Health and safety when working with us
Your responsibilities
Under New Zealand’s Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, both Council and contractors have a shared responsibility to keep people safe. This includes:
- your workers
- our staff
- members of the public.
We all need to work together to manage risks and make sure everyone stays safe.
What we expect
We want to work with contractors who:
- take health and safety seriously
- are open to working with us to manage risks
- keep improving their health and safety practices.
We won’t tolerate any unreasonable behaviour towards our staff or contractors. If you experience this on a Council site, please report it. Likewise, we expect contractors to treat our staff respectfully.
Health and safety requirements
If you’re doing physical work or work with higher health and safety risks, you’ll need to be:
- accredited by SiteWise with a Green status or better, or
- accredited by another approved health and safety system.
SiteWise is our preferred system. It helps us assess your health and safety practices and gives us confidence in your ability to manage risks.
Before starting work, you must:
- discuss and document how risks will be managed
- create a site-specific safety plan for high-risk work
- report any incidents or issues during the job
- cooperate with any health and safety audits we carry out.
Ongoing Partnership
We’re looking for long-term relationships with contractors who want to work with us to keep improving health and safety. That means staying in touch, sharing ideas, and working together to manage risks.
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