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## Our People 

This year saw a new focus on Human Resources. 

GrainCorp is introducing standardised competency-based job descriptions, standardised recruitment procedures and improved performance management. 

## Occupational, Health and Safety 

The National Safety Council of Australia uses a star rating system, where one star is for a rudimentary OH&S system and five stars is for an exceptional OH&S system, to rank organisation’s OH&S performance. External auditors take into consideration an organisation’s standard operating procedures, its level of proactivity with regards to preventing workplace injury as well as its reactive procedures for getting an injured worker back to work as quickly as possible. 

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GrainCorp is pleased to report that its most recent audit delivered the Company a four star rating for much of the organisation’s workplaces. Starting at the Board committee for OH&S, moving through regional committees and ending up at workplace committees at the organisation’s front lines, GrainCorp is committed to doing the very best it can to keep its people safe and well. 

Utilising widespread consultation with end-users for developing standard operating procedures, GrainCorp is also committed to widespread training and development of safety practices. 

GrainCorp has now introduced an internal benchmarking system that will be used to bring the entire organisation to the four star rating. 

From adopting national competency standards for OH&S as well as utilising innovative strategies such as running safety competitions, GrainCorp is totally committed throughout the organisation to OH&S. This process has the goal of gaining GrainCorp recognition as a Best Practice organisation. 

## Training 

GrainCorp’s Trainee Program continues. The 12 trainees taken on last year are now into their second year of the program, which when completed should leave them well prepared to take up a career in agribusiness. A further 12 trainees along with two apprentices will be taken in next year. 

GrainCorp’s grain handlers are now offered training courses that will give them formal and transferable recognition for their skills. Becoming accredited as a Level II or III Certificate Grain Handler, is the subject of Federal funding. 

