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Our people, our workplace

Goals related to our people, our workplace

  • Provide a safe and enjoyable work environment which brings out the best in people
  • Attract and retain a diverse, motivated, skilled and experienced workforce
  • Encourage our people to develop and share knowledge gained from each other and stakeholders
  • Implement a framework that rewards employees performance against the delivery of our business objectives
  • Foster a Melbourne Water culture that encourages sustainable behaviour
  • Ensure that sustainability principles underpin our workplace policies and practices
  • Encourage and recognise innovation and ideas for sustainability improvements

Key achievements

  • Continued to retain and attract key people in an environment characterised by increased community expectations and skills shortage, including a significant increase in the number of young professionals applying for graduate roles
  • Began significant development of a constructive workplace culture underpinned by a leadership development program with the Australian Graduate School of Management
  • Exceeded our target for LivingSmart, with 89% of employees believing that their personal sustainability performance had improved through Melbourne Water’s education and influence.

Disappointment

  • Did not achieve our goal of zero lost time injuries (LTIs) even though our lost time injury frequency rate decreased by 10% compared with the previous year.

Challenges

  • Continuing our focus on strengthening our ability to retain and attract employees by delivering a compelling employment experience for all of our people
  • Continuing to work towards our preferred culture at a time of increased pressure on our people dealing with the challenges presented by the drought and climate change
  • Building on the positive response of our people to the availability of health and wellbeing activities and the LivingSmart program.