Audit Committee
The Audit Committee will have the primary responsibility of monitoring the quality of internal controls to ensure that the financial performance of the Company is properly measured and reported on. It will receive and review reports from the Company’s management and external auditors relating to the interim and annual accounts and the accounting and internal control systems in use throughout the Company. The Audit Committee will meet not less than three times in each financial year and will have unrestricted access to the Company’s external auditors. The members of the Audit Committee shall include Non-Executive Directors. The Audit Committee comprises Robin Stevens (as Chair), Richard Kilner and Henry Pitman.
Remuneration Committee
The Remuneration Committee will review the performance of the Executive Directors, chairman of the Board and senior management of the Company and make recommendations to the Board on matters relating to their remuneration and terms of service. The Remuneration Committee will also make recommendations to the Board on proposals for the granting of share options and other equity incentives pursuant to any employee share option scheme or equity incentive plans in operation from time to time. The Remuneration Committee will meet as and when necessary, but at least [twice] each year. In exercising this role, the Directors shall have regard to the recommendations put forward in the QCA Code and, where appropriate, the QCA Remuneration Committee Guide and associated guidance. The members of the Remuneration Committee shall include two Non-executive Directors. The Remuneration Committee comprises Richard Kilner (as Chair), Robin Stevens and Ahmet Iplikci
Nomination Committee
The Nomination Committee will lead the process for board appointments and make recommendations to the Board. The Nomination Committee will evaluate the balance of skills, experience, independence, and knowledge on the Board and, in the light of this evaluation, prepare a description of the role and capabilities required for a particular appointment. The Nomination Committee will meet as and when necessary, but at least once each year. The Nomination Committee comprises Ahmet Iplikci (as Chair) and Henry Pitman.
CSR
Helping to tackle Health and Safety and CSR issues in the UK Infrastructure industry
Hercules has a strong CSR focus. A core benefit of its app is that it facilitates the recruitment of locally based workers, a factor which is becoming increasingly important to clients of the Company as CSR and ESG agendas rise. A current Hercules project based on the A30 in Cornwall had 100 per cent. of staff located within 40 miles of the site. The use of local workers has the benefits of reducing fatigue, time spent travelling, carbon emissions and cost.
It delivered over £1.4 million of social value delivered for A2 project with Balfour Beatty and in December 2020, was presented with the “Delivery Award” for work across a number of sites in partnership with Balfour Beatty, noting the Company’s contribution to social value and CSR.
Its Mobile Health Screening Trailer can be deployed on any site and Hercules has a RIDDOR rate of 0/ 1,000 employees for 2020, well below the estimated UK construction industry average of 330/ 100,000. It has set up strategic working groups on CSR, Mental Health, Carbon Management and Fairness, Inclusion and Respect, enabling Hercules to develop new social value initiatives and regularly conducts training to employees on the subject “Tackling Modern Slavery in the Construction Industry”.