112 | Health & safety everyone’s responsibility Kylie Stenton on the family farming property this past winter. Little piece of paradise! Kelly Deeks The Schultz family behind groundspread fertiliser business Mainland Spreading were surprised and delighted to have two generations recognised for their efforts at the 2022 New Zealand Groundspread Fertilisers’ Association’s awards function. John Schultz was runner up in the President’s Award while his daughter Kylie Stenton took out the Health and Safety award with judges citing her collaborative approach as well as her successful implementation and ‘bringing to life’ of the recently adopted tracking technology Fleetpin. Mainland Spreading is a family business with John and his wife Nivonne, and Kylie and her husband James operating two established spreading businesses in Aoraki and Otago. This farming family has personal insight into their clients’ requirements with a history in the dairy industry, and now running a bull finishing block. Kylie has adopted a collaborative approach to workplace health and safety because she doesn’t want Mainland Spreading to be merely adopting procedures for the workers to follow, then leaving it up to them to tick the boxes. “In our company, everyone is involved,” she says. “We hold an annual one to two day health and safety conference where we assess the season and its incidents, and go over our hazard register to see whether anything needs to be added, adjusted, or addressed. For example, 10 years ago we had no centre pivots, and now we have pivot ruts on our hazard register.” This method gets the whole team involved in policy changes as equals. “There is no hierarchy in health and safety. It needs to be adaptive, and it needs to provide drivers with the right tools to get RURAL SERVICES » Mainland Spreading Nutrients Applied. Precisely & Accurately. Accurate Nutrient Placement Trained Operators Independent Auditing USE SPREADMARK ACCREDITED CONTRACTORS FOR ASSURANCE OF For more, go to www.fertqual.co.nz rural Fuel. Delivered. On Demand. Pleased to support Mainland Spreading with on-site fuel. fill.co.nz
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