Crews pass emergency training with flying colours

Safety is our number one priority across all our sites, and our crews participate in regular training as part of their workdays. 

One of the more dramatic training sessions happened recently at our Aotea Station site, and involved an injured worker with a broken left femur, found at the bottom of a five-metre trench.

In this case a life-sized and realistically weighted dummy was used instead of a real human.

The Aotea site crew were timed on how long it took to safely rescue the dummy from the trench, and whether certain key actions were taken such as calling a roster of who was on site and an ambulance. 

The team passed with flying colours, and the drill was a timely reminder that in construction there is a very real daily risk to those who work on site that needs to be carefully managed.