Ensuring health and wellbeing
WELLBEING MODEL
Our safety and wellbeing team is not only dedicated to improving our people’s safety and wellbeing, but to achieving a zero harm safety culture. In FY10 we developed a three-year strategy to help achieve this.
The merger of Lion Nathan with National Foods saw the evolution of our core purpose to ‘bringing more sociability and wellbeing to our world’. We define wellbeing as occurring when both our physical and psychological needs are met.
Our wellbeing model (right) was reinforced in leadership and coaching programs across the group.
We also educated our people on the ‘five ways to wellbeing’, a set of evidence-based actions to improve personal wellbeing developed by the new economics foundation. These five simple actions are: connect, be active, take notice, keep learning and give.
Our people showed enormous resilience in Christchurch following the earthquake in September. Their spirits never wavered and there was an immediate and unified response to support each other, our customers and the community. Similarly, in response to the Queensland floods in January 20111, our people coped remarkably well and worked together to provide support to each other, customers, consumers, the business and the community. In turn, we provided support through workshops and interventions to build wellbeing strategies. The generosity of our broader LNNF team in donating their time and money to those in need is something they can all be proud of.
National Foods site closures
To ensure National Foods remains sustainable now and in the future we continually undertake extensive reviews of our operations. Where we make any decision to change our production footprint, our decisions will always be discussed with our people first.
During 2010 we announced the closure of our Wetherill Park site in New South Wales and the Cobden site in Victoria. We are phasing out operations at our Wetherill Park site and the site is expected to be closed in March 2012. Our Cobden manufacturing site was closed in December 2010 and we ceased manufacturing and closed our Shepparton site in Victoria and our Riverland site in South Australia.
We provide significant support to any of our people whose roles have been made redundant due to restructuring or operational changes. We try to minimise the number of redundancies by exploring redeployment opportunities for everyone impacted, and provide relocation assistance where appropriate. Outplacement support is also offered for those exploring external opportunities. Free and confidential counselling is available for our people and their families at all times through our personal support program.
1 While this event occurred outside of the reporting period, we believe that given its severity, it is important to highlight the positive way our people responded to such a devastating experience.