Employee Health and Wellbeing
Workplace Health and Safety
Our company is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy work environment for everyone on its sites. We believe in the value of honesty when it comes to safety, encouraging open reporting and communication of any potential hazards or concerns.
We have commitments of zero workplace fatalities or serious injuries, and a continuous reduction in total recordable incidents.
Staff Wellbeing and Professional Development
Our company and employees firmly believe that our company’s success is driven by its people, culture and an unwavering commitment to safety. With a dedicated workforce and a strong emphasis on fostering a positive work environment, we continue to prioritise the wellbeing and development of team members while always ensuring their safety. Guided by the core values of honesty, passion and humility, we seek to create a workplace that thrives on trust, dedication and continuous improvement.
Tangible physical and mental health initiatives continue to be a priority for the organisation, with such a wide range of potential impacts to our staff from both within and outside the workplace we undertake advocacy, awareness raising and free testing initiatives for all our staff.
Community and Partnerships
Our company is proud to support both local causes that are dear to our staff, as well as engaging in strategic partnerships where collaboration can work towards solving complex social and environmental problems.
Agriculture and horticulture are sectors that have many shared challenges, and collaboration is essential to ensure the ongoing viability of these industries.
We have strong ties to the community and support the local rural economy. Driven by our staff who reside in the areas, we support a wide range of grass roots organisations with sponsorships, as well as product and financial donations.
Geelong Foodshare
With the cost-of-living crisis acutely affecting communities in the Geelong region we have partnered with the not-for-profit Geelong Foodshare to tackle food insecurity. Geelong Foodshare play a vital role on this issue in two ways; 1) Operating local mini-marts where disadvantaged members of the community can access a wide range of groceries and household goods at no charge, 2) Distributing goods to front-line food relief agencies across wider Victoria, this ensures that surplus donated food and goods are not wasted and delivered on-time to the many organisations in our state who are struggling to meet increasing demand for their services.
We support the Geelong Foodshare with cash and product donations and will look to develop our partnership further with employee volunteering and other opportunities.
The Joy of Healthy Eating
Nothing provides Cobram Estate Olives more satisfaction than seeing the joy that our award-winning extra virgin olive oil brings to people all over the world. Our greatest ambassadors are our customers, who recognise a high-quality product that tastes amazing and is good for their health.
A key component of our sustainability strategy centres on education and engagement around the health, nutrition, and cooking benefits of using extra virgin olive oil. We will seek to:
- Promote credible scientific research
- Educate and engage health care professionals
- Test a wide range of formats to engage new audiences
