{"id":101296,"date":"2021-11-01T17:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=101296"},"modified":"2021-11-02T08:47:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T08:47:26","slug":"hs2-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/hs2-marketplace\/101296\/","title":{"rendered":"HS2 Marketplace to increase diversity and inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hs2.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HS2<\/a> launches Marketplace platform to increase diversity and inclusion across its supply chain<\/h2>\n<p>HS2 Marketplace gives businesses access to training and resources to instil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/equality-diversity-inclusion-standards\/96569\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diversity and inclusion<\/a> best practices.<\/p>\n<p>The number of disabled, black and ethnically diverse, and female workers among HS2&#8217;s supply chain already exceed industry averages.<\/p>\n<h3>Diversity, inclusion and employee wellbeing<\/h3>\n<p>Its seven construction partners have introduced a number of measures to promote diversity, inclusion and employee wellbeing including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and BAM Nuttall (EKFB) has created men\u2019s and women\u2019s health workshops, as well as wellbeing and prayer rooms.<\/li>\n<li>The Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture (SCS) is upgrading its employee app to enable staff to capture, track and monitor EDI best practices.<\/li>\n<li>Mace Dragados has implemented a new \u2018Make it Stick\u2019 campaign, which ensures that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/lgbt-in-construction\/77601\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LGBT +<\/a> trained allies are easily identifiable on site through high visibility stickers worn on their hard hats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The launch of HS2 Marketplace aims to ensure that this continues as thousands of more companies are expected to work on \u00a325bn worth of contract opportunities over the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Lomas, head of equality, diversity and inclusion at HS2 said: &#8220;With two decades of construction work ahead of us HS2 is naturally placed to be a real driver for change, and we\u2019ll achieve this by ensuring that every company engaged in delivering Britain\u2019s new railway plays their part in setting a new EDI standard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HS2 Marketplace enables our suppliers to be confident that their practices and processes, from recruitment through to the workplace environment, are truly inclusive and follow the best practice standards we expect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Creating a truly inclusive engineering sector&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>The platform is designed and backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/theclearcompany.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Clear Company<\/a> who earlier this year awarded HS2 with the Clear Assured Platinum Standard accreditation. 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