Our Commitment

We are committed to improving the performance - not only of our business, but also the wider agricultural sector within which we work. We actively learn from those industries with superior safety performance to the agriculture sector to ensure we have a positive impact on the industry within which we operate.

At PGW, we are continually working to adjust our own attitudes towards what it takes to work safe. We want to ensure our health, safety and wellbeing efforts are seen as an investment towards achieving a workplace where we are actively managing our risks. We commit to identifying, taking action and learning from any failures, be it through incidents, near miss events, or gaps identified in audits and reviews.

We know we're not perfect. We don't know how to solve every challenge we face, but we have the pioneering, farming spirit that keeps us moving forward.Working for us - we invite you to bring your knowledge and experience from other industries and processes to challenge us and help to improve how we do things. We are a learning organisation, prepared to learn from our mistakes and move forward to ensure we establish safer and healthier outcomes.

Our Strategy

We revised and refreshed our Health, Safety & Wellbeing strategy in 2017 identifying five key areas to focus on between now and 2020. To support our vision, we built programmes and activities to improve our management of health and safety risks and develop the maturity of PGW's culture. We aim to achieve positive results that create organisational benefits, and a sense of citizenship where safety and wellbeing is a core part of everyone's job and a shared responsibility.

These focus areas are: People & Leadership; Critical Risk & Controls; Learning & Communication; Systems & Structure; Governance & Assurance.

Our People

Our approach starts with our people and leadership. We actively support the health, safety and wellbeing of ourselves and our colleagues. No task is so important that we cannot take the time to do it safely. We don't always find the right balance or get the result we are looking for but the attitudes we try to uphold are built off a set of fundamental beliefs. These being:

• The health and safety of our people is valued above all else;
• All occupational injuries and illnesses can be prevented;
• Excellence in safety is compatible with excellence in other business parameters such as quality, productivity, efficiency and profitability; they are mutually supportive;
• Safe, healthy employees have a positive impact on all operations and customers, and enhance credibility in the community; and
• Safety is an integral part of everything we do.

While health, safety and wellbeing is everyone's responsibility, we also have a specialist team at PGW who aim to make a difference through strong leadership and teamwork by proactively resolving health, safety and wellbeing issues. We encourage the participation of our people in committees to focus on improving the management of risks within their areas for the business, and also to work collectively on establishing consistent, standardised practices that are implemented across PGW.

Our Practices

Our management practices continue to evolve with our growing maturity. We have a number of established systems, procedures and processes in place - yet we know we can do better and continuous improvement is always at the forefront of our minds.

We realise that safe work practices don't stop when you leave work. We encourage our people to apply the standards and attitudes we foster at PGW, at home and in the local community.

Our Work Environment

One of the most challenging yet rewarding parts of our business is the diverse operating environment in which we work.

With over 90 retail stores, distribution centres, livestock saleyards, wool stores, seed and grain processing and logistics centres, open paddocks, sportsgrounds, vineyards, orchards, call centres and the back country roads we access to support our customers the workplace at PGW is as diverse as the team of expertise we have working in it. Hazard identification and risk management is key to controlling the range of risks we face in our operations, allowing us to continually improve our approach to controlling risk through assessment and implementation of safer methods of working.