New Zealand heavy equipment supplier TransDiesel has achieved two significant recognitions which focuses on health and safety in the workplace.
It has received Gold Sitewise certification which demonstrates high quality health and safety systems and has also retained its ACC Tertiary Accredited Employers Programme (AEP) recognition.
“TransDiesel has a longstanding reputation based on providing the best sales and service back-up to our customers, and it’s important to show that we, as a company, want to do the same for our employees,” TransDiesel health and safety business partner Shane Palmer says.
“Achieving accreditation illustrates the value we put on the wellbeing and safety of our people and demonstrates we’re committed to providing the very best workplace for our staff.”
Sitewise is an industry recognised standard relating to health and safety of a business and achieving accreditation displays that a business has high quality systems in operation throughout the workplace.
Factors taken into consideration during an assessment include site-specific safety plans, accident/incident reporting and investigation, hazard management, training, employee and subcontractor engagement.
Sitewise is a not-for-profit organisation committed to creating a culture of safety in the local construction and related industries.
“We’re proud to be awarded the Gold Standard for Sitewise, as this means TransDiesel achieved 90% or above on our annual assessment,” Palmer says.
“Like SiteWise, we’re dedicated to building on workplace engagement when it comes to enhancing safety messaging, as at the end of each day we want all of our employees to go home healthy and safe.”
Retention of the ACC Tertiary Accredited Employers Programme (AEP) standard was achieved via a series of workplace reviews relating to policies and procedures, as well as ongoing commitment on the part of the business to injury prevention and rehabilitation.
TransDiesel is one of approximately 140 businesses or organisations, alongside the likes of Air NZ, Bank of New Zealand and Fonterra, which are part of the AEP Programme.
With more than 250 employees spread over 16 different locations, the responsibilities associated with achieving, then maintaining, accreditation are considerable.
“We’re committed to creating a world-class sales and service organisation and, to help keep this front of mind, we have a set of TransDiesel company values which we instill in our team members,” Palmer says.
“In this instance, the value of passion is key as we strive to deliver a workplace which is not only safe, but engaging, is somewhere people love what they do and are free to demonstrate a positive, energetic attitude.
“The safety and wellbeing of our people is our highest priority. At TransDiesel, our people know that we have their back.”
