Safety
EMR 0.68, and the number we care about more.
Every contractor publishes a modification rate. Fewer publish how many times they stopped their own work.
The figures
- Experience modification rate: 0.68, held below 0.75 for six consecutive years
- Total recordable incident rate: 1.1 against a sector average near 2.4
- Lost-time incidents in the last three years: one, a fractured wrist on a stair tower
- Work stopped by our own staff in 2025: 31 times
Why the last number is the real one
A modification rate tells you what has already happened. The number of times a foreman halted work tells you whether people believe they are allowed to. Thirty-one stoppages on our own jobs in a year is not a sign of a chaotic site; it is the programme working, and we publish it because a firm reporting zero is either very small or not counting.
What we require of subcontractors
A written safety programme, an EMR under 1.0, and a competent person on site whenever their work is active. We have removed trades from projects for the third of those and would again.
Occupied buildings
Most of our work happens around people who are not on our payroll: patients, students, staff. Their safety is not covered by a construction safety programme, which is why every occupied-building job gets a separate plan agreed with the client before mobilisation.