Boral Timber achieved Australian Forestry Standard Chain of Custody certification for the Hardwood and Softwood businesses
which complements the existing certification for Plywood. This is a significant milestone for the Timber division in strengthening the
future of sustainably managed forests and wood products. Chain of Custody certification demonstrates traceability of products from
sustainable and legal forestry through to end-users.
Boral’s Timber Division continues to improve its safety performance through strengthening HS&E leadership, expansion of the Safe Mate
program to align with the Boral Best Practice elements, and implementation of employee health and well-being initiatives.
| |
Our performance |
Our goals/plans |
Health
and safety |
- Recordable injury frequency rate (RIFR) down 15%, due largely to improved manual handling. Employee LTIFR of 5.8 compares with target of 4.7. Percentage hours lost of 0.10 down 23%, which is better than target, indicating reduced severity of injuries.
- Contractor LTIFR of 4.1 was better than last year and target of 5.4.
- Implemented successful lifestyle, Battle of the Bulge (BoB) employee challenge; participating employees lost 628kg of body weight.
|
25% improvement on last three year average LTIFR and % hours lost.
- Deploy additional safety KPIs and objectives further down into the business.
- Implement targeted improvement strategies for energy isolation and task based risk assessment.
- Further evolve manual handling initiatives.
- Expand BoB challenge to other Boral divisions.
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
Our performance |
Our goals/plans |
Energy conservation
and climate change |
- GHG emissions remained steady year on year due to increased reporting scope. On a comparative basis, GHG emissions were down 5% on FY2008, reflecting lower production volumes.
- Plywood completed a stage one energy review highlighting energy usage and cost trends/savings.
|
Reduce emissions per unit and offset Boral’s increases in absolute emissions as a result of market demand growth.
- Continue to develop plantation strategy and review costs/benefits of small-scale cogeneration in light of the CPRS.
- Carry out a stage two energy audit for Plywood, with a goal to reduce electricity by 10%.
|
 |
Water conservation, extraction
and protection |
- HPP has reduced mains water use by 37% since 2007 (versus target of 20%) through improvements and repairs, and use of recycled water.
- Hardwood mains water use down 16% on FY2008 largely due to kiln "wet bulbs" project and lower production volumes.
- Plywood achieved a 15% reduction in mains water consumption since 2005 due mainly to improvements and repairs.
|
Reduce mains water consumption across the division.
- Further develop Plywood water saving programs to achieve an overall 25% reduction in mains water use on 2005 levels.
- Explore options to use third party recycled water at HPP with Oberon Council.
|
 |
Waste and resource management, recycling and
re-use |
- Waste produced down 5% due to lower production.
- Timber residue streams provided biomass fuels to large scale cogeneration facilities on the far north coast of NSW.
- ~260,000 tonnes of our own and external timber residues used in paper production, biomass fuels, landscaping and animal husbandry.
- Trialled new scanning technologies to improve recoveries and grade yield at Kyogle.
|
Improve conversion of timber resource to value-added timber product.
- Identify opportunities to convert further waste residues to biomass for energy production.
- Develop business case for investing in scanning technology in Hardwood to improve recoveries.
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
Our performance |
Our goals/plans |
| Marketplace and supply chain |
| Sales and marketing |
- Australian Forestry Standard Chain of Custody certification (AS4707-2006) for Hardwood, Plywood and Softwood businesses.
- Through targeted communications, Boral Timber increased customer/specifier awareness of the benefits of Chain of Custody certification.
- Worked with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry to develop guidelines to prevent illegally logged imports.
|
Use Boral’s supply chain to deliver improved sustainability outcomes.
- Maintain AFS accreditation across all timber product range.
- Participate in industry LCI/LCA development programs.
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
Our performance |
Our goals/plans |
| Community relations and engagement |
- Site visits by ~100 school, TAFE and medical students from UNSW Rural Health program.
- Continued support for local shows, schools and regional events, including Dungog Film Festival.
- Indigenous employees and family members participated in Boral’s inaugural Bangarra Dance Theatre family day.
- Temporary closure of Walcha mill was an issue of concern for local community in FY2009.
|
Contribute positively to regional communities.
- Conduct formal community engagement and risk assessment at key sites.
- Participate in local Conservation Volunteers Australia projects.
- Through HPP, participate in NSW Correctional Services Work Release Program at Oberon.
|
 |
About Timber
Boral Timber incorporates Hardwood, Softwood and Plywood operations. The softwood manufacturing operations are 50% owned by Boral through the Highland Pine Products
(HPP) joint venture; HPP is managed by a separate joint venture board. Boral Timber reports data for 100% Boral owned businesses. HPP’s equity share of GHG emissions
data is reported as part of Boral’s overall equity share of joint venture data (Scope 3 emissions) on page s19.
The division has 17 operating sites and five distribution sites under Boral management and approximately 680 employees in Australia.
