In 2018, Bentley launched the ‘Be Safe Behaviours’ to colleagues: a set of guidelines created to keep our Bentley colleagues safe and healthy at work. Bentley believes that everyone has the right to ‘Be Safe’ and is committed to providing a safe workplace and instilling the importance of safe behaviours at work.
In response to COVID-19, Bentley Motors has extended its ‘Be Safe’ health and safety programme to look after the local community in Cheshire, as well as Bentley colleagues. Our company is focusing on using its specialist skills to 3D print over 30,000 face-shields and supply them to the Cheshire care sector, including all care homes, the NHS and other local community services. Simultaneously, Bentley is donating personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gloves, facemasks, safety glasses and seat covers, and also extending the Bentley ‘Meals on 22 inch Wheels’ service, where colleagues volunteer to deliver essential items in the community.
Dr. Astrid Fontaine, Bentley’s Board Member for People, Digitalisation and IT, states:
“This is such an incredibly difficult time for everyone and with our number one priority being the safety and wellbeing of our colleagues, their families and our communities, we are determined to help as best we can.
“We are utilising our world-leading engineering and manufacturing expertise, the remarkable vehicles and resources we have available to us, and also our extraordinary colleagues, who are going to such efforts to help the local Cheshire area and the healthcare professions, locally and nationally, who continue to perform such heroics. We will endeavour to work with the whole community in the proceeding weeks and months to help in every way possible in this time of great need.”