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Our people

We will invest in our people as the greatest asset to our business

As a service provider, ADAS depends on the people who work with and for it. Taking care of our staff and helping them realise their potential remain our priority.

  • Skills: Develop our staff through improved access to training and supporting professional bodies.
  • Wellbeing: Support the physical, mental, social and financial wellbeing of our employees.
  • Health and safety: Prioritise health and safety in all that we do.
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion: Build a diverse and inclusive workspace in which everyone is treated respectfully and fairly.

Skills

  • Develop our staff through improved access to training and supporting professional bodies.
  • Host at least two RSK graduates per year, with a view to offering permanent employment.
  • Place at least five individuals per year on the RSK Leadership Development Programme.
  • Support chartership/membership of professional bodies for three employees.
  • Deliver £100,000/year pro bono professional support to charitable organisations.
  • Support at least three apprenticeships per year.
  • Complete 200 hours of training of level 2 or above, leading to a professional qualification, annually.

Wellbeing

  • Support the physical, mental, social and financial wellbeing of our employees.
  • Develop a programme of wellbeing events and promote them across the business to support active inclusion.
  • Identify wellbeing champions and mental health first aiders across the business and promote their support to colleagues.
  • Set up a formal mentoring programme, assigning 450 hours of mentoring to provide support and guidance to early careers staff.

Health and safety

  • Prioritise health and safety in all that we do.
  • Ensure all staff submit at least two near misses or positive interventions (NMPI) per year.
  • Create a weekly NMPI log and circulate to all ADAS staff.
  • Demonstrate full engagement in Safety Month activities.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

  • Build a diverse and inclusive workspace in which everyone is treated respectfully and fairly.
  • Train 80% of employees involved in recruitment on inclusive recruitment practices.
  • Increase the representation of women in our workforce by 5% and reduce the gender pay gap.
  • Volunteer 25 hours to educational institutions and local communities to encourage under-represented groups into STEM subjects.
  • Offer permanent posts to two temporary or zero-hour contract staff where there is a business need.
  • Engage a further 20 employees on our New Starters Network and ABC Careers Network.
  • Provide 10 well-paid jobs and career pathways in communities that may not traditionally have STEM careers.

Our other core themes

Finance and governance

Our environment

Our society

Our value chain

Sustainability has been at the heart of ADAS’s work for decades

Discover our sustainability goals and ambitions until 2030.

View the ADAS Second Nature strategy