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Strategic report
OCU Group | Annual report and financial statements 2025
Governance
Financial statements
Sustainable Development Goals update Our sustainability approach
SDG
Progress to date
SDG
Progress to date
3. Good health
9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure:
• Over 7,000 positive interventions raised. • Better than industry standard for Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) and Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR). • 95 Mental Health First Aiders across the business. • With the addition of new satellite academies alongside our two flagship sites, we now operate seven academy locations. • Achieved gold membership of the 5% Club with over 7% of our employees in ‘earn and learn’ positions. • Over 3,000 days of training delivered. • New graduate scheme launched. • New women in leadership apprenticeship scheme. • Second Gender Pay Gap Report carried out and the first incorporating all of OCU Group. • 34% of early career intake are female. • Continued our partnership with Womens Utilities Network. • Continued to be a Real Living Wage employer. • Maintained our Gold award through the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme. • Retrained local people through our Academies following mass redundancies from the steel industry. • A range of wellbeing and holistic support benefits for all employees, including 24/7 GP access.
• Delivery of sustainable infrastructure for our clients such as battery energy storage systems, wind farms and reservoirs. • Investment in innovative technologies including gas-free e-hotboxes and large pipe pushers.
and wellbeing:
Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation
4. Quality education:
10. Reduced inequalities:
• Training program delivered to the Group Senior Leadership Team on equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. • Continued to be Disability Confident Committed. • Signed up to the Care Leaver Covenant. • Provided employability skills sessions for hard‑to-reach groups.
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Reduce inequality within and among countries
12. Responsible consumption and production:
5. Gender equality:
• 99% of waste diverted from landfill. • 24,660kg of traffic management products underwent closed loop recycling.
Ensure sustainable consumption and production pattern
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
13. Climate action:
8. D ecent work and economic growth:
• 186 fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in our fleet. • 45 charging points installed at strategic locations in the Group’s site network.
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
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