Search for an email received from DairyNZ Ltd with the subject title ‘Your Workplace 360 report’; the report can be downloaded from this email.

Fonterra suppliers completing this assessment for the Co-operative Difference must complete both sections. There is the opportunity at the end to share the completion status of your assessment directly with Fonterra. No actual results are shared, just the completion status. If you prefer, you can share your report during your assessment.

We strongly recommend you complete Workplace 360 at least one week prior to your Co-operative Difference audit.

For additional information on Fonterra’s Co-operative Difference, visit their webpage below.

At the end of Workplace 360, if you selected that you supply to Fonterra, you are asked if you want to share that you completed the tool with Fonterra. If the answer is ‘yes’ then DairyNZ passes onto Fonterra that Workplace 360 was completed, as well as your name, email address and supply number. No other information is passed on.

It’s best if the person employing and managing the staff completes Workplace360 (i.e. the Farm Owner, Sharemilker or Contract Milker as relevant).

Farm businesses who do not employ staff are still required to manage health and safety on farm. Near the beginning of Workplace 360 you are asked if you have staff or not. If you answer ‘no’ then you automatically receive a shorter version of Workplace 360 which only covers health and safety.

If you have more than one farm, it is recommended (but not required) that you complete a Workplace 360 assessment for each farm to maximise learnings. Especially if farms are being run by contract or sharemilkers as they have responsibility for the people employed, therefore they are best placed to complete Workplace 360.

Generally, no. If you are the business owner and completing Workplace 360 you should know the answers. We encourage you to complete the assessment responsibly and honestly so you get the most from it. It is probable that in the future customers / consumers will want more evidence of the areas Workplace 360 covers.

The intention is to change the questions and examples used within Workplace 360 to encourage continual learning. Workplace 360 will tend to focus on topics which represent the biggest risks and opportunities for farmers alongside growing trends and hot topics.

DairyNZ Limited (DairyNZ) is sharing its Workplace 360 assessment tool with you for your participation.

The purpose of Workplace 360 is to help farmers identify areas for improvement in managing their teams and keeping all people safe on their farm. DairyNZ is committed to protecting the privacy of those individuals who choose to participate in Workplace 360. It is your choice whether you wish to participate.

Your individual responses will be used to generate your own individualised PDF report, as well as for the purpose of creating anonymised aggregated dairy sector level data which will be used by DairyNZ to monitor trends, help inform and strengthen DairyNZ’s advocacy and policy efforts and understand areas of concern and opportunity for improving on-farm workplaces. We do these things on behalf of and for the benefit of all New Zealand dairy farmers.

If you are a Fonterra supplier and completing the Workplace 360 assessment tool for the purpose of the ‘Co-operative Difference’, you can choose to share your completion with Fonterra by selecting the share with Fonterra option within the Workplace 360 assessment tool. By opting into this, you agree for DairyNZ to share your name, email, supply number and that you have completed the tool with Fonterra. DairyNZ will only notify Fonterra on your behalf that you have completed the Workplace 360 assessment tool, noting your individual responses and final PDF report will not themselves be shared with Fonterra. For more information on the Fonterra Co-operative difference, please visit this website.

DairyNZ requests limited demographic information, including the respondent’s name, supply number, supply company, email and type of business ownership. This information enables us to personalise and email your report to you, and where your permission is given, let your dairy company know you have completed the tool. The business type enables DairyNZ to interpret and analyse findings in context.

Your responses to specific questions will be grouped together with those of all the other people who take part in the assessment, so that individual responses cannot be identified.

Your feedback will help DairyNZ improve its services and systems. The results may also be compared with future assessment results to track trends in the New Zealand dairy sector over time. This ongoing comparison will protect your anonymity and will solely focus on the provision of aggregated data in the form of specific group-level insights.

DairyNZ will manage all information obtained in accordance with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020. DairyNZ will not provide information derived from the assessment tool to any other individual, company or government body, except as may be required by New Zealand law.

If you have any questions about the Workplace 360 assessment tool or how the information DairyNZ obtains from the assessment tool will be used, you can contact the DairyNZ Privacy Officer by email.

You have the right to view any personal information about you held by DairyNZ, and to ask that it is corrected it if it is incorrect. To do this, you can also email the DairyNZ Privacy Officer.

The DairyNZ Privacy Officer: privacyofficer@dairynz.co.nz

DairyNZ’s Privacy Policy can be accessed here.