Tumu Timbers' commitment to creating a healthy workplace has been recognised with the company named a finalist in this year's New Zealand Workplace Health & Safety Awards.
The business was one of three finalists in the "Best initiative to promote better worker health" category of the awards, with winners to be announced at a gala dinner next Wednesday night in Auckland.
General manager James Truman said the team was excited to be shortlisted for the award, and that it followed significant investment in worker wellbeing, led by the company's compliance co-ordinator Kylie Truman.
"Tumu Timbers has always had a strong focus on safety in the workplace having held the highest level of safety accreditation in the ACC workplace safety management practice programme since 2004," Mr Truman said.
In 2015, a health and wellbeing committee was set up to recognise more focus was needed on the physical and mental health of the company's more than 160 employees.