Our people – their skills and knowledge, the relationships they have built with our customers, their innovation and productivity – are critical to the success of all areas of our business. With the help of our people, we are exploring different ways to meet future business challenges and develop plans for moving ahead together.

• We developed three major workforce sustainability initiatives in 2006/07: workforce planning, an age and youth strategy and an employment value proposition.
• Our lost time injury frequency rate reached a record low of 7.4 lost-time injuries per million work hours.
• We received a New South Wales Violence Against Women Prevention Award for our work in the prevention of violence against women.
• We continued to provide financial education to our staff through our successful Money for Keeps program.
• Around 73 per cent of staff participated in our annual Staff Attitude Survey.
• We rewarded our people’s innovation and excellence with the National Excellence Awards.