Overview and KPI's

A key step was assigning overall responsibility for the groups CR related activities to Mike McGrath, an Executive Board Director.

In addition we began working with our people to select the most relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure that we could monitor and measure our progress in this area. The KPIs had to have real business resonance as well as a positive social and environmental impact. Individual 'business owners' were given responsibility ensuring that the targets were achieved and the three year targets were set in 2007.

We are pleased to be able to now report on the final position against these KPI's. Please see the table at the bottom of the page.

CR is now a part of the way we liaise with our customers, it is a part of the way we manage our Supply Chain, it is central to our Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) Team, and we have engaged a number of our people in volunteering and community engagement.

Pleased as we are with progress there remains a tremendous amount to do. The challenges for major companies remain ever changing and in our approach to CR, as in our approach to our business operations, we are never complacent. Almost three years ago when we set our Key Performance Indicators, we were relatively new to corporate responsibility and what looked challenging then, looks less so now.

You will find further information about our CR activity on these pages and we are always looking for feedback. We would love to hear your views and invite you to get in touch by emailing cr@speedyhire.com.

Business in the Community Corporate Responsibility Index 2011.

The Corporate Responsibility Index is the UK's leading voluntary benchmark of CR. It's a framework to help companies to integrate and improve CR throughout their operations by providing a systematic approach to managing, measuring and reporting on business impact in society and on the environment. In 2011, with a score of 87% Speedy was awarded Silver accreditation.

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Responsibilities Roadmap

Our Responsibilities Roadmap is the central document outlining our key Corporate Responsibility issues and laying out our five year targets and progress updates.

The Roadmap is a result of an extensive discussion process with our people, our customers and industry bodies such as the Construction Council, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and the investment community.

This has happened through normal channels such as investor updates and reviews, our internal corporate responsibility working group and customer and supplier workshops primarily aimed at our Getting Greener from the Ground Up and Safety from the Ground Up industry programmes.

Progress against our top 10 KPIs is reviewed by the Board quarterly with a review of the full Roadmap annually. Mike McGrath holds PLC Board level responsibility for the Roadmap and Speedy's corporate responsibility agenda. We treat the Roadmap as a 'living' document, updating and reviewing it as new technologies and ideas become available and we would welcome your comments.

Please find below our Responsibilities Roadmap document:

Responsibilities Roadmap

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We have also had the Responsibilities Roadmap independently audited by Collins McHugh. The assurance statement can be accessed here. You can also view our KPI results for the period 2007 to 2010 by clicking on the tabs below.