Our community partnerships are a real feature of the TAP which has allowed one of the largest employers in the region, Saputo Dairy Australia, to host our Year 11 VCAL students and run them through a mini site induction and plant tour. Field Services Manager, Rowan Ault, and Field Services Advisor, Joy Coulson, welcomed the students to the Saputo Australia site at Allansford. Daniel Gardiner summarised the OH&S practises as outlined in Saputo’s FY 2023 Health and Key Safety Objective Plan that included working in confined spaces, manual handling and emergency management. Rob Leadbetter described the continuous improvement procedures in place as an ongoing effort to improve all elements of the Saputo organisation – processes, tools, products, services etc with a goal to get the best return for every litre of milk. Our students were able to observe the bulk cheese manufacturing plant through a viewing window where cheese maker, Steve Billington, explained the highly automated process from milk to blocks of cheese through the cheese producing plant. At the fresh milk manufacturing plant, Christina Cox and Grant Walker from Sungold, showed students the production area where they learnt that over 200,000 litres of milk are bottled in a day with 50-60 different skews of milk in that mix. The VCAL students could observe safety features like chemical showers, eye wash stations, railings and dedicated walkways all around the site and were encouraged to investigate the Saputo website if they were looking for work or experiences in food manufacturing. Comments are closed.
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