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Investors In People

In the last edition of this magazine we revealed that Ireland achieved the IIP Standard and the
UK business achieved the IIP Gold accreditation. We’ve since received the full reports detailing
just how well we did... they’re an encouraging read. Here are just some of the highlights.

UK A relationship focused business “We are
‘Sisk is alert to its social regularly encouraged
The single Sisk philosophy responsibilities; it continues to
be viewed as a family business to take part in
‘Sisk has effectively “It is easy to that cares for its employees and discussions about how to
delivered increased forget how far we the community in general.’ improve things, whether
visibility of directors have come in recent that is a problem on site
through roadshows years. PDPs, one to ones
and divisional team and team meetings are or how we are working
meetings, which are all regular and effective as a team.”
acknowledged and methods to discuss what we
are doing well and what risk management
we can do better.” ‘Sisk has shown a consistent improvement in its
performance around safety and quality indicating
appreciated by employees.’ that the learning and development strategy has been
successful. The organisation has reduced its exposure
‘The organisation is in the to risk and this is well appreciated by employees at
all levels.’
third year of its Excelerate graduate trainee

programme, one of the most impressive Graduate

Programmes that the Assessor has seen in this sector.’

Strategic partnering drive towards zero across HSEQS
‘Sisk has achieved considerable improvements in all
aspects of the organisation over the past three years; ‘All those interviewed during the review confirm that
employees feel that the organisation is well placed
to take advantage of the upturn in economic activity. Sisk puts HSEQS at the heart of
Employees are particularly encouraged that Sisk is
winning the type of work with preferred partners their values and their objectives, ‘’Sisk takes
that are a key pillar of the organisation’s strategy for with several people citing they safety very seriously
winning contracts within its acceptable risk threshold.’ feel that their record on zero as we discuss it regularly
incidents is one of the key at project meetings, have
factors that have helped them tours of the site and audits
cement long-term partnerships from our safety officer which
all help us to keep it at the

top of our minds.”

with clients.’

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