City Multi-Sport Facility: Despite Poor Health and Safety Record, Government Sticks To CPB Contractor
The Wigram reports on Rau Penga's disclosure that 155 health and safety incidents have been reported to do with Parakiore and Worksafe's list of 22 incidents for Christchurch alone.
By 20 September this year, Rau Paenga had recorded 155 health and safety incidents regarding CPB, the contractor in charge of completing the Parakiore Multisport Facility. WorkSafe has also received a raft of health and safety concerns and notifications relating to CPB going back to 2018.
“Member of Public reporting unsafe working conditions at Metro Sports Facility work site. Saw someone working at height on the roofing structure, walking across a beam and they did not appear to have a harness on.”
“Heat Details: Worker called in to raise concern about the temperature at the work site. New hospital wing, working in towers, no ventilation, extremely hot and up to 30 degrees. As a result of the risk, workers are experiencing fatigue, headaches, and heat rashes. Potential of causing fatigue-related accidents.”
A worker suffering an “Injury while moving plasterboard”. It involved a “fracture injury to tibia and fibula”. They went to hospital.
“a worker standing on top of a ladder leaning away from the platform guiding a large concrete bleacher section into place at approx 3 to 4 in the air, no visible harness and was leaning out at least 1 m from the ladder using the concrete section to balance.”
In the ongoing saga that has seen a breakdown between Crown delivery agency, Rau Paenga and CPB, the contractor sought to end or suspend the building contract. But in late-October the High Court denied this move, ruling in favour of Rau Paenga (RP).
Previously CPB had sought $439.4 million on top of the $212 million it had already been paid.
The High Court ruling means CPB can’t walk away from Parakiore, a build that it was appointed to in March 2019 and is due to open in 2025.
In the lead-up to the High Court case, both Worksafe and Rau Penga released information about CPB’s health and safety performance.
On 20 September, RP disclosed that 155 health and safety incidents had happened at Parakiore. It disclosed:
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