EDUCATION PROGRAMS

An Important Part of Ensuring the Safety and Wellbeing of our People is Education.

By empowering our staff with knowledge, they will ultimately ensure best practice health and safety is maintained within the workplace.

Watpac’s education programs include the Spinal Injuries Association’s SEAT at WORK program. Men and women with spinal cord injuries visit Watpac offices and work sites to talk about their experiences, offering an insight into the life-altering consequences of such injuries. Both the SEAT presenters and Watpac employees have found these sessions to be extremely rewarding, and we are proud to continue our support of the Spinal Injuries Association.

Watpac has also won industry praise for its on-going efforts to educate our staff, and spread the key messages of workplace health and safety. In support of the 2009 Work Safe Week Australia, the Company developed a campaign focused on the ‘Work Safe, Home Safe’ mantra. This involved a series of posters displayed at Watpac work sites that reminded staff that the best reason to stay safe at work is not at work at all - it is the family, friends, and lifestyle we all enjoy at home. Additionally, a drawing competition was held for the children of employees at two of our biggest construction sites in Queensland. Children were asked to draw a picture detailing how their parents remained safe at work. The concept encouraged children and their parents to discuss the key elements of workplace health and safety practices. Twelve drawings were selected to be collated into a safety calendar, which has since been distributed to staff and industry representatives throughout Australia.