Health & Safety

CRL Ltd aspires to health and safety (H&S) excellence in everything we do. This is an ambitious and challenging goal, and one which requires continued effort and focus from everyone involved.

CRL Ltd and Link Alliance's Health and Safety Strategy 2022-24 sets out our vision 'Mahia te mahi, hei painga hei oranga mo tātou katoa (to do the work for the good of everyone'). Four strategic priorities have been identified to achieve this vision:

• Partner to ensure and drive continuous H&S improvement

• Build and maintain workforce resilience

• Develop and enhance safety leadership capacity and supervisory competence throughout the workforce

• Enhance the maturity and effectiveness of the H&S management system. Our approach to H&S management encompassed programmes of work under each of these strategic priorities. We work closely with construction delivery partners and industry stakeholders to ensure a strong H&S culture and framework is implemented across all areas of the project.

Link Alliance is the main construction partner for CRL Ltd and its first objective is to ‘achieve industry-leading standards for health, safety and wellbeing’.

Link Alliance continues to invest in training their teams, including over 75 staff completing the Frontline Safety Leadership Programme, the largest ever rollout of the ‘Alive on Site’ behavioural safety initiative, and a health monitoring programme.

The focus has been on ensuring all teams have the correct competencies to manage their works safely above and below ground. This is vitally important to manage critical risks on site: work at heights, confined space, incident reporting and working in a tunnel environment.

CRL Ltd continued to monitor and support the delivery of safety excellence across the project through site visits, engagement with workers and frontline supervisors and highlighting and recognising both good and poor practice where it is seen. CRL Ltd is grateful to its construction partners for their commitment to achieving the shared health and safety goals.