Kaefer delivers services across the full lifecycle of assets, from construction through to asset integrity, maintenance and shutdowns. For more than 100
years it has worked in industrial plants, residential and commercial buildings, on oil rigs and ships.
Nominated project: SMART Choices Behavioural Program
Premier's Awards category: Health and safety (Resources sector)
Kaefers’ Managing Director attended the Darwin site and engaged with employees, where a common theme that arose was poor ‘choices’ being made in the workplace.
This led to the development of a safety program called “Safe Choice - Right Choice”. Although successful, this did not support the business holistically.
The program was further developed into the five key pillars of SAFE Choices (Safety), PROUD Choices (Quality), GREEN Choices (Environment), HEALTHY Choices (People) and EFFICIENT Choices (Productivity).
How did the program name arise? Giving a keynote speech, Kevin Sheedy (former Essendon Football Club coach) mentioned the need for players to constantly make Smart Choices. The phrase was implemented as KAEFER’s behaviour and culture program name - SMART Choices.
SMART Choices is KAEFER’s cultural program and something it is very proud to use every day.
Q&A with Kaefer Integrated Services
KAEFER developed and implemented a culture-based program to target Smart Choices in the workplace.
The Smart Choices program is made up of 5 key pillars:
- SAFE choices - identifying the safe choices that employees make
- PROUD choices - identifying what choices employees made to make them proud
- HEALTHY choices - identifying what healthy choices an employee has made, including health and fitness, and mental health
- GREEN choices - identifying what choices employees have made to help the environment
- EFFICIENT choices - identifying what choices employees have made to help complete the work more efficiently and increase productivity
Kaefer had a safety program that focused on keeping our employees safe.
We recognised that employee safety is paramount, there is more to our business. As such we wanted a program that addressed the 5 key pillars of the business and gave our employees something tangible they can relate to in empowering the choices they make daily in these areas.
Our employees relate to all the 5 pillars, for their individual choices that they make both at work and at home. The program is more encompassing than being purely based around safety, however all pillars relate back to the employee’s safety in some way.
We have also introduced a rewards and recognition program that identifies monthly winners for the best choices made. This is communicated nationally which also makes the employees PROUD. Our employees are our most valuable assets, and this program supports our employees.
KAEFER are very proud of our Smart Choices program and the results that we have achieved since implementing the program. We see value in sharing this success with others to help others improve safety and wellbeing in the workplace.
South Australia has a large number of industrial and economic opportunities, a pool of talented and skilled employees and affordable cost of living. This creates a great environment to work and raise a family. Why would you want to live anywhere else!
KAEFER service a number of different industries in South Australia including oil and gas, mining, power generation, defence, and infrastructure projects. With the current pipeline of projects across all industries we see a very strong future of opportunities.
Over the past 5 years KAEFER have experienced year on year growth in South Australia and forecast future growth with the current pipeline of projects and increase in defence contracts in the state.
It’s important to recognise what organisations are doing to improve their business in South Australia and it’s just as important to share this information so that others may benefit from it.
After rolling out our Smart Choices campaign to the workforce we noticed a step change in the employees attitude towards making the right choices at work and at home. Our employees are focused on continuous improvements in all areas of the workplace, and this is worth sharing with others.
- People are our greatest asset; we need to look after our people
- Networking within the state
- Hard work, a can-do attitude and continuous improvement through innovation
South Australia has a large number of industrial and economic opportunities, a pool of talented and skilled employees and affordable costs of living.
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