Protecting the safety and health of our national workforce is a key driver in the business. Over the past three years, we've partnered with New Zealand based health & safety leader innovation leader SonaSafe to develop specific solutions to the unique requirements of our staff and equipment.

How does the SonaSafe solution work

SonaSafe is a fully integrated end-to-end proximity awareness solution that includes both real-time warning and alerts data analytics and staff engagement tools that help drive behaviour change. Staff wear personal detector units (PDU's) which are configured to reflect the relative dangers of our freight hub environments. As our mobile plant machinery moves around the freight hubs, they create dynamic exclusion zones. If anyone enters these dynamic exclusion zones, real-time warnings are trigerred to the drivers, machinery, and staff which alerts them to take action.

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What does this innovation mean for our staff

Since implementing the SonaSafe solution we've been able to engage our staff in Health & Safety conversations supported their real-world data. Working alongside our internal team and those at SonaSafe we've seen an 80% reduction in near misses as well as a 65% reduction in exclusion zone breaches. Ultimately we're driving behavioural change through a more engaged workforce and creating a safer work environment.

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"Sonasafe has worked collaboratively with Mainstream to configure Sonasafe system alerts to reflect on-the-ground operational risk in a dynamic warehousing environment. Through accurate real-time alerting and reinforcing positive behaviour their workforce operates safer and more efficiently".
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- Conal Martin, SonaSafe Chief Operations Officer

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What's next for safety?

We continue to work closely with SonaSafe to identify risks across all of our operations and develop more innovative solutions with the goal of reaching no avoidable harm (NAH).

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