Salmat continued its journey of creating a constructive environment where our people can reach their full potential. Using the 2011 culture survey as a base, all areas are working on culture plans focusing on constructive behaviours. During the past 12 months, a diversity survey has highlighted that our staff believe that Salmat is a place where people from diverse backgrounds can prosper. The next culture survey is scheduled for April 2013, the fifth in the series.
The development of our people is supported by a focus on training. During the year, the Salmat Leadership Academy was launched. The Academy lays out a clear path for progression in leadership based on company supported training, mentoring and understanding of different behaviours. Training in Certificate IV in Frontline Management is a key part of the Academy.
Salmat has continued its work through its Women in Leadership Council, on which the CEO sits, to identify ways in which women can be encouraged to take senior roles. The Family Fusion program was launched to address the need to provide assistance on locating child care and senior care, and providing priority access. The diversity survey shows that 39% of our employees have responsibility as a sole carer and 20% have responsibility for organising child care for dependent children.
Work continued on the company’s Reconciliation Action Plan, launched in 2011 and aimed at bridging the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. The three elements of the plan are:
The health and wellbeing of our people is a top priority and we continue to strive to achieve an injury and incident free workplace. During the year we launched our online Work Health and Safety induction program which aims to embed safety culture behaviours via interactive learning.
Our lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) has fallen for the fifth consecutive year, recording a 33.3% reduction against the previous year. The focus on injury prevention activities, specific to our injury risk profile, has mitigated the number of lost time claims that contribute to the LTIFR. In addition to maintaining injury prevention programs, we are very active in providing early intervention and return to work programs.
The Salmat Activate program supports a range of charities selected annually by a staff committee. Total donations of $161,863 were made in 2011/12, including the matching donations from the company, to 3 projects:
In addition, six new projects were chosen this year, to be funded in the coming years:
Through continued monitoring of our electricity usage, we have once again reduced electricity consumption across our major sites. In addition, energy efficiency investments assist us in better managing our greenhouse gas emissions and consequently we have achieved a 21% reduction in CO2 emissions during the year.
We believe in responsible recycling. All paper-based products that can be recycled are and we ensure that all paper-based waste is returned to our sites for recycling. To this end, we have further increased recycling at our sites by 7% during the year which has in turn significantly reduced the amount of waste sent to landfill.
During the year we implemented a program that provided our customers with information about a range of environmentally preferable paper product choices that have a lower environmental impact, which was very well received.
