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Toll Safety Conference
Ken Gaunt presenting the OH&S
Strategy Direction.
THE TOLL RISK MANAGEMENT
CONFERENCE WAS HELD
RECENTLY IN MELBOURNE WITH
SOME 55 TOLL PARTICIPANTS
FROM AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND
AND ASIA.
The purpose of the conference was
to help improve safety across the
Toll Group by sharing ideas and continue efforts in developing a
consistent approach to safety across Toll.
The conference was opened by Toll Group Managing Director Paul
Little who presented the first Managing Director’s Award to Toll
AutoLogistics and introduced Toll Safe as an approach to further
improve safety throughout the Group.
Presentations were made by Toll CFO Neil Chatfield, Corporate Risk,
business units from Australia and New Zealand plus external speakers
from BlueScope Steel and other specialists. As important as the
presentations were, it was the many syndicate discussions and
feedback sessions which took great advantage of sharing knowledge of
the different levels of experience of the Risk Managers attending and to
develop specific safety action plans and make use of the ideas. It also
established a helpful network of Risk Managers across the Toll Group.
Following an introduction presentation by Ken Gaunt on the Safety
strategy of the Group, highlights of the business presentations were:
Paul Anderson from Toll NZ outlining how they improved the safety
culture in their rail, road and ferry business through a focus on
training, hazard management plus a health and wellbeing program.
Don Mead from in2store also talked about raising safety awareness
with programs to better involve all employees.
Peter Howard provided an update on the transport of dangerous
goods.
The ‘Chain of Responsibility’ was explained by Phil Crook and
Kim Patrick.
Peter McCormack from Virgin Blue Australia outlined the challenges
of manual handling of luggage.
Bob Lovf from Toll AutoLogistics outlined their extensive design
improvements to their trailer designs and other technical
improvements, plus fatigue management techniques, particularly
for long distance drivers.
Veronica Cooper from Toll Personnel talked about the value of careful
recruitment and training plus the benefit to employees of good injury
management.
Phillip O’Connell from Toll Rail (NZ) talked about the specific safety
challenges in the rail business and how they apply their rail safety
management system.
Mary Vespa from SPD talked about the details of the successful SPD
safety strategy and the establishment of a team to convert existing
processes to make better use of the new National Safety Audit Tool
being introduced in Australian industry.
Fiona King, Peter McCormack, Allyson Sullivan, Mauro Madrigale,
Phillip O’Connell and Paul Rosbrook.
Ang Huay Boon, Bill Ebdon, Peter Howard, Amy Goodwin, Don Mead,
David Bushell and Melanie Wainwright.
Other important presentations included: Pierre Lauwers introduced
the Environmental Risk Management Program. Melanie Wainwright,
Toll IT RISC system; Paul Peters, Toll Insurance Program; Adam Martin,
controlling legal risks; Joseph Chung-Voon, Justin Crowley, Phil James,
Mauro Madrigale and Vaska Ristevska regarding injury management;
Kim Patrick and David Knowles led syndicate discussions on safety
issues.
External guest speakers who also presented were, David Porteous
of BlueScope Steel who spoke from a customer perspective about
identifying and controlling significant risk and continual improvements
and the importance of training employees to work safely. Liz Puddy
of LP Consulting outlined the benefits of planning crisis management.
Peter Hobart the CEO of EDN’s (Enterprise Development Network)
talked about the benefits of encouraging a safety culture within an
organisation. Haydn Hewitt and Daryl Megna from AON presented the
benefits of risk profiling.
An enlightening presentation was made by Belinda Jacobson from the
Amy Gillett Foundation about cycling and road safety. The consensus
of the conference was to make better use of the numerous safety
initiatives and materials developed within Toll for use by all businesses
and to further develop consistent safety procedures such as a safety
audit criteria. This also applies to the development of safety training
and the establishment of workshops to address key safety issues as
they arise.
Chua Eng Chai, Mary Vespa, Pierre Lauwers, Ian Hancock, Marie Scotson,
Joseph Chung-Voon, Stephanie Tan and Victor Tan.
Greg Allen, Veronica Cooper, Soh Guan Seng, Kane Pitman, Paul Anderson and
Vaska Ristevska.
Joel Benfold, Phil James, Peter Dronsky, Andrew Lim, Peter Dwyer, Neil Salvador
and John Simic.
Lee Smith, Andrew Schreck, Narelle Alex, Jeanette Bekhazi, Conor Healy,
Phil Crook, Justin Crowley and LaiKuen Ng.
Managing Director’s Safety Award
THE NEW INNOVATIVE CAR CARRIER TRAILERS THAT REDUCE
THE RISK OF MANUAL HANDLING AND FALL ACCIDENTS WAS
ONE OF MANY SAFETY INITIATIVES IMPLEMENTED BY TOLL
AUTOLOGISTICS LEADING TO THEIR AWARD WIN.
At the recent Toll Risk Management Conference Paul Little presented
the first ‘Toll Managing Director’s Award’ for ‘OH&S Management
Initiatives and Safety Achievements’ to Toll AutoLogistics General
Manager Barry Clark.
Congratulations to Barry and his team at Toll AutoLogistics as this
was in recognition of their improvements in safety and reduction in
work injuries to Toll employees through a focus on safety practices,
such as driving hours and very significant and innovative engineering
improvements including new car carrier trailers to reduce the risk
of manual handling and fall accidents.
Toll AutoLogistics had strong competition to win the award from
Superannuation News
Consolidation of Superannuation Funds
NO MATTER WHAT SUPER FUND YOU ARE A MEMBER OF WITH
YOUR EMPLOYMENT WITH THE TOLL GROUP YOU MAY BE ONE
OF THOSE EMPLOYEES THAT HAS MULTIPLE FUNDS.
How many other Super Funds do you have?
There are over 25 million super accounts held by 9 million workers!
Having one Super Fund means:
One set of fees.
One statement of your benefit.
One investment strategy but usually with multiple investment
options to choose from.
Is there anything you should check before any action is taken?
Check exit fees on Super funds before rolling over.
Review benefits held in your funds such as insurance.
If unsure seek Financial Advice.
How do you rollover from your Super Fund?
Obtain a rollover Super Transfer Service form from your preferred
Toll fund.
Complete one form for each super account.
Return form to your Super Fund to action transfer of benefit.
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six other businesses from Australia and New Zealand improving their
injury frequency rate in excess of 60 percent and others who have
maintained a very low injury frequency rate.
The consensus of the conference was to make better use of the
numerous safety initiatives and materials developed by various
businesses for use by all businesses. In addition, further develop
consistent safety procedures with input from all businesses such as
safety audit criteria.
This also applies to the development of safety training and the
establishment of workshops to address key safety issues as they
arise.
Below left: The new innovative car carrier trailers that reduce the risk of manual
handling and fall accidents was one of many safety initiatives implemented by
Toll AutoLogistics leading to their award win.
Below right: Toll Group Managing Director Paul Little (right) presents the award
to Toll AutoLogistics General Manager Barry Clark.
Are you missing any super?
If you lost a winning lotto ticket, would you look for it?
If you lost your wallet, would you search for it?
Why is your super any different? It’s your money!
Approximately one in every three people have lost Super.
$11.9 billion of lost super accounts are registered with the ATO.
How do you search for lost super?
Online: www.ato.gov.au
Or Call: 13 28 65
You will need to provide Tax File No (TFN), Name, Date of Birth and
contact details.
What should you do if you find lost super?
Consider consolidating it into your main super account.
If you have any further questions on superannuation you can email:
Cheryl Barbary – Superannuation Manager, Toll Group
EMAIL cheryl_barbary@toll.com.au
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