Our Sellafield - May 2021

Business Our Manifesto Environment Safety 9 WE CARE ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT How ISO44001 will help you navigate your way out of lockdown: • It suggests creating joint objectives – if you’re being truly collaborative, you need to have these. It means that everyone is clear on what they’re here to do. • It has buy-in at the very top – without an understanding at the highest levels, true collaboration won’t happen. It needs to have the full backing of everyone involved. • We’re developing our competency assessment and training – to ensure that all the people involved – including those leading – have the right skills and approach. • Effective team integration and improved engagement is building and developing a ‘one team approach’ • As it gets embedded the practices brought in by ISO44001 offer agility and quick mobilisation to changing conditions – something we’ll need in this ever-changing situation. would have to make 800 people in our supply chain redundant. We didn’t want to do that so we worked collaboratively towards an outcome. We were able to talk to our trade unions and supply chains and agree a flexible approach which meant that we reduced 800 potential redundancies to below 30, easing the effect on both our supply chain and our local communities. “Having ISO44001 in place was absolutely vital. It demonstrates our commitment to want to work differently, which is more powerful than a written or verbal intent. “It equips us with an approach and the tools needed to identify strengths and weaknesses in our partnerships. Doing this creates a foundation from which we can work collaboratively around a set of aligned objectives and outcomes. It helps us engage with potential partners, setting up relationships for success from day one. “And that is exactly what we did when it came to dealing with the lockdown – identifying and agreeing those joint outcomes we could work together towards.” For Alan, the work done to deal with the issues created by lockdown, and how Sellafield found an early way out of it, shows the value of having ISO44001 certification. He said: “It allows us to focus on how we develop added mutual value into any relationship, creating a one team approach, having absolute clarity around objectives/outcomes, from which we can jointly manage performance more effectively and deliver stunning results with a right first time mindset.” It’s not just about restarting after lockdown. Collaboration is seen as key to everything we do – a golden thread that is being embedded across the business. We’re delivering our new infrastructure through the Programme and Project Partners (PPP), a ground- breaking 20 year partnership approach. Effective collaboration will be vital to its success. Alan said: “Effective collaborative working is fundamental to the successful working arrangements for future delivery, including through our PPP and other strategic supplier arrangements.”