KiwiRail Safety Culture –

Toitū Te Mauri

• Developing safety leadership skills by rolling out training to 160 senior leaders.

• Reducing critical safety risks by improving our capability to identify and make safe the high-consequence risk exposures that are currently present in our workspace.

• Transforming safety support structures, including redefining Zero Harm responsibilities, creating performance dashboards, and improving recognition of good safety practice and how we share SHE information.

Our main focus within Workstream 1 is shifting people’s mindsets when it comes to health and safety.

As a Union it is our job to protect our members and ensure they are able to go to work and come home safely at the end of their shift.

First everyone is backing this.

Our Chief Executive, our Board, our unions, our Executive team. It has unanimous support, and everyone is 100% committed to this long-term vision.

Second, it’s a proven formula. We’re working with international experts with a strong track record in helping companies like ours to improve their safety culture.

Third, Toitū Te Mauri involves all of us. This is not something that Peter Reidy is doing, or that an external consultant is doing. Each of us will play a part, at every level of our company.

And fourth, we’re lifting the safety capability of our leaders so that safety is genuinely our primary focus. This is a new approach, and we’re confident that it will deliver lasting change.

Kia Ora Comrades

I have recently joined Work Stream 1 for the Safety Culture transformation programme here at KiwiRail. Toitū Te Mauri is the name that has been gifted by Te Kupenga Mahi for our safety culture transformation programme.

The programme team involves more than 40 people from across the company, divided into four focus areas:

• Shifting safety mindsets and enabling a stronger voice for safety at KiwiRail.

MUNZ, RMTU, MSG and AMEA have partnered up with KiwiRail to help endorse this and get this message across to our membership within KiwiRail.

This shift in mindset does not only start with our front-line workers.

It has to come from the top as well to set an example and listen to the frontline workers concerns and take those concerns seriously when it comes to health and safety.

A commonly asked question is what makes this programme different to others that have rolled out in the past?

We are currently running phase one with the Mirror Walks. During these sessions it is explained why we are here, these sessions are an in depth visual into the safety culture within KiwiRail.

All our MUNZ members within KiwiRail please attend one of these sessions and encourage others to attend also. Please keep an eye out for a Mirror walk near you.

I look forward to giving an update into the programme again soon.