Alliance group chief executive David Surveyor said the plant’s current frozen product warehouse operation was over 30 years old. “The Warehouse Management System will improve the health and safety of our people, enable the co-operative to further unlock advantages of scale and lift the efficiency and competitiveness of the plant. “Approximately 66 people are required to work in the operation during peak processing and manual handling of the fresh product. With each box weighing around 22kgs, this poses a risk of muscular skeletal injury to employees.’’ He said the new system would result in greater efficiencies and improved handling of cartons and product.
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We acknowledge the support and certainty the Government provided to help us keep many of our people in jobs.” Alliance has retained $1.9m for the Leave Support Scheme payment to employees that were required to self-isolate or were unable to work, Taggart said. Alliance has plants in Lorneville, Dannevirke, Levin, Mataura, Nelson, Pukeuri and Timaru. Earlier in the week, The Warehouse Group announced it too will pay the wage subsidy it received. Sales in the first quarter of the new financial year for the Warehouse Group increased by 6.3 per cent and now stand up 6.6 per cent year to date compared ot the same period last year.
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Police were called to the Alliance Group Lorneville Plant after a staffer bought an air pistol to work.
A staff member at the Alliance Group meat works at Lorneville took an air pistol to work “to show it to colleagues” before a manager called police, chief executive David Surveyor says. Police were called to the plant about 3pm on Saturday. Surveyor said the person was foolish and unwise” to bring the air pistol to work. No one was threatened and there was no ammunition, he said.
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