Health and safety: a core shared commitment

In every area of the Group’s activity, Bouygues Construction’s General Management takes responsibility for its commitment to Health and Safety and oversees its performance in this area. Managers are supported in this by some 600 full-time Health and Safety professionals operating throughout the Group.

All the Group’s functions (Equipment, Purchasing, Engineering, HR, etc.) play a part in the effective roll-out of training and material resources tailored to our demanding safety standards and working conditions. 
Another aspect of our safety culture is the daily safety rituals on our worksites, which help to anticipate and avoid risks. These include a morning warm-up, a safety briefing before starting work, and the ‘STOP’ rule, which makes it a priority for any of our employees to stop work as soon as they identify weak signals indicating the risk of a dangerous situation occurring. 

Bruno Magnin

We need to set a perfect example in Health and Safety, everywhere we operate. We have a responsibility to our employees and all those who work on our operations to guarantee a safe and calm working environment. When they have finished a day’s work, everyone should be able to go home to their families in a good state of health. This ambition, supported at the highest level of the company, has always been part of our DNA. We are striving to embed it in everyone’s mindset and in every process.

Bruno Magnin
Group Health, Safety and Security Director at Bouygues Construction
Bouygues Construction’s ambition and performance in Health and Safety

Zero Serious Accidents is our target, for Bouygues Construction employees, temporary workers and subcontractors as well as for partners working on construction sites for which Bouygues Construction is the lead contractor.

Discover our best solutions

To strengthen our safety culture, the Group’s 32,500 employees along with our partners participated in workshops to familiarise themselves with the 6 major risks involved in 80% of serious accidents, the 5 defence barriers (technical, organisational, managerial and human) that can prevent a tragedy, and our 10 vital rules. This was a crucial opportunity to understand, assimilate and act on the risks that are inherent in our businesses.

Safety Week 2024

10,000 worksites, 100,000 participants, 80 countries and 2,582 social media posts... Exceptional figures for an event on the same massive scale as the challenge of meeting our target of Zero Accidents! The same approach and the same commitment have continued beyond this first great day of action, in particular with the roll-out of the 12 fundamentals that apply to all our businesses, throughout the world, to guarantee safety for all.

We Love Life 2017