Keeping our people safe
We maintain our commitment of “Everyone Safely Home Every Day” and actively value and protect the physical and mental health and safety of our employees and contractors. As a high-hazard site, we continually look to improve our safety systems by investigating events, near misses and hazards and learning from these and by engagement with our workers and contractors.
We are continually striving to deliver a world-class health and safety performance in order to keep our people and our site safe.
We support our people with regular training, health and safety management systems and a dedicated Health, Safety and Environmental support team.
Our safety culture is underpinned by safety initiatives including our targeted safety engagements, which are undertaken by people across the business. We regularly provide recognition to those who excel in applying the safety practices on the site this includes our Kaihautu Award.
Our Safety Case
As we operate a high hazard facility, we work within a system of stringent safety policies and controls and comply with New Zealand’s Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
To demonstrate our ability to operate safely with control over potential hazards, we developed a comprehensive Safety Case which was approved in 2022 by WorkSafe, the regulator. Our Safety Case has been updated to reflect the business transition to import terminal operations.
The Safety Case details the hazards that, left unchecked, could result in major incidents; along with the measures used to prevent such incidents occurring and the emergency response systems to reduce consequences should an incident occur. We are proud of our team and the work that has gone into developing the Safety Case, which further strengthens the effectiveness of personal and process safety management at Channel Infrastructure.
We continually update the Safety Case to ensure it is relevant and up to date as the site changes.
