We recognise that the success of our business depends on the talent and commitment of our people.
Around 5,000 people work at Warburtons. We want to keep everyone safe and well in the workplace, make sure that we are all respected as individuals and have every opportunity for personal and job development.
Every Warburtons bakery has a manager who is responsible for health and safety and who works with a network of other safety professionals.
We work on the principle that every accident is preventable and employ an approach called ‘culture based safety’ that promotes safe behaviours through greater awareness and understanding.
Our safety record is consistently improving and our current ‘recordable incident rate’ (injuries reportable to the Health and Safety Executive) is less than 1 per 100,000 hours worked. Our aim is an injury and accident free workplace.
As a family business, we have a friendly family ethos and try to help people achieve a sensible work-life balance.
As well as an occupational health service, a low-cost healthcare plan is available to everyone (including their children) and we support working parents with a childcare voucher scheme.
To help with life’s ups and downs, we also run a comprehensive employee assistance programme that offers a range of specialist advice on the law and money, marriage and relationships, children, stress, care facilities, bereavement and more.
Like any successful business, we need to attract, retain, motivate and develop the best and most talented people.
To help us do this, we are committed to equal opportunities and fair treatment. We encourage people in their career development and in learning new skills, and strive to provide a wide range of training opportunities.
We are recognised ‘Investors in People’, support the University for Industry’s LearnDirect e-learning network and recognise and reward the contribution of individuals and teams.
We are also working to extend the range of our Human Resources Programme, by establishing literacy programmes, for example, and improving the design of apprenticeships and training – building professionalism for the future.
Warburtons sets great store by the views of people who work in the business. To get an accurate measure.
Of these, we commission an independently run survey every two years and smaller 6-monthly ‘snapshot’ surveys.
83% of our people took part in the latest two-year survey and the results showed improvements in 54 out of 58 subjects covered.
The results help us identify areas where we need to improve and focus on maintaining standards where we know we are getting it right.
