It is important that both of our divisions maintain an open and productive dialogue with all of our employees, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders, and the Board has tasked each Divisional Managing Director with ensuring that these occur. The two Divisional Managing Directors therefore have ultimate responsibility for CSR within their divisions and specifically includes Health and Safety and Employee welfare.
We believe that our business conduct, policies and guidelines which we have in place concerning ethics, sound business practices and wider governance issues will not only enhance our standing in the community, but also provide a better business for all our stakeholders. Significant CSR issues arising in or affecting any of our businesses are raised and discussed at each Group Board meeting. The Group Board and the Divisional Operating Boards have systems in place, including access to adequate information, to identify and assess CSR risks, and to ensure that these risks, and exposure to them, are managed appropriately. Each Divisional Managing Director is also responsible for ensuring that high levels of health and safety are upheld throughout the supply chain; conduct their operations on a lawful, sound and ethical basis; and minimise potential reputational and operational risk to the Group.
Both Operating Boards recognise their legal, moral and commercial responsibility for effective policies, robust health, safety and security management systems and controls to identify, recognise and where reasonably practical eliminate or minimise risk.
Direct responsibility for Aviation Safety and Security is assigned to Menzies Aviations Executive Vice President Operations, Mervyn Walker, who utilises the skills of a Network Safety and Security Team under the SVP Operational Support, Kevin Brown. Safety & Security management is cascaded down into each business through regional safety and security managers who are responsible for safety and security compliance within their assigned region. 2010 has seen further changes to the Network Safety & Security Team to meet the needs of the business and include additional resources to raise the security focus within Menzies Aviation operations. The regional safety & security managers maintain a strong functional reporting line with the responsible specialists in the central support team. Within Menzies Distribution, the Human Resources Director, Christina Mellon, has Operating Board responsibility for Health & Safety. Detailed annual plans are prepared by a Health & Safety manager, who is responsible for developing and implementing procedures and initiatives within Menzies Distribution and MMS, and these are approved by the board, with their implementation supported by two further regional health and safety specialists, with direct responsibility for supporting the implementation in the hubs and spokes in their areas. Every manager and supervisor throughout the division also has responsibility for health and safety reflected in their job descriptions.
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