Equality & Diversity is about giving value to all workers, benefiting from and embracing their differences. UK legislation sets minimum standards for companies to support successful workplace diversity and equality – covering age, disability, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation among others.
At TRAD Scaffolding, we want to go beyond these minimum standards and set the bar much higher. We are building a fully inclusive environment that contributes to our employees’ wellbeing and success.
Equal opportunity is often seen as treating everyone in exactly the same way. But to provide real equality of opportunity, people need to be treated differently in ways that are fair and tailored to their needs, and also in ways that are aligned to business needs and objectives.
At TRAD Scaffolding, our workplace is already a diverse and inclusive environment but we implement initiatives that will inspire and promote more successes across the group.
AGE POSITIVE
We see the benefit of encouraging more young people to enter our sector: they bring different ideas, knowledge and energy, and we value their perspectives. We work with apprentices from local schools and colleges to bring them opportunities to learn about our industry. At the other end of the scale, we aim to offer opportunities to those who perhaps no longer want to be ‘on the tools’ but to move into another type of role within the company. Age is not a defining factor.
GENDER DIVERSE
Women are under-represented across construction generally, and in scaffolding in particular. The nature of the work may be largely to blame in some respects, but there are many positions in the TRAD Scaffolding Group where women have been encouraged and mentored, and gone on to excel in senior positions such as surveying and estimating. We aim to create more mentoring and training schemes to give women the chance to become operational heads within supervision and contracts management, and eventually board directors.
We aspire to prevent discrimination and to attract the best employees and workers regardless of gender, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, age, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, political or other beliefs.
EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
Our significant workforce includes people with academic qualifications, vocational training, professional qualifications, and no formal qualifications at all. We want to ensure that everyone can access training and mentoring programmes to give them the opportunity for career progression. We want to build a culture where hard work, dedication and competence are rewarded. Workplace diversity and equality is about valuing every employee as an individual.