Vector AR’19 ― safety always
safety always
5,070 students attended Vector’s Stay Safe Around Electricity schools programme 4801 certification maintained for New Zealand and Australian businesses, 7901 certificates continued
Supporting wellness Our focus on promoting employee wellness continued throughout this year with initiatives stemming from feedback in our annual Wellbeing 360 survey and other initiatives. Highlights included our Blue September roadshows to raise awareness of prostate and testicular cancer, and where more than 100 male workers underwent a prostate cancer screening test. To promote healthier eating, we delivered fruit trees and established vegetable gardens at our OnGas Bottle Swap plant in Papakura, providing ready access to a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables. Feedback has been encouraging, and in the coming year we intend to repeat this initiative at other Vector sites. Vector also welcomed back MINDsense founder Michael Duff, who ran a series of sessions with more than 100 employees participating each time. These sessions help our people to build a more positive self-view by exploring positive ways to direct thoughts, actions and outcomes. Safer communities Vector is committed to educating communities about the importance of keeping safe around electricity and other energy infrastructure. Our award-winning Stay Safe Around Electricity schools programme is offered free of charge to schools and links directly to the New Zealand Curriculum. The programme runs in Years 3 to 8. In the last year, we visited 28 schools and engaged with 5,070 children. Vector continues to support ‘beforeUdig’, an online service giving anyone undertaking excavation works access to information on the location of cables, pipes and other utility assets in and around any proposed dig site. This helps to protect people and valuable assets during these works. In 2018, more than 172,000 enquiries were managed through the site.
Vector is committed to safety in everything we do. The only thing we care about more than keeping the lights on is keeping our community and our people safe. Vector’s aim is to manage the risks inherent in working and living around electricity, gas and other technology systems. Improved safety at work We have made strong progress towards our safety goals this year, with a significant reduction in both the occurrence of injury incidents and their severity. Our focus on managing safety centres around the proactive steps we can take to avoid incidents. This includes training to ensure our workers have the right skills to do their jobs safely, audits and inspections to check we are delivering the right outcomes, and leadership engagement to demonstrate commitment from the highest levels of the organisation. To track how we are progressing, Vector measures its Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) and Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate (TRIFR). This year we are pleased to report a 35% improvement in our LTIFR compared with FY18, and a 40% improvement in our TRIFR compared with FY18. Both LTIFR and TRIFR include our own directly employed workforce as well as our contracting workforce. A large portion of the TRIFR improvements have come from our contracting workforce (47% improvement compared with FY18). Our severity rate (number of working days lost due to injury) has improved by 83% compared with FY18. This shows we are not only reducing both the occurrence of injury incidents but also the severity in nature of those incidents.
90 Health and safety leadership engagements undertaken
400 employees have participated in ‘fatigue awareness’ roadshows over the past two years
HEALTH & SAFETY INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
OnGas Bottle Swap Plant won Health and Safety Initiative of the Year at the 2018 Deloitte Energy Excellence Awards
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