Personnel Recruitment

ConvaTech Pty Ltd's success in the past has been predominately due to its ability to provide premium quality service to the materials handling industry. ConvaTech's underpinning capacity to ensure that this outcome is consistently met is due to its capability to synergise teamwork, safety and continuous improvement into its workforce. To ensure these outcomes are maintained in the future, ConvaTech has developed a recruitment strategy that incorporates these key factors.

Recruitment & Selection

OH&S is an important aspect in the recruitment and selection process of new employees. This forms the underpinning basis for a safety conscious workforce. The essential objective in the recruitment process is to employ personnel that not only can do the job, but also have appropriate safety behaviours, attitudes and values to perform and succeed in the given work environment. Therefore, in addition to the usual competency profiling, safety is an essential element of the job analysis, prior to advertising and selection.

Medical Examination

All selected candidates are required to undego a pre-employment medical examination, to ensure the suitability of the applicant for the position available. The Company Doctor at the Broadmeadow Medical Centre will conduct this examination. As part of the ConvaTech Drug and Alcohol Policy, a urine sample for the purpose of drug detection, will also be arranged. The urine sample will generally be undertaken at ConvaTech but may be undertaken as part of the medical examination. A candidate will not be excluded from the selection process on the basis of the results of the medical examination alone.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Equal employment opportunity ensures that all ConvaTech Pty Ltd staff and prospective staff have fair and equal access to employment opportunities and benefits, and are not inhibited or prevented from taking up those opportunities and benefits through the operations of arbitrary barriers.

ConvaTech Pty Ltd is committed to analysis systematically the policies and practices of the Company and redressing past disadvantage in employment by undertaking affirmative action strategies. The Company is also committed to improving productivity and customer service by enabling staff to balance work and personal commitments, including family responsibilities.

ConvaTech Pty Ltd's EEO program operates under Part 9A of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 and applies to employment issues in the following areas:

• gender
• homosexuality
• marital status
• pregnancy
• race (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, ethno-religious origin or descent)
• disability
• HIV/AIDS
• age.

All aspects of employment are covered under the Act, including advertising positions, the selection process, promotion, training and working conditions.

Specific aims of the Company's program are to:

• enable all staff to have an equal opportunity to develop skills, advance their careers and balance work and personal commitments
• create a positive work environment where achievements are recognised and rewarded and individual differences are valued
• develop communication channels that encourage the productive exchange of information and ideas on staff equity and affirmative action
• promote selection processes that guarantee appoinments are made on merit
• create a work environment that is fair, safe, flexible and harmonious.

The successful implementation of the EEO program is the responsibility of all managers. A discrimination free work environment is the responsibility of all staff.