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Employee Profile Steven ‘Scooby’ Hodgetts Steven Hodgetts (AKA ‘Scooby’) is a well-known member of the Tassal team. Scooby has been with Tassal since 1998, working on our marine farms in a variety of roles. He commenced his Tassal career as a farm hand when he was 23 years old, and is currently the Systems Team Leader at our Bruny Region. Anyone who has worked in a marine environment will readily tell you workers require a special set of skills. The environment is subject to varying weather conditions (rain, glare, fog, wind, sleet and sometimes snow), employees operate heavy machinery such as cranes, capstans, boats of varying sizes, forklifts and other specialist equipment requiring a high level of attention and communication from workers, and employees are often required to make quick decisions about safety and fish survival. Our employees need to have excellent communication skills, be able to make informed decisions – often under pressure, and be able to adapt to the varying weather and environmental conditions. Scooby possesses all of these skills, but on a whole other level. Scooby was born deaf to two deaf parents. On top of working full time, he has three children and volunteers his time within the Tasmanian community by serving as a Director/President on the board of Tasdeaf, which is a small not-for-profit community organisation. “I come from a deaf family, where both my parents and sister were deaf. We are actually the only fully deaf family in Tasmania.” Many of us are simply in awe of how Scooby has managed such a long career in the marine environment and progressed his career into various leadership roles with his deafness, and wondered ‘how does he do it?!’. We asked Scooby to provide us with an insight into his personal and professional lives and the communication strategies he has adopted growing up, and working in the marine environment: Personal life I come from a deaf family, where both my parents and sister were profoundly deaf. We are actually the only fully deaf family in Tasmania. One thing that made people smile when I was a kid was the fact our (long departed) pooch was also deaf – but only due to old age. Auslan, which is the national sign language of Deaf people in Australia, is my first language. I only learnt to speak English when I was around 4 or 5 years of age through regular sessions with a speech therapist at primary school. At home everyone spoke a combination of Auslan, British Sign language and spoken English – all giving me excellent grasps of bilingual language, which enabled me to develop a combination of communication techniques that I still use today – it gave me the flexibility to adapt to the situation and I’m quite comfortable in communicating with people on a one to one basis or a small group. 84 Tassal Sustainability Report <strong>2015</strong>
Sport was an important part of my younger days with AFL football, cricket, basketball and netball being the main ones but age, injuries and lack of time means I am now enjoying a weekly game of basketball with the Skretting Barras at the moment. Professional life I graduated from UTAS in 1997 with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree. Soon after graduating I landed a position as Hatchery Technician and never looked back. What challenges have you faced being deaf and working on a marine farm? I have to be careful of working around cranes and machinery as well as moving objects. I use my eyes and instinct – you tend to develop an elevated sense of awareness working in unpredictable and potentially dangerous environments. Teams within marine operations tend to be small groups of three or four so this works well for me as we get to know each other pretty well. An advantage that I have over my hearing workmates is the fact I’m able to lip read in areas where there is a lot of noise from machinery in operation. Everyone on the team looks out for each other as part of our safety culture. What strategies have your workmates adopted to effectively communicate with you? For some work colleagues, working with me has helped develop some of their hidden talents in communicating using methods that they wouldn’t normally use. As an example, working with me over a period of time increased their use of body language and facial or arm gestures, firstly getting my attention and waiting for me to look at them before talking to me, talking more clearly without a cigarette in their mouth, in some cases learning how to lip read me from a short distance and vice versa ————————— Tassal Sustainability Report <strong>2015</strong> 85
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Contents Message from our Chairman
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“We achieved ASC certification fo
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Message from Ian Miles Head of Safe
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Our Salmon Our Biological Assets Ta
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Our Network - Sites MELBOURNE, VICT
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from Tasmania, increased by 194% ($
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Key Enablers The key enablers for t
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Case Study: Good Governance - Senat
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certification to Best Aquaculture P
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Goal Description FISH HEALTH & WELF
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Description PEOPLE Impact on sustai
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Description ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES I
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Our Material Issues We have streaml
Page 33 and 34: Linking Material Impacts to the GRI
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Page 39 and 40: At each meal, the following factors
Page 41 and 42: Tassal’s Fish-In / Fish-Out Ratio
Page 43 and 44: Description Breeding and genetics I
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Page 65 and 66: GHG by source (t CO 2 e) 0.48 0.47
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Page 81 and 82: Gender Demographics Total number of
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