Health and Safety Initiative of the Year
This award celebrates excellence in a network business where an initiative delivers outstanding results. This could be a success story about anything whether it is innovative asset management, engineering, IT system development, project management, new energy initiative or customer focus.
Sponsored by
Powerco
The Sparky experience
finalist
Health and Safety Initiative of the Year
New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards 2018
Powerco’s Sparky is a larger-than-life cartoon character whose mission is to bring a safety message to school children in the company’s electrical distribution area. Sparky takes the form of a superhero, a walking, talking person in a superhero suit who engages easily with 5-to-10-year-olds. Sparky and his assistant present a 10-minute skit at schools showing children how to avoid accidents with Powerco’s electrical installations and power lines. The presentation is accompanied by a video, Sparky book for their school library, stickers for the children and told about Sparky’s website.