The Dunedin City Council is committed to ensuring a safe working environment as well as meeting the required duties as a Principal when engaging contractors to ensure the safety of employees, contractors, sub-contractors and members of the public.
You, and any sub-contractors you engage, must be approved before commencing work and must maintain your current approval status for the duration of this work.
We want to collaborate with contractors who support and demonstrate good health and safety practices that keep their workers, our customers and anyone else who may be impacted by their work safe.
This health and safety (H&S) approval process is the first step in our process of managing H&S within our contracts. It is a review of paper-based evidence of your working H&S management system. When you are engaged by us and/or work on or within our assets this allows us to verify that you:
- have an effective, working H&S management system in place;
- have met our prerequisite H&S expectations; and
- have the necessary training, qualifications and competencies for the work that they are doing.
Contractors who do not meet the criteria will not be approved.
This is a requirement of our shared duties as a Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU) under the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA 2015).
This process is not:
- an approval for the quality of work our contractors do; or
- an endorsement for private work; or
- a guarantee of on-going or future work.
Who needs to be H&S approved?
You must be approved if:
- you are a contractor, or sub-contractor, engaged, or in the process of being engaged, to carry out work for, or on behalf of, us
- you are not working for us, but you will be working on our infrastructure or assets, e.g. within our road corridor, such as creating a vehicle entrance for a homeowner. Ultimately this means there will be overlapping H&S responsibilities as your work will affect others in the vicinity.
I’m a supplier, do I need to be approved?
Generally, no. If you are providing us with goods and services you do not need to be health and safety approved, unless:
- you are coming onto site to install these; or
- providing services on site; or
- making deliveries where high or critical risks are involved e.g. fuel or dangerous goods
I’m a consultant, do I need to be approved?
Consultants who provide advice to us may need to be health and safety approved. Please contact our health and safety team to talk about it: health.safety@dcc.govt.nz
Current DCC health and safety approved contractors with their expiry date: DCC Health and Safety Approved Contractors
How do I Apply?
Medium-High risk
You are considered Medium-High risk if your scope of work exposes you to the risk of harm or carry out physical work of any kind.
Examples include:
- carrying out work on roads, at height, entering confined spaces, in or near rivers/waterways, with hazardous substances, in construction or excavation works, manual handling etc; or
- working in potentially hazardous situations such as with dangerous animals, aggressive people etc; or
- carrying out maintenance and repair activities, construction work, service and cleaning contracts or project managing medium-high risk work.
There are two types of application – Pre-qual application or Non- Pre-qual
Pre-qual Application
Use this application if your H&S management system has been externally audited and verified i.e. you have a pre-qualification from one of the accepted accreditors listed in the table below.
| Accreditation System< | Achievement Level |
|---|---|
| Impac (PreQual) |
|
| Tōtika | Performing |
| SiteWise NZ |
Must be:
|
| ISO 45001 | Must be externally audited and accredited |
You will be required to submit evidence of
- Your current accreditation; and
- current worker training records, qualifications and licences relevant to your work.
Non Pre-qual Application
If you do not have a current pre-qual accreditation you will need to complete the Non-prequal application which requires you to provide more comprehensive evidence of your working H&S management system.
Low risk
You are considered low risk if your scope of work involves low to negligible risk of harm (no physical work is required) of any kind.
Examples include:
- on-site administration support
- office based consultant
- seminar/training presenter; or
- project manager of a lower risk project
For a low risk application please contact us.
Contact us
If you can’t find what you’re looking for here or have further questions, please email us at health.safety@dcc.govt.nz or phone our DCC customer service centre 477 4000.