Eye protection sees success

The compulsory introduction of safety eye wear on construction sites helped North Shore company Naylor Love Construction win this year’s ACC Excellence in Workplace Safety Award.

Naylor Love took the title at the 2009 Westpac Enterprise North Shore Business Excellence Awards.

The Glenfield-based company offers a full range of construction services, feasibility and pre-construction planning, comprehensive project management services, and design management. It can undertake projects up to $100 million in value and is known for its excellent relationships with clients and subcontractors and its can-do attitude, it aims to deliver measurably the best construction services.

“Naylor Love Construction stands out as an industry leader in health and safety practice with well organised systems, accreditation and clear evidence of employee involvement,” says the 2009 Convenor of Judges, Matthew Bellingham.

“We were particularly taken with how they went out of the way to accommodate staff concerns and address potential barriers to change, particularly with their roll out of an initially unpopular policy requiring the compulsory wearing of eye protection on construction sites. Resolving this issue was impressive and showed commitment, compromise and perseverance in achieving a health and safety goal.”

Naylor Love entered the Auckland market in 2003, partly for long-term strategic reasons and partly upon the invitation of national clients who were keen to extend relationships which had started in the South. Since then they have completed close to $300 million worth of projects in the North.

Naylor Love Limited, a private construction company, was formed in Dunedin in 1969 with the merger of two independent building companies which had already played a major role in the development of New Zealand for more than sixty years. The company’s head office remains in Dunedin, but it is represented by divisions in Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Central Otago. Each division trades as an autonomous entity. Decision-making is decentralized to ensure that the services and solutions offered in any one region reflect the business environment and the needs of that region’s clients.

“Our people are solution-focused, they build relationships based on open and inclusive engagement at all levels in our business, and are hell-bent on becoming measurably the best construction company in Auckland,” says Naylor Love Auckland regional manager Phil Brosnan.

“By employing best practices across every discipline in our business, despite a rapidly declining market, we are bucking the trend with continuous growth.”

Enterprise North Shore chief executive Terry Hoskins congratulates Naylor Love’s achievement. “This was a highly competitive category this year indicating that looking after the health and well being of staff is obviously a high priority for North Shore businesses.”

See all 2009 Award winners

For more information contact:

Ainslie Stevenson

Communications Administrator

Enterprise North Shore

Ph: (09) 414-1343; Mob: (027) 500 8592

E-mail: comms@ens.org.nz

See also: www.ens.org.nz