Cleanaway Waste Management Limited (CWY) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the CleanAway 1H FY26 results briefing. 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 Mark Shupert, Managing Director and CEO. Please go ahead. Good morning and welcome to everyone listening in today. Thank you for joining CleanAway's financial results briefing for the first half of the 2026 financial year. I'm Mark Schubert and I'm joined by Paul Binfield, CleanAway's CFO, and Richie Farrell, General Manager of Investor Relations and Sustainability. Following the presentation as usual, we will open the call for questions. So moving to slide seven. I want to begin today by addressing health and safety. This is foundational to who we are and what we do at CleanAway. Regretfully, we reported two fatal incidents at sites that we owned in the first half of FY26. Each occurred in different operational contexts, and in the case of MRL, it happened when a commercial customer was struck by one of their colleague's vehicles in a park-up area. We remain committed to learning from these tragic incidents and ensuring we have strong controls in place at our sites so that everyone goes home unharmed each day. I am pleased to report that we are seeing significant improvements in our safety performance. When compared to the first half of FY25, Our serious injury frequency rate was 64% lower at 0.36, and our total recordable injury frequency rate was 35% lower at 3.5. And we know that our TRIPA is significantly below domestic comparable companies and international industry peers. A board-commissioned independent safety review has been completed over the last three months. There were four key findings from the review. Firstl...