Section 1: Principles of the Armed Forces Covenant

1.1 We Tamar Safety will endeavour in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:

• no member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen 

• In some circumstances special treatment may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.

Section 2: Demonstrating our Commitment

2.1 We recognise the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our business and to our country. We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by:

• Promoting the Armed Forces: 

  1. 1. • Promoting our work, activities and events through our literature, printed materials, training resources, website and social media channels

        • Publishing our Covenant pledges on a dedicated section of our website

        • Promoting Tamar Safety as a Veteran owned business

        • Promoting case studies of how Tamar Safety has supported current serving personnel, Reservists, Veterans and Armed Forces Charities

• Veterans: 

  1. 1. • Offering a range of H&S and fire safety qualifications, training, consultancy and mentoring to support continuous professional development

        • Offer work placements, insight days and mentoring schemes to Veterans seeking employment

        • Engage with the Career Transition Partnership

        • Recognising military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process

        • Guaranteed interviews with Veterans that meet with job specification criteria

• Service Spouses & Partners: 

  1. 1. • Welcoming applications from spouses/partners who meet with job specification criteria

        • Offer support and flexibility in granting leave for spouses/partners before, during and after a partner’s deployment

        • Offer support and flexibility for childcare arrangements, school placements and further support that dependents may require where one or more parent/carer is a current serving personnel, Reservist or Veteran

• Reserves: 

  1. 1. • Support employees that are already members of the Reserve Force on appointment, or wish to become a Reservist during their employment

        • Support mobilisations and deployment, granting additional leave for training as required

• National Events:

  1. 1. • Actively support and promote the Poppy Appeal Day and Remembrance activities, Armed Forces Day and Reserves Day

• Armed Forces Charities: 

  1. 1. • Support local and national Armed Forces charities with fundraising and supporting staff who volunteer to assist

• Commercial Support:

  1. 1. • Offer preferential rates and discounts to individuals or organisations booking training qualifications for serving personnel, Veterans and Reservists

2.2 We will publicise these commitments through our literature and/or on our website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the Service community and our customers on how we are doing.