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Telkom Annual Report 2009
Safety, health and environment
We successfully
piloted a
stress
resilience and emotional
intelligence workshop
An industrial theatre show was a key driver in the roll-out of our Thuso Wellness days
which highlighted a step-by-step approach to improve employee wellbeing through
lifestyle changes.
Safety, health and environment
Our entrenched and integrated Employee
Wellness and Safety, Health and
Environment (SHE) portfolio continues to be
one of the most admired in South African
industry, as evidenced by the following
achievements in the year under review.
• We received the coveted international
Global Business Coalition (GBC)
Award for Excellence as the best
HIV/AIDS workplace programme for
our integrated Voluntary Counselling,
Testing and Treatment programme for
2008. The award was made by the
United Nations Secretary General in
New York.
• Our annual national HIV/AIDS
celebrations campaign, ‘Don’t hesitate,
donate’, was successfully launched
on World AIDS Day 2008 with our
employees donating thousands of
kilograms of food, clothes and toys
to 26 adopted HIV/AIDS havens,
orphanages and hospices.
• Our Direct Retail shops initiated the
Thuso Bus concept (Thuso is our
employee wellness programme). Outlets
in the Eastern Cape, including the
former Transkei, were given a working
day off to attend Thuso programmes.
• We successfully piloted a stress
resilience and emotional intelligence
(EQ) workshop in areas with high
degrees of trauma as a result of
hijackings, robberies and other criminal
activities. This will be rolled out
nationally in the new financial year.