HS3: Health & Safety: Community - Construction

The intent of this indicator is to assess health and safety performance associated with the entity’s community. The health and safety of the community is a common key performance indicator for infrastructure developers.

Select Yes or No: If ‘Yes,’ complete the performance table and sub-questions.

Performance Tables

External Review

Select Yes or No: If selecting “Yes”, state whether the data submitted has been checked, verified, or assured (select one option; the most detailed level of scrutiny to which the data was subjected). If selecting ‘verified’ or ‘assured,’ select the standard from the dropdown menu.

The Scheme Lists page contains the complete list of accepted assurance and verification schemes.

GRESB does not require the selected standard to be specific to health and safety data. As such, a standard initially designed to verify/assure other types of ESG data can be selected as long as the same thoroughness and review criteria are applied to data reported in HS3.

Exceptions

Select Yes or No: GRESB is seeking to standardize the scope and boundaries of reporting to allow for more accurate benchmarking and to progressively move towards scoring of performance. If the scope of the data reported for this indicator does not exactly match the reporting scope (facilities, ancillary activities, and time period) as reported in “Entity and Reporting Characteristics” (EC3, RC3, RC4), then answer ‘No’ to this question and describe these exceptions in the “Exceptions” text box. Please note that if the entity answers 'No', then GRESB will not provide reporting-year performance data intensity values in the Benchmark Report.

Examples include:

• Temporal: toll road includes data on energy consumption from its street lighting within its boundary, but due to a data glitch, it lost this data for a two-month period during the reporting year.

• Physical: A power plant includes a switchyard facility within its reporting boundary but does not have data on water discharge for this facility.

• Operational: An airport includes the operation of mobile equipment within its reporting boundary, but not for aircraft, since these are operated by airlines.

Terminology

Community

Persons or groups of persons living and/or working in any areas that are economically, socially or environmentally impacted (positively or negatively) by an entity’s ope

Externally checked

Applies to instances when a third party has reviewed the data in a structured and consistent process, but no official certification has been awarded.

Externally verified

Applies to instances where a third party has reviewed the reporting against an existing scheme. When this checkbox is ticked, participants must select the scheme name from the dropdown.

• Note that GRESB treats verification and assurance equally in the context of the assessment

Externally assured

Applies to instances where a third party has reviewed the data against an existing scheme. When this checkbox is ticked, participants should select the scheme name from the dropdown.

• Note that GRESB treats verification and assurance equally in the context of the assessment

Fatality

The death occurring in the current reporting period, arising from an injury or disease sustained or contracted.

Health and safety

Protecting the entity's stakeholders from harm or death due to injury or disease. Often, this is executed by developing policy, analyzing and controlling health and safety risks, providing training, and recording and investigating health and safety incidents.

Recordable injury

An injury arising that requires medical treatment beyond first aid, as well as one that causes death, days away from work, restricted work or transfer to another job, or loss of consciousness.

Data: GRESB automatically validates data in the performance tables.

Evidence: Providing evidence of external review in the form of a third-party letter or certificate is optional. Evidence will not be subject to manual validation for this indicator in 2025.

Evidence should include:

• Proof of the existence of a third-party review of the data;

• Clear indication that the reviewed data reflects the reported data;

• A description of the type of third-party review (checked, verified, or assured) and the used assurance standard (if applicable);

• Proof that the data review applies to the entity.

Validation Basics

Materiality-based Scoring

Specific materiality weightings are assigned to the indicator depending on whether the entity reported to be in its construction or pre-construction phase under the Asset Development Phase section of indicator RC4. The weightings are set at one of two levels as shown below:

• No relevance (unscored)- pre-construction phase

• Medium relevance (scored at medium weighting)- construction phase

The weighting is set at one of four levels:

• No relevance (weighting:0)

• Low relevance (weighting:0)

• Medium relevance (weighting:1)

• High relevance (weighting:2)

Where an issue is of 'No relevance' or ‘Low relevance’ the indicator is not considered in scoring (i.e. it has a weighting of 0%). If an issue is of 'Medium relevance' the indicator counts towards the score with ‘standard’ weighting. If an issue is of 'High relevance' the indicator counts towards the score with higher than ‘standard’ weighting.

As a result, the weight of this indicator may differ for each participant based on their materiality profile. The weighting of the material (scored) indicators is automatically redistributed to ensure that a project’s sustainability evaluation is reflective of its unique circumstances.

For more details, download the GRESB Materiality & Scoring Tool.

Scoring of Metrics

This indicator is scored as a one-section indicator where evidence is optional. Only the metric in the performance table cells shaded in light green is used for scoring. The only scored metric for Health & Safety: Community is “Total recordable injuries”.

For the scored metric only, all columns (“Reporting-year performance”, “Reporting-year target” and “Future-year target”) should be completed to obtain points as follows:

• 60% of the indicator score will be based on the reporting of a value in “Reporting-year performance”.

• 20% of the indicator score will be based on the reporting of a target in “Reporting-year target”. For 2024, scoring is based on whether a target was set, not on whether the target was achieved.

• 20% of the indicator score will be based on the reporting of a target in “Future-year target”. For 2024, scoring will be based on whether a target was set, not on whether the entity is on track to achieve the target.

Reporting of external data review and exceptions is not scored in 2025.

Scoring Basics

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

ILO - International Labour Standards on Occupational Safety and Health

USA OSHA - Using Leading Indicators

Alignment with External Frameworks

GRI Standards (2018) 403: Occupational Health & Safety

Relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

8.8 Protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment

SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

11.2 By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons.