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.

BeyondZero at Jacobs

BeyondZero Logo

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.

  • 2100

    active Positive Mental Health Champions trained to support the mental wellbeing of our employees (FY23)

  • 0.18

    total recordable incident rate in FY22

“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.”

Bob Pragada

Bob Pragada

Jacobs Chief Executive Officer and Chair of Jacobs’ Board of Directors

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 – DESIGNING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

de5ign provides a consistent approach and a common language to the management of the design process, across our global operations, by applying five behaviors which create sustainable design excellence.

Find out more about de5ign

BeyondZero

BeyondZero Cover HQ

BeyondZero strategy (online edition)

BeyondZero strategy (PDF, 8 MB)

BeyondZero strategy summary (PDF, 2 MB)

 

Jacobs Global Environmental Management Commitment Statement

Commitment Statement (PDF, 98 KB)

 

Jacobs EHS Operational Excellence Consulting Services

Capability statement (605 KB)

 

2020 Integrated Annual Report

BeyondZero Performance

Jacobs' Climate Action Plan

Our environmental capabilities

BeyondExcellence at Jacobs

BeyondExcellence

BeyondExcellenceSM is Jacobs' approach to quality and commitment to flawless execution. With a core set of processes in place, it gives us a framework to deliver value on every project – no matter where we work in the world.

We are in constant pursuit of excellence. Our BeyondExcellence Global Quality Approach aims to provide the leadership, processes and tools to drive performance excellence and continual improvements across the business. 

With goals around creating and maintaining a strategic foundation, providing robust governance and global integration, building world-class talent, maximizing performance through innovative processes and technology and establishing and tracking relevant and actionable performance indicators, our BeyondExcellence approach sets the foundation for us to become a company like no other. 

“BeyondExcellence represents our shared drive to dream big while keeping our feet planted firmly on the ground. We are a company in constant pursuit of excellence maximizing performance through innovative processes and technology.”

Joe Olivarez

Joe Olivarez

Jacobs Vice President, Operational Center of Excellence

BeyondExcellence Awards

As people are at the heart of our business, each year we honor those going above and beyond every day, aligning with our values: We do things right. We challenge the accepted. We aim higher. We live inclusion. 

Our BeyondExcellence Awards celebrate those who raise the bar and deliver the extraordinary with excellence. Leaders who care, collaborate and push beyond, solving for today and creating a brighter future. This year, we recognized 26 teams and individuals who went above and beyond in safety and security, quality, ethics, sales, inclusion, innovation and integrated solutions delivery. To build on the positive impact our people make every day, each winner chose a non-profit organization to receive a donation in their name. Together, we donated more than $100,000 to worthy causes around the world. 

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