Personal health and safety

We believe that setting the highest standards for safety across our industry helps to keep our colleagues safe and builds loyalty and commitment to G4S from our employees. Expertise in health and safety matters enables our employees to act as role-models for health and safety best practice, helping to secure our customers and the communities we serve.

The nature of our work and the environments in which we operate mean that workplace security and safety present a strategic risk to our business. Mitigating and managing these risks so that our people can return home safely every day remains our paramount concern. 

The health and safety strategies of Allied Universal® (G4S’ parent company)) set the framework and vision for how each business can progress from a level of compliance with health and safety regulation to a level of differentiation – one where we lead the industry in safety matters. We recognise that the differentiation level across the group will only be achieved where a culture of health and safety prevails and where thinking and acting safely is the norm for everyone.

Our Golden Rules of Safety are our simple and easily understood behaviours that prevent incidents from occurring. Our Golden Rules apply in all geographies, service lines and at all times while working for G4S.

Ensuring we’re doing all we can to put our employees and safety first, we continue to raise greater awareness of the Golden Rules of Safety by emphasising the importance of general rules, road safety rules and specialist rules. We’ve also translated our Golden Rules into simple posters in 35 languages to make the messaging accessible and easily understood for our employees across the world.