Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency have made amendments to their document,“Contractor health and safety expectations: guidance for supply chain partners”.

These amendments include:

• incorporate the “Minimum requirements – workplace personal protective equipment” table as Appendix A, removing the requirement for a separate document
• insertion of a new section “6.1 COVID-19 Management”
• insertion of a new section “6.4 Worker health and wellbeing”
• update section 7.7 Temporary Traffic Management to manage risk using the risk-based approach in the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Adoption of the risk-based     approach can be made now and wherever possible to lower the risk to road workers and road users so far as reasonably practicable.
• update section 6.3 Fatigue Management, removing the requirement for the “Contractor expectations: fatigue management” document
• the following sub-sections have been moved from section “6. Waka Kotahi Specific Risk Management Requirements” to Section “5. Waka Kotahi General Health and Safety Expectations of Contractors”
• 6.2 Drug & Alcohol Impairment Management
• 6.3 Fatigue Management

The NZTA Contractor Health and Safety Expectations document is available online here.

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