Overview
Forestry is one of New Zealand's prime industries with timber products widely used in the construction sector. The client, a leading timber provider, processes forestry into a variety of building products designed for a range of uses. Each year the heavy processing machinery is stopped so that annual maintenance can be completed by multiple contracting companies and individual contractors.
Each contractor needs to understand and comply with the Health and Safety responsibilities laid out in the client's policies and any work needs to be planned and approved in advance. New contractors need to have been given induction training and every few years each contractor needs to complete a review to confirm they understand the safety rules of the work site.
The client had some basic tools to train, induct and track contractors however they requested ideas to improve the process and remove some of the manual steps that slowed down the induction of contractors and posed problems with reliability.
