During the year, our employees had the opportunity to celebrate CSL's 90th anniversary, a major milestone that allowed us to reflect on many significant events in our history and to recognise the continuous commitment CSL has shown to developing leadership, teamwork and the expertise of our people.

In 2007, we recognised Peter Turner's significant contribution to the Group over 40 years. Now President of CSL Behring, Peter joined CSL as a cadet biochemist in 1967. Peter's remarkable journey of personal growth through many parts of our business from cadet to business leadership is testament to a system that continues to develop leaders across all business disciplines.

Health, Safety and Environment

Our health, safety and environment management system provides the CSL Group with a consistent global framework through which to maintain safe and healthy work environments. To ensure compliance, all of our business operations are regularly audited against the set requirements detailed in our management system. This program also provides ongoing opportunities to further improve employee education and make people more aware of their rights and responsibilities in the workplace.

We continue to offer site-specific initiatives for employees including yoga, walking, cycling to work, seated massage, flexible working arrangements, and health and wellbeing seminars. Our aim is to encourage and promote work-life balance and health and environmental awareness. This year, we launched a priority health insurance program for our Australian employees providing access to private health insurance at a discount to retail rates.

Employees all around the world contribute to keeping workplaces safe and healthy and some sites have exceptional records. This year, we are pleased to report on the outstanding performance of two ZLB Plasma sites in the US. Our Knoxville Laboratory has more than 2300 days and our Logistics Centre in Indianapolis more than 2500 days without a lost time accident. These are considerable milestones and a positive reflection of the commitment of our staff in these locations.

Global Leadership Development

For a number of years we have invested time and resources in establishing leadership initiatives across all of our operations worldwide.

In 2006, we hosted our fourth executive program to provide an opportunity for our most senior leaders (from all areas of the business) to take part in a structured residential learning program. During the year, we also held our first global leadership program for senior managers and it proved a great success. We will host more leadership programs in the next 12 months.

In addition to course content, these events are a valuable way of expanding the networks of participants and extending their ability to lead global teams and widen their influence within the CSL Group. Programs are supported by independent coaching and feedback tools. We have now taken on a pilot internal mentoring initiative whereby participants of our executive program are given the opportunity to mentor people who have attended one of our leadership programs.

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