Puataunofo Manukau Pilot Project

Appendix 13 Sample Evaluation Forms

APN Print Ltd. – Monday 10th March 2008

Evaluation Sheet – Employer

Topic	2008	2007	2006
Total number of staff employed
Total number of Pacific staff employed
Number of reported workplace accidents
Number of health and safety workshops

Please choose your level of Knowledge BEFORE today's Health & Safety presentation?

Topic	No Knowledge	Some Knowledge	A lot of Knowledge
Employer responsibilities
Employee responsibilities
Health & Safety reps role

Please choose your level of Knowledge AFTER today's Health & Safety presentation?

Topic	No Knowledge	Some Knowledge	A lot of Knowledge
Employer responsibilities
Employee responsibilities
Health & Safety reps role

Was this workshop relevant to your workplace health & safety needs?

Yes No

What outcome did you hope to achieve by having this workshop?

Would you recommend this workshop to other workplaces?

Yes No

Other Comments/feedback

APN Print Ltd. – Monday 10th March 2008

Evaluation Sheet – Health & Safety Rep

Please choose your level of Knowledge BEFORE today's Health & Safety presentation?

Topic	No Knowledge	Some Knowledge	A lot of Knowledge
Employer responsibilities
Employee responsibilities
Health & Safety reps role

Please choose your level of Knowledge AFTER today's Health & Safety presentation?

Topic	No Knowledge	Some Knowledge	A lot of Knowledge
Employer responsibilities
Employee responsibilities
Health & Safety reps role

Was this workshop relevant to your workplace health & safety needs?

Yes No

Would you recommend this workshop to other workplaces?

Yes No

Other Comments/feedback

Appendix 14 Pacific Messages

Vulnerable workers

Vulnerable workers are workers that may be at increased risk of work-related disease and injury, for example children, young people, new workers and migrants. Maori and Pacific workers may also experience a disproportionately high number of workplace incidents.

Over the last year, the Department of Labour has focused on better understanding of who our vulnerable workers are, particularly in high risk industries such as manufacturing and construction.

This work has indicated that older men, Maori and Pacific men in high risk industries and children and youth workers may also be at increased risk.

Preventive Workplace Cultures

Ultimately, individual workplaces take responsibility for their own health and safety. A preventive workplace culture is created when management and staff are all committed to managing risks and hazards. They have values, attitudes, systems and practices in place that prevent harm to people at work.

Visible management commitment and ownership of safety is seen as crucial to improving safety culture. Similarly, engaged and involved workers are key factors in maintaining and improving safety culture.

Drivers behind some communicating with Pasefika workers

The messages created by Pete Colman are based on conversations with different people within the Workplace Group, and his interactions with Pasefika communities.

Translating 'safety culture' into something everyone can understand:

Senior Policy Advisor Francois Barton through the work he is doing around productivity has created some useful commentary on how we might consider translating quite a nebulous concept into something useful to individual workers. One possible translation was:

"Would I still be doing it this way if my boss was watching me?"

Connection to family:

An obvious communications lever for Pasefika people is their strong attachment to family.

"Is doing this job quickly worth my life?"
"I work to help my family - if I die at work who's going to look after them?"
"I might look silly in this safety gear - but I'd look sillier in a coffin"
"I wear earmuffs so I'll be able to listen to my grand children."

Problem with written language:

An identified issue for Pasefika people is low levels of literacy in English. Therefore, verbal cues take on an extra significance for safety messages. Getting Pasefika workers to ask questions when they are unsure of a process or how to use a piece of equipment could therefore be important:

"No one ever died from asking a dumb question."
"Machinery kills - asking a silly question doesn't"

Issues of authority / hierarchy:

Respect for authority and a very ordered sense of hierarchy in a community raise issues of workers knowing if they have a right to do say 'no' to situations that appear unsafe:

"He's my mate - I'm sure he'd tell me not to be such an idiot!"
"People who take short cuts - have short lives!"
"I don't get paid enough to do it that way"
"Someone a lot smarter than me says that's dangerous - I'm not going to argue!"
"He might me my boss, but the law says I don't have to do anything unsafe"

Appendix 15 Workplace Related Injury information, data and issues

A) Workplace Related Injury Claims

Health & Safety
Workplace Locations	Concentrated Sector Areas	Statistical Information
Northern Region	Pacific Population: 181,638	Work Related Injury Claims in the year ending 2005
Whangarei Auckland North Auckland Central Auckland South	Manufacturing Construction Services Professional Services	4160 1415 1369 984
Waikato/Eastern Region	Pacific Population: 8,940
Hamilton Tauranga Rotorua Napier Gisborne	Manufacturing Construction Agriculture & Fish Services	910 197 167 78
Central	Pacific Population: 49,254
New Plymouth Palmerston North Wellington Lower Hutt Nelson	Manufacturing Services Professional Services Construction	721 284 224 107
Southern	Pacific Population: 15,528
Christchurch Greymouth Timaru Dunedin	Manufacturing Services Agriculture & Fish Professional Services	143 123 61 52

B) Manukau Work Related Injury Information

Chart 1 Manukau City Injury Claims for 2006

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Chart 2 Manukau City comparison between Maori & Pacific Injury Claims 2004-2006

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Appendix 16 Age 15-19 Work & Risk Profile

Summary

Significant numbers of age 15-19 (and younger school-age) people are working, over 150,000 people
They usually work part-time after school and in school holidays
They mostly work in service and sales (retail, fast food), but a significantly higher proportion than the general workforce work in high risk occupations and industries (those with highest ACC claims) - particularly:
Occupations - elementary occupations - 19% (this includes labouring and cleaning), trades (9%), and machinery operators (6%)
Industries - 10% in construction, 9% in manufacturing, 7% in agriculture, forestry & fishing.
Age 15-24 has the second highest incidence of ACC claims at 149 per 100,000 FTEs compared with 126 (and we estimate this is even higher, 175, for age 15-19).
There is a particularly high risk correlation for young pacific workers, working in Auckland, who work with machinery.
School-based research indicates young people are not highly aware of health and safety risks, and under report injuries (often considering it to be minor and blaming themselves).
There are growing opportunities in the school curriculum for HSE training and experience, particularly in trades. DoL will get more involved in this through its operational arm.
Culturally, NZ society wishes to protect young people's work experiences and their safety at work by having age restrictions on hazardous work. There is reasonable evidence that young people are still physically, psychologically and neurologically maturing.
There is some cultural evidence from employers that young workers see themselves as "bullet proof", are more individualised and less collective than previous generations.