Viridor | UK's Recycling, Resource & Waste Management Company

Safety is at the heart of all we do. We are collaborators and partners, working together to achieve results - and we always have each other's backs.

Through world-class leadership we strive for success through our people, our partners and our shareholders. We lead our sector with innovation, teamwork and pride in our purpose.

We drive customer and market needs. We take accountability for our actions, and we will never compromise on doing the right thing for our customers, people and partners.

We are resourceful, always striving for better and delivering quality for our customers. All this is built on the foundations of strong, long-term relationships.

Menopause friendly

Supporting women at all stages of their career.

Family friendly

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave policies.

Women's network

Promoting development and connection across Viridor.

YourShare

A profit sharing scheme.

Viva Awards

Celebrating employee achievements across the business.

WeShare

Supporting employee-led charity and community projects, including matched fundraising.

Culture 1 — Getting the team together for a site tour

Viva Viridor Scm 2024 194 — Enjoying the VIVA Awards

Culture 5 — Taking part in the Waste World Cup

Viva Awards 2025 58 — Our people have talent

Culture 4 — British ex-forces in business awards

Viva Awards 2025 91 — It's the Viridor Way

HomeSafe Purpose

To make our operations and working
environments safer and healthier for
every one of our people, partners,
customers and communities.

HomeSafe vision

Every one home safe and well at the
end of every day.

HomeSafe mission

Together we will be the
SHEQS benchmark in the UK resource
recovery and recycling sector.

Core expectations

Our Core Expectations establish the individual behaviours that shape our approach to safety. They set out what your colleagues expect of you and, in turn, what you can expect of them. Our Core Expectations ensure that we can all work together and keep each other safe.

Safety absolutes

Our safety absolutes focus on the practical behaviours and everyday actions you can take to protect yourself and your team. These should be second nature to everyone across the business and should be applied on a daily basis.

HomeSafe essentials

Our HomeSafe Essentials provide guidance to help you protect yourself and your colleagues from harm. We believe that all incidents are preventable and that together we must do everything we can to make sure that we maintain safe, healthy and environmentally compliant workplaces. Our HomeSafe Essentials are applicable across all sites and all operations.

Life saving rules

Our Life Saving Rules help us to prevent the most common causes of serious incidents. Our Life Saving Rules identify hazardous activities where additional controls must be implemented, in accordance with our procedures and risk assessment processes, to control the risk to workers.

Our HomeSafe achievements in financial year 2024

Retained RoSPA Silver Award

demonstrating our continued efforts to protect our people and continually improve our Safety, Health, Environment, Quality and Security (SHEQS) performance.