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Smadeof ® Benedictsand & Gravel BENEDICT INDUSTRIES BENEDICT SAND & GRAVEL BENEDICT RECYCLING ® WHAT SYDNEY’S MADE OF® WHAT SYDNEY’S MADE OF BENEDICT SAND & GRAVEL DELIVERING TO THE GREATER SYDNEY REGION & NSW COUNTRY BENEDICT SANDS MENANGLE BENEDICT SANDS SANDY POINT BENEDICT SANDS MITTAGONG PROFILE APPIN SANDS COMPANY APPIN COWRA QUARTZ COWRA BENEDICT RECYCLING PTY LTD CHIPPING NORTON / BELROSE / NEWCASTLE / WOLLONGONG/ GIRRAWEEN. COMING SOON: SMEATON GRANGE MAJOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS GEORGES COVE VILLAGE & MARINA at Moorebank THE CREAMERY at Menangle The Benedict Industries group of companies is In 1978 the Company expanded into mining, Since 1991, Benedict has: a Sydney-based, family owned and managed acquiring a large sand resource at Chipping - acquired Menangle Sand & Soil Pty Ltd Quarrying, Resources and Recycling Company. Norton (which it extracted until 1999) before embarking on a course of expanding its - acquired Warringah Gravel & Stone Supplies Established in 1966, Benedict grew from a resource base that continues today. - established Benedict Recycling Pty Ltd Haulage Contractor to one of the largest - acquired Mittagong Quarry resellers of quarried materials in NSW and The Company continues to acquire and with facilities in Chipping Norton, Belrose, develop new deposits for extraction - acquired Cowra Quartz Quarry Newcastle and Wollongong, Benedict is throughout the Sydney region and supplies a - established Appin Sands increasing its market share in the Waste and comprehensive range of Sands, Soils, (50/50 Joint Venture with Pacsons Quarries) Recycling industry too. Sandstone, Decorative Aggregates and acquired Sandy Point Quarry (near Liverpool) Recycled products. - - established Capital Recycling Solutions (Canberra) Revised 281/2016 BENEDICT RECYCLING - Chipping Norton HEAD OFFICE - Belrose COMPANY PROFILE Benedict Sand & Gravel sandstone products including Washed Benedict Recycling Major wholesaler / reseller of quarried, Concrete and Construction Sands, Armour The main recycling facility is located at recycled and landscaping products from rock, gabion spalls, landscaping rocks and Riverside Road, Chipping Norton. both Company owned and external pebbles as well as a range of crushed This resource recovery and waste quarries, with an in-house distribution and products. It will play an increasingly critical management facility commenced delivery network, delivering to the greater part in construction sand supply given its operation in March 2008. Sydney Region and NSW Country. centrality to the Sydney market. Feedstocks such as construction and Benedict Sands – Menangle Benedict Sands - Mittagong demolition materials, commercial and Sand and Soil extraction and processing. This quarry produces concrete, asphalt, industrial wastes as well as residues from Sydney’s largest supplier of soils, special construction and brick sands for the other recycling facilities are sorted and golf course and bowling green blends, Southern Highlands, South Coast and recycled. We are currently investigating garden mixes and specialised sands. Southern Metropolitan Sydney. Acquired in a range of innovative processes that will Controls more than 70% of Sydney’s December 2000, this Benedict Quarry has permit us to recycle problematic, currently approved topsoil reserves. 25 years worth of remaining resources. landfilled wastes such as tyres, plastics, engineered timber, and quarantine waste. Benedict Sands – Belrose Appin Sands – Appin This Sandstone quarry has operated since This joint venture with Pacsons Quarries Benedict Recycling has locations at: 1966. Products include; sandstone products, produces washed sands, brickie sands, soil • Belrose screened sands, recycled aggregates, road blends and sandstone aggregates, and has • Chipping Norton bases, soils and garden mixes. And 20 years worth of remaining reserves. • Girraween additionally it serves as a construction and • Newcastle demolition waste Recycling Facility. Benedict Sands – Cowra Quartz • Wollongong This Quarry produces high quality decorative • Smeaton Grange (Coming Soon) Benedict Sands – Sandy Point white and gold quartz pebble as well as This sandstone deposit has vast reserves. coarse and fine washed sands. Available products include a range of QUALITY CONTROL - Benedict Laboratories Benedict has adopted a company-wide Along with this, our objective is to use the Quality approach to all of the company’s company’s Quality Management System operations. The basis for which is the to assist in achieving and exceeding our AS/NZS ISO9001 (2000) Quality business goals and objectives. Management System that introduces new customer satisfaction and end product Commitment to our policy and objectives conformity objectives to preceding is maintained by conducting training