responses to incidents of death and injury from falling on the Wellington Waterfront scince 1987.

Christine McCarthy, President, Architectural Centre; Kent Dunston, Save the Basin Reserve; Peter Cooke, Spokesperson, Mt Cook Mobilised; Martin Hanley, Vice President, Newtown Residents' Association made this Official Information request to Wellington City Council

The request was successful.

From: Christine McCarthy, President, Architectural Centre; Kent Dunston, Save the Basin Reserve; Peter Cooke, Spokesperson, Mt Cook Mobilised; Martin Hanley, Vice President, Newtown Residents' Association

Dear Wellington City Council,

The Architectural Centre is a volunteer organisation made up of professionals and non-professionals who seek to promote good design of the built environment. Incorporated in 1946, the Centre has a long and proud tradition of doing just this.

The Centre requests information about the Council, and its subsidiaries, responses to incidents of death and injury from falls higher than 1m on the Wellington Waterfront (between the Railway station and Chaffers Marina) since 1987. We ask for this information from Wellington City Council and its subsidiary organisation(s) including Wellington Waterfront Limited (originally Lambton Harbour Management Limited).

Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 there is a requirement for the Council and its subsidiary organisation(s) to respond to incidents of harm in the workplace on "the principle that workers and other persons should be given the highest level of protection against harm to their health, safety, and welfare from hazards and risks."

Specifically, please provide:
1: The register of waterfront hazards
2: Reports on health and safety at the waterfront commissioned by Wellington City Council and Wellington Waterfront Limited (originally Lambton Harbour Management Limited)
3: Accident reports about people who have been drowned, killed or injured as a result of falls from heights greater than 1.0m at the waterfront
4: Documents about council and subsidiary organisation(s) employees' responsibility as 'Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking' (PCBU) for safety from falling under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
5: Communications with WorkSafe New Zealand about safety from falling at the waterfront
6: Any other safety improvements recommended to prevent falls from heights greater than 1.0m at the waterfront

Yours faithfully,

The Architectural Centre Inc.
(Chris Watson & Kate Linzey)

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Wellington City Council

Tēnā koe

Thank you for your email dated 19 May 2023 requesting information.

Our team will manage your request under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 which requires us to provide a decision as soon as possible, but no later than 19 June 2023, being 20 working days of receipt.

The reference number for your request is IRC-4895

Please contact us if you have any further questions.

Kind regards

The Assurance Team
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Kia ora Chris Watson & Kate Linzey

Thank you for your request regarding Waterfront incidents from falling.

Please see attached decision letter regarding your request.
Below is a link to the documents that are in scope as the documents were too large to send via email.
https://wccgovtnz-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/...
Link is valid for 30 days, password is IRC-4895

I hope to provide the rest of the information as soon as possible.

Kind Regards

Asha Harry
Senior Advisor | Official Information Team | Wellington City Council
W Wellington.govt.nz | |
The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and intended for the addressee only.
If you are not the intended recipient, you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not disclose, copy or make use of its contents.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christine McCarthy, President, Architectural Centre; Kent Dunston, Save the Basin Reserve; Peter Cooke, Spokesperson, Mt Cook Mobilised; Martin Hanley, Vice President, Newtown Residents' Association <[FOI #22855 email]>
Sent: Friday, 19 May 2023 12:18 pm
To: BUS: Assurance <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - responses to incidents of death and injury from falling on the Wellington Waterfront scince 1987.

Dear Wellington City Council,

The Architectural Centre is a volunteer organisation made up of professionals and non-professionals who seek to promote good design of the built environment. Incorporated in 1946, the Centre has a long and proud tradition of doing just this.

The Centre requests information about the Council, and its subsidiaries, responses to incidents of death and injury from falls higher than 1m on the Wellington Waterfront (between the Railway station and Chaffers Marina) since 1987. We ask for this information from Wellington City Council and its subsidiary organisation(s) including Wellington Waterfront Limited (originally Lambton Harbour Management Limited).

Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 there is a requirement for the Council and its subsidiary organisation(s) to respond to incidents of harm in the workplace on "the principle that workers and other persons should be given the highest level of protection against harm to their health, safety, and welfare from hazards and risks."

Specifically, please provide:
1: The register of waterfront hazards
2: Reports on health and safety at the waterfront commissioned by Wellington City Council and Wellington Waterfront Limited (originally Lambton Harbour Management Limited)
3: Accident reports about people who have been drowned, killed or injured as a result of falls from heights greater than 1.0m at the waterfront
4: Documents about council and subsidiary organisation(s) employees' responsibility as 'Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking' (PCBU) for safety from falling under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
5: Communications with WorkSafe New Zealand about safety from falling at the waterfront
6: Any other safety improvements recommended to prevent falls from heights greater than 1.0m at the waterfront

Yours faithfully,

The Architectural Centre Inc.
(Chris Watson & Kate Linzey)

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Roger Calkin left an annotation ()

I can tell you with 100% certainty that some to the information given in this response is not factual.

