Westpac Banking Corporation · ASX:WBC
Westpac Banking — ESG Presentation (November 2006)
10 slides from Westpac Banking's sustainability presentation, Nov 2, 2006
Slide 1: Westpac cover letter to ASX
Gigestpac Australia’s First Bank Group Secretariat Level 20, 275 Kent Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Telephone: (02) 8253 0390 Facsimile: (02) 8253 1215 2 November 2006 Company Announcements Australian Stock Exchange Limited 20 Bridge Street SYDNEY NSW 2000 Dear Sir / Madam Today Westpac released
Slide 2: Extended Performance Announcement for year ended 30 September 2006
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Slide 3: A message from the CFO
a Managing social, environmental and workplace performance, together with our reputation, steleeholder relationships and cther intangibles, is funclamentalyy linked to long-term shareholder value. Financial accounting cannot fully capture and describe the total value within aur business. It follows
Slide 4: Progress on stakeholder priorities
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Slide 5: Human capital
03 HUMAN CAPITAL Asa services business, employees are key to our sustainability agenda. How we treat and invest in our people feads through to our customers’ experiences, And with an ageing population and growing war for talent, attracting and retaining the best people is fundamental to our tong ter
Slide 6: Customer capital
04 CUSTOMER CAPITAL Customers have always been central to our sustainability agenda because without them we have no business. Wher it comes to money, people want to trust who they do business with. And, if we can attract and retain customers with our ethical and responsibility credentials, it goes s
Slide 7: Social capital
05 SOCIAL CAPITAL Like any business, we're simply part of the communities in which we live and work Westpac has bees part of Australian daily life since 1817, contributing to stronger community, culture and economy. At tha same time, staying close to the communities in which we operate means we bene
Slide 8: Environmental capital
06 ENVIRONMENTAL CAPITAL We want our environmental performance to set us apart. At Westpac we don't view the environment as sore so-called ‘externality’ Managing our environmentai footprint goes straight to the bottom-line, The bigger picture ~ climate change ~ presents some critical risks but also
Slide 9: Supply chain management
07 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT We don’t have factories but we do have 10,000 suppliers. By getting close to our suppliers and choosing therm carefully we can have a major impact on our overall social, ethical and environmental impacts. That also gives us a chance to take both risks and costs out of the
Slide 10: Extended performance scorecard
08 EXTENDED Strategic Objectives: PERFORMANCE + Improve employee attraction; SCORECARD’ + Improve retention ang commitment; and + Reduce workplace costs Indicator Employee turnover (toral) Employee commitment (% employees reporting positive score} Lost Time injury Frequency Rete (Injuries per one mi