Project Achieves Federal Safety Accreditation

As we are directly managing the federally funded Broome Cape Leveque Road upgrade project, we needed accreditation from the Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner which works with industry and government on health and safety standards on Australian building and construction projects.

The audit involved an in depth review of our Safety Management Systems in an array of categories. Specific attention was paid to:

• Occupational Health and Safety Management System compliance
• risk management and the integration of design into the risk management process
• high-risk operational activities 
• auditing
• the commitment of our senior management implementing Main Roads’ operational health and safety systems.

With the hard work of a dedicated project team, we obtained the accreditation with minimal corrective actions.

A six monthly maintenance review will be conducted by the Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner in which the Corporate Safety Team will continue to work with the Regions to ensure health and safety are the foundations on which we deliver direct-managed federally funded projects. We are taking the opportunity to apply improvements and lessons learnt through this process to improve our existing corporate practices.