To support our vision of being a leading organisation engineering the development of Hong Kong, the Civil Engineering and Development Department maintains an Integrated Management System complying with the requirements of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.  We incorporate quality and environmental considerations to all aspects of our projects and operations.  We are committed to:

1. Striving for engineering excellence.
2. Complying with applicable legal and other requirements.
3. Creating a safe, green and sustainable environment.
4. Partnering with the community in infrastructure development.
5. Monitoring the performance of our consultants and contractors to ensure their compliance with our requirements.
6. Preventing pollution and mitigating potential environmental impacts arising from our projects and operations.
7. Observing the principles of reduction of consumption, reuse and recycling of resources wherever practicable.
8. Building a caring and motivating working environment for staff.

We achieve continual improvement through regular review of the effectiveness of our Integrated Management System as well as its Objectives and Targets.

CEDD is committed to ensuring the safety and health of all persons involved in our construction works and anyone else who may be affected by our works. Our commitment to safety and health is enshrined in one of our mission statements, namely "Pursuing innovation and technology to enhance the efficiency, productivity, quality and safety of our works".

We keep to achieve an overall high standard of site safety. Our overall accident rate in 2025 was 0.07 accidents per 100 000 man-hours worked. Although this figure is below the prevailing limit of 0.3 set by the Development Bureau, we continue our effort to further enhance site safety.

One of our focuses is to strengthen the site safety culture at all ranks of our colleagues and partners. For example, we conveyed the message of our core values "Site Safety No Compromise" through the "Safety Stand-down Workshop" engaging the senior management of CEDD's consultants and contractors in June 2026 and a "CEDD Site Safety Forum 2025 cum Construction Site Safety Award Presentation Ceremony" in February 2026. Over 500 participants of CEDD colleagues, consultants and contractors had attended these events. In addition to prevention of major risks identified at construction, we encouraged the stakeholders to also pay attention to the minor incidents and near miss cases to prevent further development to major incidents. We also promote the importance of implementing dynamic risk assessment to enhance safety awareness during the course of the contracts. Our directorate staff attended the morning briefing regularly to ensure the quality.

We always encourage our contractors to participate in various safety and health promotion campaigns and competitions. In the 31^st Considerate Contractors Site Award Scheme, 13 CEDD contracts received a total of 33 awards including 3 Gold Award, 3 Bronze Awards and 27 Merit Awards.

With a view to ensuring that all persons involved in construction activities are competent to perform their respective duties, we have continued to encourage our staff to attend occupational safety and health training courses. In the 1^st quarter of 2025, Director of Civil Engineer and Development invited Occupational Safety and Health Council to organize a safety governance workshop and delivered a lecture for senior professionals to share his views on how safety culture can be cultivated and maintained, and his leadership experiences in safety and insights.

To upkeep our good safety performance, our top management has been striving to promote initiatives and measures to foster a positive safety culture amongst all our site staff and the employees of our consultants and contractors. CEDD's directorate officers have been conducting caring site visits with the senior management of consultants and contractors on a regular basis, thereby signifying our top management commitment to site safety and caring for our frontline staff. In 2025, our directorate officers conducted a total of over 500 caring site visits.

Furthermore, we encourage the application of smart technologies in CEDD construction sites. Our works sites have adopted smart site safety systems and were recognized by DEVB and CIC with 4S Labelling Scheme. To further enhance site safety in construction sites, we encouraged wider adoption of CCTV to assist incident investigation when necessary.

We would continue to collaborate with stakeholders in promoting and maintaining high safety and health standards on our construction sites in the years ahead.