New Hope Corporation Limited (NHC) Q4 2026 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the New Hope Group FY26 Q4 Quarterly Activities Report and Investor Call. 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 via the phones, you will need to press the star key followed by the number 1 on your telephone keypad. If you wish to ask a question via the webcast, please enter it into the ask a question box and click submit. I would now like to hand the conference over to Rob Bishop, Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our call today. I'm Rob Bishop, Chief Executive Officer of New Hope Group. I'm joined here by Rebecca Rinaldi, our CFO, and Dom O'Brien, our Executive General Manager and Company Secretary. Hopefully you've had a chance to go through the report, but in any case, I'll briefly step you through our key highlights before we open up the lines for Q&A. The July quarter marks the end of the 2026 financial year for the New Hope Group. Operationally, it's been a great year for the group and we are very pleased with our results to date. During the quarter, our TRIFA decreased to 3.89, 12% lower than the previous quarter. However, the high potential event frequency moved up in an unfavourable direction from 1.21 in the previous quarter to 4.65. Critical and fatality and fatal risk management remains a continuing focus for the group. In response to the increase in high potential events and recent serious events across the broader industry, the group has doubled down in terms of focus of the effectiveness of controls for fatal risks. This has included group-wide safety pauses, increased frontline engagement, and targeted review and verification of critical controls. The ...