of Australian Standards. all staff in regard to this policy and its subsequent Quality Manual, conducting Our Quality objective is to consistently reviews, internal audits, and other training supply our customers a quality of service and activities such as correction or QUALITY and product that meets or exceeds their prevention of non-conformities. needs and expectations. Quality, and thus customer satisfaction, is We believe this is realistic and achievable our focus. and have adopted the approach of ‘doing the job right every time and on time’. FLOYDE GILBERT We aim to provide reliable technical and QA MANAGER sales support services, with a focus on the production and delivery of quality quarry and landscape products to our customers. It’s SAFETY FIRST at all Benedict Sites OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY We are committed to providing the safest - Work to eliminate hazards and practices - Ensure that it has management systems possible working environment to all persons that could cause incidents, injuries and to effectively identify, control and monitor entering our sites - whether they are illnesses; safety risks arising from its operations; employees, contractors, customers or visitors. Benedict promotes a culture where - Communicate openly with government, In order to uphold this policy, the Company is workplace injuries are considered and the community on safety issues, and committed to developing, implementing, preventable. All of our people share the contribute to the development of policies, maintaining, and updating safe work practices responsibility for implementing this policy - legislation and regulations that may affect through regular consultation with employees working together towards a safer workplace. Benedict Operations; from all levels within the Company, as well as from external sources. It is fundamental that Benedict Policy Objectives - Involve and consult with all people this policy, and the associated safety - Provide and maintain a safe and healthy who work for the Company on Health procedures, can be opened for review, workplace, safe plant and equipment and and Safety issues; improvement and clarification at any time. safe systems of work so far as practicable; - Clearly define OH&S responsibilities for We want our people to go home at day’s end - Provide the necessary resources, Managers, Employees and Contractors; safely and uninjured. information, instruction and training to enable effective implementation of this - Ensure that employees and suppliers of policy; goods and services are informed about E.A. DUPERE this policy and made aware of their DIRECTOR - Allocate Company resources to meet OH&S responsibilities in relation to the commitments of the Policy; Benedict business; WORKPLACE REHABILITATION Benedict Industries and its related companies is committed to workplace rehabilitation as a strategy to support the return to work of injured or ill workers as soon as possible. Workplace rehabilitation assists the healing process and provides the best opportunity for an early restoration of an employee’s pre-injury or illness function. We will achieve this by: - Prevention of injury and illness by providing a safe and healthy working environment: - Maintaining and implementing appropriate rehabilitation and return to work procedures: - Ensuring managers, supervisors, employees and contractors are appropriately trained and informed of their rights and responsibilities under this policy; - Complying with all applicable acts and regulations relating to workers’ compensation and rehabilitation; - Ensuring rehabilitation commences as soon as possible following an injury or illness in a manner consistent with medical advice; - Providing suitable transitional duties where practicable, for an injured or ill worker, as an integral part of the injury management / return to work process; - Consulting with all stakeholders to ensure the rehabilitation process operates smoothly and effectively; - The development and implementation of applicable injury management programs and plans for injured or ill workers, in line with regulatory requirements. DANA DUPERE DIRECTOR LEAVING THE LAND IN BETTER SHAPE THAN WHEN WE FOUND IT BENEDICT REHABILITATED SITE - Heron Park ENVIRONMENTAL It is Benedict policy to achieve a Benedict is committed to: - Ensure that its employees and high standard of environmental care in suppliers of goods and services are conducting its business as a Resources, - Comply with all applicable laws, informed about this policy and aware Recycling and Quarried Products supply regulations and standards; uphold the of their environmental responsibilities company contributing to society’s spirit of the law; and where laws do in relation to the Benedict business; material needs. not adequately protect the
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