Support and embed safer working behaviours

During 2022, Link Alliance developed and implemented a revised project induction safety training module which is delivered to all workers inducted onto the CRL project.

The training course, entitled ‘Mata Whānui ti Tirohanga – to look beyond’, describes the five H&S Principles to keep our worksites safe:

• We all take responsibility for safety

• We make sure we understand the plan

• If the work changes, we stop, regroup, and make a new plan

• We look out for ourselves and each other, and stop any work that is unsafe

• We are always fit for work and free from drugs and alcohol.

The project H&S representatives were central to the work to design these H&S Principles and to create a training course with impact, relevance and meaning for those working on site. This training intervention was shortlisted in the National Safeguard H&S Awards under the ‘worker engagement’ category for the leading role the H&S representatives had in its design.

The principles have been further embedded on the project through recognition of workers commitment to the principles through weekly safety awards and an annual H&S Champion Award at each site.