Pernod Ricard wins at Health and Safety Awards

Media Release 16th June 2010
Pernod Ricard New Zealand wins at New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards 2010

A company-wide effort has seen Pernod Ricard New Zealand win the “Best Initiative to Improve Employee Wellness” award at the 2010 New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards held at SKYCITY Convention Centre in Auckland last night.

The Awards, in their sixth year, are an opportunity to commend companies from all industries, sectors and regions who make a difference by adding a dimension to health and safety that a traditional focus only on compliance can never achieve on its own.

Pernod Ricard New Zealand has the ongoing aim of improving the health and wellbeing of staff and the company developed and implemented a national Health and Wellbeing programme with a range of initiatives.

The comprehensive programme included free health risk assessments, subsidised melanoma skin checks, an intranet site providing ongoing access to health education information and up to $100.00 subsidy to help make lifestyle changes, which has translated into an improvement in the health of Pernod Ricard New Zealand staff.

The Award’s judging team noted the comprehensive nature of the wellness initiative, its support by senior management, peer engagement, programme accessibility to all employees and the considerable improvements achieved in productivity and time lost due to injury.

These successes include 75% of all permanent staff partaking in the health risk assessments, 26% reduction in lost time frequency rate over a 12 month period and a 47% reduction in time lost through injuries. Days lost through illness have also dramatically reduced.

Pernod Ricard New Zealand Managing Director, Fabian Partigliani is thrilled with the Health and Wellbeing programme results to date. “Results are far in excess of our targeted reduction rates but the real winners are the staff - impressive success stories of smoking cessation, significant weight loss, early detection of melanoma skin cancer and an increase in self-confidence through participation in sports, all show the impact the Health and Wellbeing programme is having for each employee at a personal level,” Mr Partigliani added.

Pernod Ricard New Zealand is one of New Zealand’s premier wine and spirits companies at the forefront of New Zealand’s wine industry. Representing a rich portfolio of premium wine and spirits brands, the company employs over 800 permanent staff nationally and another 300 casual staff during vintage.
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