CLIENT SUPPLIED CONTENT: Nothing is more important to Megan Wordsworth than ensuring her colleagues get home safely each day.

That’s only as you would expect from ACL’s highly focused health and safety manager, who lives and breathes workplace wellbeing.

“The most important thing is getting all of us home and it's not an easy job,’’ Megan said of her health and safety role at Ashburton Contracting Limited, which has been in operation since 1995.

“And it's sometimes a bit of a dangerous job.’’

Megan is big on proactive health and safety efforts to ensure processes are in place, understood and that all incidents, or near incidents, are recorded and learned from.

“We're looking at auditing of sites, making sure that paperwork is going out to sites that need to be (audited),’’ she said.

“We're keeping our documentation up to date because that initiates controlling hazards and risks that we have out there.

“It’s generally trying to ensure that the guys are working in such a way that's good for them, that brings them home every night to their families, and where they actually, hopefully, enjoy the job as well.’’

And the vibe is that they love their work, that they all understand that nothing is more important than a rock-solid health and safety culture, which ACL clearly has.

“It's driven from the top,’’ Megan said.

“The CEO (Gary Casey) is very proactive in health and safety policy and ensuring that there is support right through the company to be able to make sure our guys are able to work safely.

“Resources are provided to be able to do that.’’

Those resources include training and creating opportunities, which saw Megan transition from human resources to health and safety.

“I came in not having health and safety experience and came in as a coordinator, and ACL have been really great at giving support for training.

“There a lot of people across the company with that training, and I think that that's amazing.’’