Westfield Corporation | Sustainability Report 2018 | 31
5.2 OUR PEOPLE
Westfield Stratford City
Westfield London
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2017, WESTFIELD CORPORATION EMPLOYED 1,929 DIRECT EMPLOYEES, AN INCREASE OF 12% ON 2016.
EMPLOYEE TOTALS BY REGION 2017
REGION
2017 TOTAL HEADCOUNT OF
WORKFORCE
2017 TOTAL HEADCOUNT OF
FIXED TERM CONTRACTORS
United Kingdom and Italy 558 22
United States of America 1,329 17
Australia 42 0
TOTAL 1,929 39
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY
The safety and welfare of our staff is of utmost importance to our business. Westfield Corporation strives to maintain its
excellent safety record worldwide. 95% of our employees have completed Westfield provided safety training. In addition we
review our health and safety policies regularly and adhere to a rigorous compliance program so that employees are aware of
laws, regulations and codes of practice applicable to their role.
We manage 35 sites across two continents so it is imperative that we adopt a highly integrated approach to safety, in order to
protect our employees, contractors and service providers and ensure a safe working environment.
We measure the success of our initiatives by Health & Safety audits, surveys, lead KPIs, Health & Safety inspections and the
frequency and severity of any injuries sustained by our workforce. Preventative and early intervention measures to manage
safety risk are in place and closely monitored.
We report our safety data using the Global Safety Reporting (GSR) system which monitors safety performance and we use
this information to assess and improve our performance. Furthermore, third party contractors’ safety data is also included in
this system.
Pleasingly in 2017, we achieved our goal of zero fatalities. Throughout the year, there were four incidents of Significant Injuries
(a decrease from seven incidents in 2016).
All four of the reported Significant Injuries related to human error and non-compliance with our safety procedures despite
receiving proper training prior to conducting the work. Corrective action included re-training of proper procedures for the
relevant teams to ensure the reinforcement of appropriate safety protocols. Additionally, we disseminated lessons learned
from these incidents to the teams across all of our centres and construction projects.