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Kia ora Chris and Kate

Just wanted to provide you with an update.

I was hoping to have this finished however I still have about 60 more lines to review to remove private information.

I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Kind Regards

Asha Harry
Senior Advisor | Official Information Team | Wellington City Council
W Wellington.govt.nz | |
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-----Original Message-----
From: BUS: Assurance <[email address]>
Sent: Monday, 19 June 2023 4:32 pm
To: Christine McCarthy, President, Architectural Centre; Kent Dunston, Save the Basin Reserve; Peter Cooke, Spokesperson, Mt Cook Mobilised; Martin Hanley, Vice President, Newtown Residents' Association <[FYI request #22855 email]>; BUS: Assurance <[email address]>
Subject: RE: Official Information request - responses to incidents of death and injury from falling on the Wellington Waterfront scince 1987.

Kia ora Chris Watson & Kate Linzey

Thank you for your request regarding Waterfront incidents from falling.

Please see attached decision letter regarding your request.
Below is a link to the documents that are in scope as the documents were too large to send via email.
https://wccgovtnz-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/...
Link is valid for 30 days, password is IRC-4895

I hope to provide the rest of the information as soon as possible.

Kind Regards

Asha Harry
Senior Advisor | Official Information Team | Wellington City Council W Wellington.govt.nz | | The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and intended for the addressee only.
If you are not the intended recipient, you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not disclose, copy or make use of its contents.
If received in error you are asked to destroy this email and contact the sender immediately. Your assistance is appreciated.

-----Original Message-----
From: Christine McCarthy, President, Architectural Centre; Kent Dunston, Save the Basin Reserve; Peter Cooke, Spokesperson, Mt Cook Mobilised; Martin Hanley, Vice President, Newtown Residents' Association <[FYI request #22855 email]>
Sent: Friday, 19 May 2023 12:18 pm
To: BUS: Assurance <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - responses to incidents of death and injury from falling on the Wellington Waterfront scince 1987.

Dear Wellington City Council,

The Architectural Centre is a volunteer organisation made up of professionals and non-professionals who seek to promote good design of the built environment. Incorporated in 1946, the Centre has a long and proud tradition of doing just this.

The Centre requests information about the Council, and its subsidiaries, responses to incidents of death and injury from falls higher than 1m on the Wellington Waterfront (between the Railway station and Chaffers Marina) since 1987. We ask for this information from Wellington City Council and its subsidiary organisation(s) including Wellington Waterfront Limited (originally Lambton Harbour Management Limited).

Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 there is a requirement for the Council and its subsidiary organisation(s) to respond to incidents of harm in the workplace on "the principle that workers and other persons should be given the highest level of protection against harm to their health, safety, and welfare from hazards and risks."

Specifically, please provide:
1: The register of waterfront hazards
2: Reports on health and safety at the waterfront commissioned by Wellington City Council and Wellington Waterfront Limited (originally Lambton Harbour Management Limited)
3: Accident reports about people who have been drowned, killed or injured as a result of falls from heights greater than 1.0m at the waterfront
4: Documents about council and subsidiary organisation(s) employees' responsibility as 'Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking' (PCBU) for safety from falling under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
5: Communications with WorkSafe New Zealand about safety from falling at the waterfront
6: Any other safety improvements recommended to prevent falls from heights greater than 1.0m at the waterfront

Yours faithfully,

The Architectural Centre Inc.
(Chris Watson & Kate Linzey)

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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FYI request #22855 email]

Is [Wellington City Council request email] the wrong address for Official Information requests to Wellington City Council? If so, please contact us using this form:
https://fyi.org.nz/change_request/new?bo...

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If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA page.

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Christine McCarthy, President, Architectural Centre; Kent Dunston, Save the Basin Reserve; Peter Cooke, Spokesperson, Mt Cook Mobilised; Martin Hanley, Vice President, Newtown Residents' Association left an annotation ()

Kia ora,

Thank you for the information that has been supplied to date. We recognise that there are further documents which are being processed. Given the scale of our information request we see this as a reasonable delay.

We look forward to being able to process all the documents and formulate our response in due course

Ngā Mihi
Kate (on behalf of the Architectural Centre)

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Kia ora Chris and Kate

 

Thank you for your patience on this request.

I am sorry for the delay in providing you with this information.

 

Please see attached response.

 

Kind Regards

 

Asha Harry

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From: Christine McCarthy, President, Architectural Centre; Kent Dunston, Save the Basin Reserve; Peter Cooke, Spokesperson, Mt Cook Mobilised; Martin Hanley, Vice President, Newtown Residents' Association

Dear Asha Harry,

Thank you for this additional information. A formal response by the Architectural Centre to these details will be made in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Kate Linzey, on behalf of the Architectural Centre

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