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NZPM GROUP ANNUAL REPORT 2017

ANNUAL RESOLUTION BY Each company includes health, safety and
DIRECTORS OF CO-OPERATIVE wellbeing as one of their principle values.
COMPANY
At a board and executive level we are committed
Pursuant to Section 10 of the Co-operative to improving our safety performance, investing
Companies Act 1996 on 29 June 2017, the in safety, spending time to understand the issues
directors resolved: and implementing robust safety processes.
• That in the opinion of the board of directors,
NZPM Group Ltd has throughout the financial Strategic management, monitoring and
year ended 31 March 2017 been a co- review is provided through the health and
operative company as defined by Section 3 of safety committee who meet bimonthly with
the Co-operative Companies Act 1996. management and ensure that the board is
• The reasons for this opinion are that the fully informed of health and safety issues and
company has: performance outcomes.
a. Supplied their voting shareholders with
goods and services via a subsidiary As an organisation we put safety first and
company; encourage all employees to take personal
responsibility for their own safety as well as the
b. Retained the one vote per transacting safety of their colleagues, customers, contractors
shareholder rule; and and visitors.
c. Continued to promote the principles of the
co-operative enterprises. NZPM continues to provide development
programmes to ensure health and safety
DIRECTORS’ INTERESTS standards are met and clarity of minimum
expectations. All employees are inducted and
John DeBernardo, Craig Coxhead, Alister trained to ensure they are fully aware of their
Lawrence, Craig McCord, Stu McIvor, and Mark obligations and that they have the necessary
Whitehead are directors of companies which knowledge and skills to perform their duties.
regularly trade with Plumbing World on normal
trading terms. We record accidents and incidents as well as
near misses. The culture of reporting all near miss
Stu McIvor has an interest in a property that is incidents has seen our recordable near miss
leased to Plumbing World. John DeBernardo incidents triple over the prior year. Monitoring
has an interest in a property that was leased to these metrics allows us to focus on minimising
Plumbing World in April 2017. Both properties have risks and creating improvements at all levels of
formal lease agreements and rent is based on the organisation.
commercial rates.
Continued focus on reducing the number of
safety incidents and accidents has resulted in a
HEALTH & SAFETY further decrease in Lost Time Injury days, over the
past 5 years dropping from 44 to 9 days. Despite
Health and safety continues to be a key priority.
NZPM and its subsidiaries have formal health our progress, injuries still occur. During the past
and safety policies that outline the company’s year, 25 employees suffered injuries that resulted
commitment to health and safety. in medical treatment; 4 of which resulted in time
off from the business.

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