Our business priority is to safeguard the wellbeing, development and safety of our people and those who work with us. With 102,000 employees we put significant effort into ensuring that our businesses are safe places to work and we aim to offer our people the support most suitable for their needs. Our approach to human resources is decentralised and flexibility is given to each of our companies.

To find out more about our approach to developing and safeguarding our employees, see: http://www.abf.co.uk/our-people.aspx

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Health and safety

Safe and healthy working conditions for our people, contractors and visitors are of paramount importance.

Diversity

We are committed to offering equal opportunities to all people in their recruitment, training and career development.

 

Training

In 2010, our UK Grocery group held its second annual sustainability conference, to increase awareness, share best practise and encourage networking.

Labour standards and human rights

Our policy on human rights state that managers must take into account of the core ILO labour conventions and strive to observe the UN Declaration on Human Rights.

 
 
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Key to our success has been our highly decentralised approach, which allows each of our businesses to develop their own approaches to corporate responsibility

See our principles in action


 

HSE Report Download

HSE Report 2011

Acting responsibly


CR Report download

CR Report Cover 2010

Measuring our success 2010