We all consider best practice, sustainability and environmental practices, to be an essential part of our market leadership. See enclosed link.

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It’s our commitment to make the right decisions and to take the right actions to improve the social and environmental well-being of our people, our customers and the communities where we live and work.
Suppose it’s that fine balance between bottom line of people, planet, and protecting the safety, health, and welfare of their most vital resource: workers.
Blue Skies has 3 core pillars: Environment, People, Community
Environment
Blue Star’s environmental management systems form a vital part of our market leading production facilities, and have done for a long time. In 2006 we led significant changes in the way paper was sourced responsibly in New Zealand, helping to cut this market’s ties to a number of unsustainable paper mills overseas.
People

Investing in our people is a critical part of Blue Skies. We have a number of programmes aimed at improving the diversity of our staff, further developing skills and qualifications and sourcing talented graduates and apprentices. We work with Competenz for ongoing development of our production staff and have invested heavily in sales and sales leadership programs for our client facing staff. With the implementation of new technology and service offerings a key piece is the ongoing retraining and upskilling of our existing teams.
The strength of our development and training programmes is reflected in the longevity of our staff – over half of our people have been with us for more than five years and one in six has worked for us for more than twelve years.
•    WorkSafe New Zealand site audits
•    Annual employee wellbeing checks
•    EAP counselling services for employees in need
•    Annual influenza immunisations
•    Employee satisfaction surveys
•    Employee involvement in annual charity fundraisers

A sustainable workplace established the goal of balancing the planet, people, and profit to produce success and viability in the long-term. What this means is a business will be regarded as unsustainable if it fails to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of their most cherished asset-employees.

Community

Our Blue Skies community involvement programme has a simple goal – to give back to the communities in which we live and work. Whether that’s through supporting our local sporting teams, charities, schools or community organisations, we believe they are all equally important in keeping our local communities and our country vibrant.
Building relationships across sectors is key to our success. These include Government agencies as well as Pacific Trade Groups, Business Forums.  
Blue Star has a proud history of supporting not-for-profit organisations. Our key areas of support are in health, education, sports and the arts.
•    Paralympics New Zealand
•    Auckland Medical Research Foundation
•    Variety – the Children’s Charity
•    Innovative Young Minds
•    Comfy Youth Mental Health Initiative
•    Rotary International - Polio Eradication
•    Arts Foundation
•    Auckland Down Syndrome Association
•    Design Assembly NZ
•    New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards
•    The Art Deco Trust
•    Cranford Hospice via The Hawkes Bay Wine Auction
•    Tremain`s Triathlon
•    Lowe Walker Rescue Helicopter
•    Sport Hawkes Bay
•    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
•    Canterbury Rugby Football Union
•    Christchurch City Mission
•    Ronald McDonald House South Island
•    Child Cancer Foundation
•    Broad-ly Speaking, Hard-ly Speaking Christchurch
Invitation?
We would love to partner with your company should our ethos resonate with you. Like minded businesses go further together when reaching across cultures and geographical borders. Blue Star specialises primarily in print and cross channel marketing. Partner services such as Logistics, IT Development, Content Creation are some that come to mind so if you are keen lets commence the dialogue?