100 Days of Safety

AustStab Awards of Excellence 2014AustStab Awards of Excellence 2014

FK Gardner & Sons GroupOccupational Health and SafetyBest solution to an identified workplace health and safety issue

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Overview

$70m Gore Highway reconstruction for DTMR

Campaign targeted the workforce’s attitudes to safety

Changed the culture of the team long-term

Messages: STOP – THINK – PLAN – GO

Pre and post surveys monitored progress.

Innovation and challenges

High risk project with live traffic and no side tracking

Creation of 1.2m “Danger Zone” kept personnel away from travel path

Pilot vehicles escorted traffic at 40km/h

Remotely operated traffic signals protected workforce from stray vehicles.

DANGER ZONE

PILOT VEHICLE TRAFFIC ESCORT

Evidence of success

360,000 man hours lost-time injury free

Survey results point to cultural change in attitudes to safety

High praise from client:“..a positive safety culture”

Continue to see results proving long-term culture change

Key lesson:workforce empowered to address challenges on site as they arose.

Supporting data

INFOGRAPHIC SLIDE

Gore Highway FBS

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