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TOBIN Guiding Principles

During the development of this Strategy, internal 4. Proactive management of risk is essential to
consultation has taken place to discuss the the success of our business. We will only take
culture, norms and behaviors that are observed
those risks that we understand, where there is
within our business. We have identified those
an appropriate balance between risk and
aspects that contribute to a positive working
reward.
environment such as good communication,
5. The quality of our work is critical to us, where
integrity and fairness. There are also aspects that
it is right the first time, and always checked
we will work on strengthening together, such as
before it leaves the business.
risk and project management, but we cannot
6. We will communicate effectively with all
hope to do this unless we understand what these
stakeholders to our business, with each other
issues are, and what is important to us.
in our teams, with partners supporting us and

Clients during the delivery of our projects.
We have asked ourselves therefore what our
7. Our Performance Management Framework
values are, how we behave toward each other,
will guide, support and care for staff during
with Clients and what we need to do if we are to
their career development within a great
prosper as an organisation i.e. what are the
working environment.
“Guiding Principles” for our business. We have
8. Our Project Managers are responsible for
documented these so that we have an effective
effective communication with Clients, the
way of communicating who we are, how we
technical and financial delivery of projects.
behave, what we are entitled to expect of one
9. We will apply the principles of Resilience and
another and what our Clients and stakeholders
Sustainability to the way we run our business
can expect from us.
and our projects, clearly articulating how our

1. We always behave with integrity and fairness, approach adds value for stakeholders.
in an honest and ethical manner, working
The principle of Innovation will be embedded
10.
together to embed the values of diversity and
into our work, continuously striving to

inclusion in all that we do.
improve as an organisation, seeking new

2. Caring for our people is at the heart of what is
commercial or technical approaches, solving
important to us. This means; the wellbeing of
problems and adding value.
employees; sharing knowledge with each
other; working collaboratively in teams;
These are the lenses that we will apply to
balancing our workload across team members;
everything that we do. We will work hard to
always carefully listening to and supporting
close any gaps between the principles set out
each other.
above and what we individually experience
3. Safety is an overarching priority in our
within the business today.
business, the safety of our employees and all
stakeholders, in the design of our projects and
in everything we do.