We all have a role to play in delivering a safe and healthy workplace. Our safety systems and Critical Risk Protocols make sure we’re all focused on the same shared priorities. But the safety challenges and risks we face vary depending on what we do and where we work.
Meet some people from across our business who share their insights about safety.
PAUL HILMAN
Incident Responder, GMS QLD
Safety is a way of life at home and at work. It starts with being in an environment that makes you feel competent and confident to do your job.
Darren and I are Motorcycle Traffic Response Unit riders – we’re well trained and have a lot of experience. We have high performance motorcycles and the best protective clothing and equipment on the market.
We know our procedures are proven and we feel comfortable that extensive risk assessments have been carried out. Even with all that taken care of, we still treat every ride with caution as we assist road users and make them feel safer.
Amanda Gray
AMANDA GRAY
SHEQ Advisor, NBN Business Unit NSW
Helping to ensure our people go home safely at the end of the day is what I do.
This means providing safety training and education and increasing awareness of health and safety requirements, processes and procedures, so our workers are equipped to make safe decisions on site.
Having and applying this knowledge can prove to be the difference between getting home safely or not getting home at all.
DAVE TAYLOR
Crew Leader, Pilbara WA
For me safety is about looking after my team – and making sure they are all good. I have quite a few young local guys under my care and it is important they are all in the right frame of mind to do their work safely without distractions.
This is especially true for us here in the Pilbara where we have such high volumes of heavy vehicles and a lot of our work is in remote locations or carried out in isolation.
Dave Taylor
Kimi Upu
KIMI UPU
Senior SHEQ Advisor, RAMC – VBAJV QLD
Safety is behaviour. Safety is choices. Safety is culture. It’s about identifying what’s important in life and understanding the impact being seriously injured in the workplace might have.
To me, a safe culture starts at the top and phrases like ‘actions speak louder than words’, ‘leading from the front’, ‘talking the talk’ and ‘walking the walk’ should be spoken and demonstrated daily. When we make a considered effort to put ‘safety and health above all else’ and align it to how we think, behave and talk, we start to create a positive long-lasting ripple effect.
Safety is a journey – starting with yourself, and then the next person, and the next.
KRISYNDA REALE
Delron Contract Manager, WA
With a constantly changing workplace environment, wehave to work hard to find the hazards before they find us.
We also need to be open to changing the way we do things and accepting of new procedures.
Many of the Delron cleaning crews work at sites where their environment can be hazardous. Safety is empowering each of my co-workers to stop when they feel unsafe or unsure and to seek out help. The safety and wellbeing of my team is incredibly important to me.
Krisynda Reale
Matt Tingey
MATT TINGEY
Electrician, Visionstream VIC
One of the most important parts of my role is staying up-to-date and across the safety requirements for the work that I do and implementing those.
We work to the Critical Risk Protocols which help keep us and everyone else safe — but you’ve always got to be on your toes respecting the dangers and safety requirements of every task.
I’ve got a young family and that’s my best reason to stay safe.
MIKE PERCIVAL
T&D Operations Manager, QLD
To me, safety is about taking ownership and showing initiative, finding ways to do things differently to be safer in our work.
The Pinkenba QLD T&D team are good at speaking up and looking for improvements to how we can work safely. For example, we had our forklifts fitted with safety zone lights to make it easier for the operator and the ground workers to be clear on the location of the forklift in operation.
This helps maintain a safety exclusion zone around mobile plant. Ideas like this are about watching out for each other.
Mike Percival
Adam Fletcher
ADAM FLETCHER
Project Manager, Barangaroo NSW
Safety is about looking after everyone around you, leading by example and always doing what we say we’re going to do. It’s about not walking by when we see something that doesn’t look right – but being comfortable to speak up.
When someone goes out of their way to point out something potentially unsafe about the work you are doing, we should actually make an effort to thank them.
SANDRA MCFARLAND
SHEQ Trainer, New Zealand
Work plays such a large role in our lives. For me, safety means that at the end of each day, we return home to our whanau (family) in the same state as when we left.
As a member of the SHEQ team, helping make our workplace safe is what I do. We all know compliance with safety procedures and processes can be challenging, but I believe meeting legislation, standards and regulatory requirements is all about keeping safe.
Sandra McFarland
