Policy Documents

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At Ntek Biomed Australia Pty Ltd, we provide maintenance solution for assistive, biomedical and rehabilitation equipment. We work to achieve the purpose of building trust among our stakeholders and to solve technical problems for our customers. Every day, we come together to make this happen, and whether we are working with Ntek Biomed people or others, we depend on each other to be mindful of our ethical responsibilities.

 Ø  We believe it’s our responsibility to respect and uphold the human rights of our people and any other individuals we are in contact with, either directly or indirectly.

 Ø  When we say “we”, “our” or “us” we are referring to all of us at Ntek Biomed Australia Pty, individual partners and staff. Where appropriate, we also encourage our stakeholders to comply with this statement.

 Ø  With regard to our key stakeholder groups, we specifically commit to provide development opportunities and ensure continual learning; to foster workplace flexibility and work/life balance; to provide fair wages and benefits; to protect the health and safety of our people at work; to provide a secure working environment. 

 Ø   In addition, we are also obligated not to tolerate forced, bonded or involuntary labour or child labour. We are also sincere regarding not tolerating harassment or discrimination in our working environment.

 Ø  We are committed to avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through our own activities, and addressing such impacts if they do occur in a timely and appropriate manner.

 Ø  We work to guard against complicity in human rights abuses, comply with applicable labor and employment laws of Australia in how we do business. We also ensure to integrate our approach to human rights into our existing business practices.

 Ø  We provide for or cooperate for remediation through legitimate processes, if there are any occurrences of adverse human rights impacts within the organization.

 Ø  We are prepared to walk away from clients and engagements where our integrity could be called into question if we continued.

 Ø  If our business activities are suspected of contributing to any kind of human rights violations, we are committed to be investigated, addressed and respond to the concerns raised and will take appropriate action in response to any violation.

At the End, we actively circulate this statement among our employees and use it as a basis to engage internal and external stakeholders including suppliers and customers on human rights issues, accordingly.

Ntek Biomed Australia Pty Limited is committed to ensure a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, Ntek Biomed expects that all relationships among persons in the office will be business-like and free of explicit bias, prejudice and harassment.

Ø Equal employment opportunity: At Ntek Biomed, we ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We try our best to prohibit any such discrimination or harassment.

Ø Retaliation: We encourage reporting of all perceived incidents of discrimination or harassment. It is the policy of our organization, to promptly and thoroughly investigate such reports. We prohibit retaliation against any individual who reports discrimination or harassment or participates in an investigation of such reports.

Ø Sexual harassment: Sexual harassment constitutes discrimination and is illegal under federal, state and local laws. For the purposes of this policy, “sexual harassment” is defined, as in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Guidelines, as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. At Ntek Biomed, we take this issue seriously and any sort of complaints from any stakeholders are handled delicately with proper investigation and action.

Ø Harassment: Under this policy, harassment can be verbal, written or physical conduct that shows hostility or aversion toward an individual because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Harassing conduct includes epithets, slurs or negative stereotyping; threatening, intimidating or hostile acts; denigrating jokes; and written or graphic material that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual or group that is placed on walls or elsewhere on the employer’s premises or circulated in the workplace, on company time or using company equipment by e-mail, phone (including voice messages), text messages, social networking sites or other means. This type of action will have immediate termination if proven and will not be encouraged in any form.

Ø Individuals and Conduct Covered: These policies apply to all participants and employees, whether related to conduct engaged in by fellow employees or by someone not directly connected to Ntek Biomed like an outside vendor, consultant or customer. Conduct prohibited by these policies is unacceptable in the workplace and in any work-related setting outside the workplace, such as during business trips, customer meeting, business meetings and business-related social events.

Ntek Biomed recognizes that a diverse workforce is a competitive advantage and that the ultimate success is the result of the quality and skills of its people. This Diversity Policy is designed to support the organization’s commitment to diversity.

Diversity encompasses, among a range of matters, gender diversity, age, disability, ethnicity, marital or family status, religious or cultural background, sexual orientation and gender identity. Embracing diversity contributes to the Company achieving its corporate objectives and enhances its reputation and enables the Company to recruit the right people from a diverse pool of talented candidates; create an inclusive workplace culture that embraces diversity; and to better represent the diversity of all of the stakeholders.

We follow certain diversity strategies at Ntek Biomed, which includes:

Ø We promote and maintain a work environment that values and utilizes the contributions of employees with diverse backgrounds, experience and perspectives through improved awareness of the benefits of workplace diversity and human resources policies.

Ø We take steps to attract, retain and motivate well qualified employees from a diverse pool of candidates in our recruitment process, as well as employee retention process.

Ø We take specific factors to take account in recruitment and selection processes to encourage diversity by ensuring that applicants and employees of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply for, and have fair opportunity to be considered for all available roles.

Ø We recognize that employees may have domestic responsibilities and providing workplace flexibility that will assist them to meet those responsibilities.

Ø We are developing and implementing mentoring programs and targeted training and development. Our goal is to build a workforce that is provided with opportunities to develop skill and experience for career advancement, learning and development.

Ø We are committed to comply with equal opportunity and anti-discrimination legislation.