AUCKLAND CENTRAL INTERCEPTOR | SAFETY
Above: Covid testing at CI site in Nov 2021
At the two-day induction all attendees are provided
with a full set of PPE: shirts; trousers; boots; hat; gloves; safety glasses; fleece; and, raincoat. Task-specific PPE is also provided where required. This is not unusual for projects in other countries, but it is highly unusual for New Zealand. Not only that, but PPE is given to subcontractors
who are encouraged to take it with them when they leave the project. The strategy for subbies was to give them high-quality PPE so they could go back to their parent organisations wearing it. Invariably the smaller contractors wouldn’t provide such gear and turning up for work on a cold Monday morning wearing hi-vis trousers and a nice warm hi-vis fleece would obviously be a talking point. Providing good PPE to everyone working on the project is one thing, trying to bring about change, even surreptitiously on a small scale, in the supply chain is another.
SITE SET-UP Well laid out site welfare facilities are also a differentiator. Clean and well-appointed drying rooms, hygienic lunchrooms/areas, pre-start briefing areas - which in many locations are heated - and designated traffic and pedestrian routes are the norm. A laundry service, delivered as a Māori-owned business, is also provided for dirty PPE. These are things that many readers will expect as
standard on a major project, however they are anything but in New Zealand. For workers this is something different for them, it helps them realise that the Central Interceptor project is serious when it comes to their safety and welfare. A special note on coffee machines: the WSL CI Project
Director, on visiting the GAJV head office (after having just come from a nightime site visit), observed a state-of-the-art coffee machine in the kitchen. What
Above: PPE on CI project January 2025 | 25
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