Ansell Limited (ANN) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the ANSEL Limited FY24 full year results. All participants are in a listen only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question and answer session. If you wish to ask a question, you will need to press the star key followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Neil Salmon, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good morning to you in Australia. Good morning to people around the world, or good old times a day to people joining from around the world and listening in to our presentation of our fiscal year 24 results. And I thank you for your time and your interest in Ansell. I will begin as usual with our summary of our safety and sustainability highlights. You could move to page five. So overall, this page summarizes a lot of progress And it's also a reminder that the goals we set out under these headlines are challenging. They require a lot of success to get right, and our progress will not always be in a straight line. And so I'm going to begin with a couple examples of this. Firstly, for the first time in many years, we saw a tick up in our recordable injury rate, now measured using the TRIFR metric. Two reasons for that. Firstly, these figures now include the consolidation of what was formerly Care Plus, now Ansell Cerenban. And even though the Ansell teams have done a fantastic job reducing the injury rate at that site to around one-fifth what it was a couple of years ago, it's still higher than the Ansell average. And so consolidating Cerenban increases the overall Ansell average. If I take out that effect, then injuries in the last year were around the same as they were two years before that, but we couldn't sustain wh...