Health, Safety, Environment and Community Report 2004

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New Zealand Steel takes pride in being a good corporate citizen and contributing to the communities in which it operates, aiming to make a positive impact on people's lives and to build a sense of community.

We enter into collaborative partnerships with community groups that are based on building trust and mutual respect and are sustainable over the long term.

We aim to communicate regularly and openly with all stakeholders and seek to demonstrate the respect we have for the wide range of cultures represented in our workforce and our communities.

New Zealand Steel is increasingly directing community support to projects that promote youth, culture and eduction. Projects we were involved with over the last year include the Waiuku Search and Rescue safe boating training video, Youth Skills New Zealand, Eco HERO Awards and the Maui Dolphin Recovery Program.

Strong relations with local indigenous Maori people are very important to New Zealand Steel. For example, the Waikato North Head ironsand mine is both the source of a key raw material used in the Glenbrook plant's steelmaking operation and a place of significance for the local Maori of the Ngaati Te Ata tribe as a Urupa (burial site) and wahi tapu (sacred area).

New Zealand Steel provides financial support to a range of Maori cultural programs and leases the Huakini dairy farm located in company-owned land adjacent to the Glenbrook plant to local Maori people, which assists in fostering farming skills.

Each year we support New Zealand communities through financial contributions to community programs and through in-kind support, in the form of products and materials and our employees' time, energy, skills and experience.

New Zealand Steel (site pictured above) is increasingly directing community support to projects that promote youth, culture and education.

New Zealand Steel (site pictured above) is increasingly directing community support to projects that promote youth, culture and education.


New Zealand Steel President, Bill Jacobs (far left), with contributors to the Maui Dolphin Recovery Program.

New Zealand Steel President, Bill Jacobs (far left), with contributors to the Maui Dolphin Recovery Program.