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.
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Vector
Electricity operating standards
finalist
Health and Safety Initiative of the Year
New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards 2017
Vector demonstrated its absolute commitment to worker safety when it completely reengineered a core system of work even though it had been standard practice within the industry for years.
When reviewing health and safety requirements, the Vector board rejected standard industry practice of crew maintaining and repairing a live network.
To support the decision to de-energise, key Vector personnel reviewed safe systems of work, developed new risk assessment tools, collaborated with Field Service Providers and updated Operating Standards.
Today, Vector line mechanics start every job knowing that, apart from a few exceptions, the power will be switched off while they're working.