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StayLive was founded in 2011 by NZ's five largest electricity generators. Membership has since been extended to include Pioneer Energy, Transpower and the Electricity Engineers' Association as core members.

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People who are considered great health, safety and wellbeing leaders earn the respect of the people they work with who, thanks to their leadership, go home healthy, safe and well. How well New Zealand is really doing in leading workplace health, safety and wellbeing is most accurate gauged by the perceptions of people at all levels within our workplaces.

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The WCP Working Group have been very busy over the last few months and the latest version of the StayLive Work Control Procedures is now available to download. We have also included a separate document with the procedural diagrams and an editable version so you can personalise with your company brand should you wish to do so.

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New working groups that are in the process of being formed include Asbestos Management and Frontline Leadership. The Training and Competency working group is being re-established to leverage off the development and implementation of the StayLive Competency Too. Read more...

In addition to the Operator Training and Critical Risk guides that were published last year we are about to publish the Fitness for Work guide and this will be available soon. This guide concludes the work of the Fitness for Work Working Group. Please go to the Guidelines section to access and download these documents. Read more...

It is with great sadness that the StayLive team would like to acknowledge the enormous contribution that Harvey made to the industry. Harvey was a key contributor to the development of the StayLive Work Control Procedures and helped to provide the important link between the work StayLive were doing and the SM-EI rules and the GPG guidelines. The expertise that he brought to the working group and his quiet, considered and authoritative opinion will be sorely missed and extraordinarily difficult to replace.

We welcome Gina Miles from Genesis Energy and Ted Kirkbride from Top Energy and also welcome back Peter Coyle who will continue to assist with the administration of StayLive. We also farewell Paul Robinson and Lesley Johnson, both of whom have made a valuable contribution to the team during the course of their time with StayLive. Read More

StayLive were recognised at the 2018 NZ Workplace Health & Safety Awards for our work in the electricity supply industry by successfully taking out the "Best Leadership of an Industry Sector or Region" award. Read more


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