Daryl and Brett after their win

The brothers were the first to cross the finish line at Riverside Gardens, completing the distance in 8 hours, 20 minutes and 18 seconds - two minutes clear of their closest rivals, Ashley Nesbit (from Perth) and Marcus Brockhurst.

Not only did we enjoy the 1st place status but we also enjoyed 2nd too. Ashley Nesbit, who took second place, represented Thiess Kentz. In June this year, Thiess Kentz sponsored Ashley at the ARB Surf Ski World Cup held in South Africa.

The Multiplex Avon Descent is Western Australia's own unique sporting event that attracts competitors and spectators from throughout Australia and overseas. Competitors challenge the Avon and Swan Rivers in a variety of paddle and power craft in an exciting two-day time trial over 134 gruelling kilometres.

July 23th and 24th, 2007 saw Kentz Mentor training take place at Kentz Midrand headquarters in South Africa, with participants travelling across the region. The two-day training workshop marked the formalisation of the mentoring process in the region, introducing group-wide processes.

The first day was for mentors only and focused on the mentoring role in Kentz, assessing and monitoring mentee progress, identifying and resolving mentee issues, reports, tracking and company interfaces. The “mentee” is the person being mentored, in Kentz normally a newly-qualified graduate or junior trades person.

The second day saw mentors meet with mentees and work through issues one-on-one and in groups. An initial presentation focused on career development within Kentz, and the final session of the day concentrated on embedding the mentoring process in the region.

The mentees were able to present issues and suggested actions to Eoin Hurley, Regional Managing Director, and Takis Karallis, Group HR Director. The event was organised and administered by Hayley Barker (Human Resources Manager) and her team. In all, 36 people completed the training.

Bill Hawes celebrated ten years of marriage to his wife Erna on 4th July this year. Bill is the S.A. Kent Construction Manager on the SIPChem JAC Port Project in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Bill and Erna celebrated their wedding anniversary by re-taking their wedding vows at the Graceland's Chapel in Las Vegas. Bill and Erna had a wonderful day and would like to share it with the rest of the Kentz family. Bill is a British national and his wife Erna is from South Africa, and they have a beautiful home on the Durban South Coast, South Africa.

Above: Bill and Erna with 'Elvis' Right: Celebrating 10 years of marriage

L to R: Maloji S. Bhosale, Thomas I, Chandramohan, Patrick Leahy, Sukh L Shresth, Anas Alali, Chitnis P M, K Chandra Mouli, Azad Ali, Mike Cooper, Navaz M, Bob Worton, Selvam V.

Kentz primary objective: "Zero Accidents Around the World".

In extension of the efforts to achieve Kentz primary objective; UTS Kent hosted "Supply Chain Partners and Sub-contractors HSE Meeting" on Sunday, August 12th 2007. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Patrick Leahy, Country Manager, UTS Kent, Abu Dhabi.

Management representatives from seven companies attended this meeting. It was a great success with the participation of senior management personnel i.e. General Managers, Project Managers, HSE Managers, Project Co-ordinators, Engineers from the supply chain partners and sub-contractor companies.

The purpose of the meeting was to communicate HSE management system implemented by Kentz on all projects and expectations for improving HSE performance while working with supply chain, partners and sub-contractors, and this was achieved by the informative presentation by Mr. Thomas Iype, QA/QC Manager, and a simultaneous discussion by all attendees.

The second half of the meeting was utilised for presentation of combined i.e. UTS Kent and Supply Chain Partners, Sub-contractors near-miss trends. Mr. Maloji S. Bhosale, HSE Manager, UTS Kent presented trend analysis to the forum. He also explained the best practices performed by UTS Kent to ensure corrective and preventive actions on leading indicators.

Special thanks to Mr. Patrick Leahy for his support in making this event successful.

Overall it was a very participative meeting with open and transparent discussion to improve the HSE performance collectively.

Hein Oelofse
Congratulations to Gerda and Jacques Oelofse on the birth of their son Hein. The new arrival was born at 8.18am on 16th August 2007. He weighed in at 3.26kg and at a height of 48cm. Jacques is a Senior Mechanical Proposals Engineer for the Projects Division of Kentz South Africa.

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