Health, Safety, Security & Environment

At Jacobs, we believe the well-being of our people is fundamental to our success. Our passion for safety and our courage to care for one another and our environment inspires mutual respect.

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BeyondZero® is our approach to the health, safety and security of our people, the protection of the environment and the resilience of Jacobs. BeyondZero is the foundation of our company's Culture of Caring℠ and a core part of our values and who we are at Jacobs.

Our Vision

We believe that work must be healthy, safe and secure for our people and our planet. We go beyond our workplace and into our daily lives, creating a safer and healthier future for our families and our communities.

This is BeyondZero.

BeyondZero is the foundation of our company's culture of caring and a core part of our values and who we are at Jacobs. We are proud that in our culture, our people go beyond following rules, procedures and processes. Our goal is beyond driving statistics to zero. Although we have made significant progress since we commenced our BeyondZero journey in 2007, our performance can always be better. It is imperative that through our common vision and purpose, we continue to improve together.

1900

Positive Mental Health Champions trained to support the mental wellbeing of our employees (FY20)
25 %

reduction in employee recordable incidents in FY20

“We believe our enduring commitment to BeyondZero and our culture of caring will make our people and communities safer and healthier, and this is fundamental to our success.”

Steve Demetriou

Chair and Chief Executive Officer

Our approach to BeyondZero

We tackle all types of harm at work. This includes continuing our focus on acute harm associated with high risk activities, while ensuring we are managing wider health risks, including mental health.

We also focus on achieving better outcomes for our supply partners, especially in industries of greater risk such as construction, work in lesser industrialized nations, or those who are more likely to be engaged in temporary, geographically remote or precarious employment.

As the future of work becomes a reality and global challenges to our security, wellbeing and ability to operate evolve, we remain focused on managing HSE and security risks effectively and leveraging our culture of caring to deliver the best outcomes for our people, the environment, our company, clients, the community and our partners.

In 2020, we continued to demonstrate safety excellence with another year of zero employee fatalities at work, a 25% reduction in employee recordable incidents and a total recordable incident rate¹ of 0.17, compared to the North American Industry Classification System’s most recently reported² aggregate rate of 0.60. But our journey is far from over.

In late 2020, we shared our new strategy BeyondZero: To 2025 and Beyond. This strategy provides the principles that will drive ambitious, sustained and system-wide improvements in our HSE, security and resilience, and deliver better outcomes for our people, our partners and the environment.

de5ign - Creating HSE excellence together

de5ign is our framework for HSE in Design which takes us beyond base legislative requirements and provides a consistent approach to safety in design across our global business.

Find out more about de5ign