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>> TERRY LOCK: My name is Terry Lock from Gough, Gough & Hamer.
My job is Southern Regional Manager.
Gough Gough & Hamer
are a caterpillar dealer in New Zealand.
We've been in business for
seventy-five years. We're one of the leaders in heavy machinery and transport.
>> DEAN HENEY: I'm the branch manager for
Goughs Cat.
We support the caterpillar equipment in this area. We look after
marine, road transport,
heavy industry,
power generation
and forestry in this area.
I started working with the PPO team in early '06
and we've worked through a number of issues ever since.
It definitely helped us with our business.
We've had a
great
deal of unbiased,
very fair-and-even sort of
judgments from the PPO team, and it's assisted us in
developing policies for running this site.
We had several issues with, or minor issues with, levels of discharge,
and areas in fact that we weren't focusing on, that we were simply unaware of.
So, we've been given some brilliant advice from the PPO team
that has given us direction
with dealing with those issues.
They have had an impact on our business.
None of them have been negative,
but it's allowed us
a much better means of focusing on some of the things that could affect the environment.
We have introduced new systems on this site.
We have more spill kits. We have
abilities to test and check our systems, to make sure that we're not making mistakes,
and we've introduced procedures to try to help
reduce the possibility of contamination to the environment.
I have no issues recommending
any businesses working alongside ECan's
Pollution Prevention Team.
They only bring positives to the business.
>> SUE HILL: The advantage of using the PPG system was that was no initial cost
to Goughs. However, we see the advantage of going through the system is the fact that, with the culture
that we're creating and the awareness that we're creating,
especially through the apprenticeships getting involved from the ground floor, that the benefits
of going through the programme
will be long-term cost reductions and savings.