THE UNITE GROUP PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2024 110 HEALTH & SAFETY COMMITTEE continued GOVERNANCE OUR FOCUS FOR 2025 • Oversee the governance and consistency of health and safety performance across the business while prioritising the safety of our customers, people, properties and our workplace, as we strive to deliver our values. • Support our continued close relationships with our university partners to ensure student welfare is prioritised to help students deal with the financial and wellbeing pressures of university living. • Monitor the health and safety training of our frontline and operational teams so our people can assist to deliver our Trusted Landlord promise. DEVELOPMENT SAFETY The Commitee was supportive of the comprehensive approach to safety across our development activity, which resulted in two RIDDOR reportable injuries and 21 minor incidents in 2024. This represents good safety performance against the industry norm and is within our Unite Students benchmark. During 2024, the Committee received regular updates on development safety activity and auditing of contractor performance. Work continued with contractors to ensure sites were safe to operate with a robust site safety inspection regime in place. Alongside this, our assurance site safety inspector conducted random quarterly site safety inspections. This independent inspection has provided assurance to the Committee and enabled us to verify that our framework inspector scoring is accurate and that our sites are achieving industry- leading standards, which far exceed statutory compliance. During 2024, the Committee continued to oversee the three-year charity commitment to Mates in Mind which provides mental health support and guidance at all our development sites. The Committee monitored safety observations and near- miss reporting in our development and refurbishment sites to help build a clearer picture of our day-to-day risk profile and to promote a transparent safety culture. During 2024 there was an increase in near-miss reporting, which the Committee is confident supports a positive reporting culture. Professor Sir Steve Smith Chair – Health & Safety Committee 25 February 2025 Hours worked Reportable incidents Reportable incidents industry benchmark Reportable incident KPI Non-reportable incidents Non-reportable incidents industry benchmark Non-reportable incident KPI 2020 718,467 3 0.30 0.42 15 5.00 2.09 2021 806,774 0 0.30 0 16 5.00 1.98 2022 1,860,904 0 0.30 0 26 5.00 1.4 2023 843,553 0 0.30 0 17 5.00 2.02 2024 1,316,909 2 0.30 0.15 21 5.00 1.59 KPI calculated as: number of incidents x 100,000 hours/hours worked. Safety performance in our development and refurbishment sites