The Bay of Plenty division of Fulton Hogan has taken out a national safety award for its contribution to the community. The division won the `Outstanding business contributing to a greater well-being of its own workforce and the community in general' category in the New Zealand Community Safety and InjuryPrevention Awards. The division, which is based in Tauranga, is part of Tauranga's City Partnership Programme and became involved with Tauranga's bid to achieve World Health Organisation Safe City status. Tauranga became New Zealand's seventh Safe Community last month. Fulton Hogan part-funded Tauranga's Safe City co-ordinator and representatives sat on the committee. The company and its employees also took part in the White Ribbon campaign as advocates for non-violence against women and raised money during the Heart Stopper Challenge for Heart Children New Zealand. Fulton Hogan also provided workers with annual medicals that also assessed workers' lifestyle, paid for quit smoking programmes, nutritional programmes and weight loss competitions for staff, and Sunsmart programmes. It also supported after-hours sports teams, along with other special event that focus on fitness, such as the Oxfam 100km walk. "We all live in Tauranga and have families here, so it made sense for us to support something that made the community we live in safer," Fulton Hogan's Bay of Plenty project manager Keith Campbell said.
