Highlights from the year

JANUARY

KiwiRail safely completed 24hour shifts during a Block of Line over the Christmas period. In

Mt Eden they prepared the NAL so that a single rail line could run from July 2020.

MARCH

CRL Ltd contributed to the development of panconstruction industry COVID-19 health and safety (H&S) protocols. These supported a safe and successful restart of construction across CRL sites after COVID-19 Alert Level 4 was lifted.

JUNE

The first independent annual review of safety maturity for the project was conducted using the Risk Management Maturity Model (RM3).

2020

FEBRUARY

The last strut was safely removed from Albert Street as part of Contract 2 works.

This marked the end of 18-months of high-risk activity successfully completed without incident.

MAY

The Link Alliance installed the first water treatment plant at Mercury Lane.

These have now been rolled out at all Link Alliance sites.

JULY

Six rangatahi joined Link Alliance's

Progressive Employment Programme.

SEPTEMBER

The CRL project's health, safety, environment and sustainability team completed a volunteer day at Tararata Stream in Māngere. Together they cleared around 500kg of rubbish and invasive weeds.

The CRL project celebrated the first 'Mahia te mahi' Health & Safety engagement week.

AUGUST NOVEMBER

CRL Ltd's Progressive Employment

Programme was a finalist for the Social Impact Award at the ReBuilding Nations Conference.

Contract 8 Ōtāhuhu

Station works were successfully completed with a leading safety record.

OCTOBER DECEMBER

Te Manawa - the Link Alliance's training centre -opened. Over 200 people completed a H&S induction in the first month.

The project marked NZ Recycle week with help from animated character,

Michael Recycle. The team gave recycling demonstrations and played an extremely competitive recycling game. Te Komititanga - downtown's newest civic square - opened after four years of construction. The square's name was gifted by

Mana Whenua, and its designs were created by Mana Whenua artists and weavers.

Health & Safety

CRL Ltd aspires to health & safety (H&S) excellence in everything we do. This is an ambitious and challenging goal, and one which requires continued effort and focus from all those involved in CRL to achieve it.

CRL Ltd's Health & Safety Strategy 2019-21 sets out our vision 'Mahia te mahi, hei painga hei oranga mo tātou katoa - To do the work for the good of everyone'. To achieve this vision, four strategic priorities have been identified:

• enhance the maturity of the H&S management system • support and embed safer working behaviours • establish improved H&S performance measurement • enable continuous H&S improvement.

This report provides a summary of progress across each of these areas, using examples to illustrate how that work has lifted safety standards on the project.

The Link Alliance is the main construction partner for CRL and has established a strong health and safety culture and framework to achieve CRL Ltd's legal requirements.

A significant milestone in 2020 was the opening of Te Manawa, the Link Alliance's safety training and visitor information centre. Thousands of workers will attend this centre and receive a project induction, behavioural safety training and practical experiences of common site hazards using purpose-built hands-on training modules.

Using this facility, Link Alliance has invested heavily in training for their teams during the year, including incident management and crisis preparedness. With the arrival of the TBM, the focus has been on ensuring these teams have all the correct competencies to manage their works safely. This is vitally important: individuals working underground face particular dangers. The training these teams receive at Te Manawa ensures, amongst other things, that they are familiar with procedures and equipment necessary to escape from the tunnel in the event of fire or smoke.

CRL Ltd continues to monitor and support the delivery of safety excellence across the project. Part of this involves frequent visits to site, engagement with workers and front-line supervisors, and highlighting both good and poor practice where it is seen. CRL Ltd is grateful to our construction partners for their commitment to achieving our health and safety goals.