A message from Duane Oxford

G’day everyone and welcome to the latest edition of ‘In the Loop.’

I’ve just returned from an extended break and would like to commend Jared Gilchrist and David Slack-Smith for doing a fantastic job, taking on GM duties while I was on leave.

Fair bit going on around the Eastern Region – for NAIDOC Week, we held a morning tea in the Brisbane office, participated in the Musgrave Family Fun Day as well as the NAIDOC Community Fun Day in Chinchilla.

As a business unit, we’ve been working on ways to promote our Indigenous employment opportunities and off the back of that, have developed an Indigenous Administrator Pathway. Expressions of Interest can be submitted via this link. 

To further support Indigenous employment opportunities, we recently attended Dorrie Day in Gladstone. Dorrie Day is an exciting First Nations careers event and brings together local businesses and organisations from around the region.

We’re a month into the new financial year and have disappointingly started it off with a number of recordable incidents – which is not where we want to be. We need to address this to ensure the ongoing safety and wellbeing of each and every team member– I encourage everyone to take a step back and ensure we are addressing any hazards and executing works with our core principle, The Safe Way is the Only Way at the forefront.

Let’s continue to work together, both individually and as teams, to uphold the excellent safety performance we know we can achieve.

Take care, check in with your mates and stay safe.

Duane