SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2015

Message from Ian Miles
Head of Safety
“We are extremely proud
to say that all our safety
goals were achieved in
the year of review.”
Our focus this past year has been
to continuously improve all safety
programs and processes. As with
previous years, we never leave good
enough alone. It has become our habit
to continuously seek opportunities to
refine, simplify and improve the way we
go about doing the job safely. Good to
great is truly alive and well in our spirits.
Tassal continues to focus on our Zero
Harm safety goals. While some might
argue a Zero Harm goal is idealistic or
unrealistic, we have defined exactly
what it means to us here at Tassal.
This is important to us and I believe
that even seemingly unrealistic dreams
can become a reality if we define them
more clearly, build a pathway toward
it and continue to do the daily 20 mile
march in pursuit of it. We believe that
once our people understand what the
goal is, what they need to do to achieve
it and are encouraged, motivated and
driven to achieve it, just about anything
is possible. We will achieve Zero Harm
– of that I am positive.
This was a year that was full of activity,
but happily the right kind of activity.
Just to mention a few good projects
completed: we implemented a robust
vessel safety management system;
we refined our Work Health and Safety
(WHS) training and induction programs
to be more effective and included a one
and three month check in/sign off with
all inductees. These safety induction
processes operate across of all our
operations. I am encouraged by the
positive effect this has had on our safety
journey including our ever improving
safety culture. Recent survey results
once again reflect the continuously
improving safety culture. Whilst I cannot
mention all the details, I can mention
that the highest engaged employee
group are those with under two years’
service, which indicates that our safety
induction processes are working and the
step changes we have made continue
to drive the safety culture toward our
goals.
Positively, our Zero Harm safety
platform has now been extended to
other parts of the business. The concept
of Zero Harm for the business is taking
shape and includes programs such as
Zero Harm for Fish and Environment
and Zero Harm for Consumers, where
we care for our people, we care for our
planet, we care for our product and we
care for our profit. At the core of these
programs are a set of values of ‘I care
for’ and ‘I take care’. All Zero Harm
programs have two main pillars, namely
compliance (which we internally refer to
as our ‘license to operate’) as well as
culture (which we can refer to as how
much we care and how we behave).
This has driven our safety journey for
the past three years and now influences
all Zero Harm programs to essentially
achieve Zero Harm for the business.
We are extremely proud to say that all
our safety goals were achieved in the
year of review. As you might imagine,
the summary of topics included in this
sustainability report are a mere fraction
of Tassal’s WHS program, so too the
achievements and the good work that
occurred as a result of the effort of the
good people that work for Tassal. I
cannot express my gratitude enough to
the entire Tassal team that has rallied
behind our safety vision and shared in
the effort and achievement of our safety
goals.
As with previous years, we continued
to invest in our emerging leaders and
again had 40 new students attend and
graduate from our safety leadership
program. This program, in its third
year, focuses on building an ever
growing team of resilient safety leaders.
At Tassal we believe that safety is
everyone’s responsibility, and, as such,
embarked on a journey to create an
interdependent workforce that cares
for, takes care and is safety focused
and will be involved in developing
interdependent onsite teams. Each
year we invest in our leaders, equipping
them with skills to become part of the
guiding team to realise our Zero Harm
goals. Again this year we succeeded
in presenting this course and we had a
100% completion rate.
Enjoy reading through the snapshot
summary of a few criteria in the safety
pages of this report. I can only hope
you come and meet a Tassal employee
somewhere in the community and you
will see for yourself that we are different.
My dream is that you see our nature,
that we care for and take care not only
for ourselves, but for each other, you
included, our planet, our communities,
our product and ultimately our Tassal.
Ian Miles
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