A good place to work

Our focus on supporting its employees is captured in our good and safe place to work initiatives. 

This commitment recognises our responsibilities to our people and our need to attract, retain and develop talent in an industry charactereisted by skills shortages.

For us, a good place to work is a safe place to work and employee health and safety is therefore at the top of our agenda. We have focused on driving improvement in this area and are pleased with progress to date.

Our approach is diverse, ranging from specific initiatives to tackle issues such as working safely at height, through to ensuring that our multi-cultural workforce is equipped with information, in the language they need, to work safely. In a sector characterised by a growing skills gap we believe that a reputation for great people management is the best way to attract and retain talent.

 

We want our employees to benefit from their work with Northern Foods, whether they are being encouraged to acquire a new skill on the shop floor, or they are a manager developing their career. To that end we have continued our focus on supporting learning and development and encouraged a culture of open communication where ideas can be shared.

We have also worked hard during the year to support initiatives which will benefit the wider industry, such as our sponsorship of the Northern Foods Foundation for Science and Technology, a bursary scheme for students of food science or related degree courses.