C is working in Suffolk and Norfolk with Women into Construction, an independent not-for-profit organisation that promotes gender equality in construction. They have worked to support 59 local women through a bespoke programme designed to raise awareness of the construction sector, give them the skills and confidence to apply for roles and open up employment opportunities with local companies.
We apply the principles of a Just Transition, which aims to reach Net Zero in the fairest way possible for everyone by providing decent work, supporting education and employability, retaining skills and developing new ones to support the energy transition.
We support EDF Group’s Just Transition commitments, which are about placing place people at the centre stage and focusing on the wellbeing of all stakeholders.
We are making a strong socio-economic contribution to local communities and economies across the UK. We notably support them through various funds to invest in local initiatives surrounding sites.
We have increased our supply chain spend with SMEs with around £1.3 billion with over 2,500 SMEs in 2022, which covers 22% of our spending to suppliers and 68% of our total supplier’s base.
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