Hello

The Waka Kotahi Safe System audit guidelines 2022, page 8 states:
"Desirably a post-construction Safe System audit should be undertaken before opening the project for public use. If in practice this is not possible, the Safe System audit should be undertaken as soon after opening as possible."

This is a request for the post-construction Safe System audit report completed for the Petone to Melling cycle-way project. The request includes the Project Managers responses and decisions (normally included within the report).

This request for information specifically includes the names of the Parties to the audit including, but not limited to the:
client,
project manager,
audit team leader,
lead designer and.
road safety engineer,

I would like to point out that these parties are employed under contract, either directly as NZTA staff or consultants, to perform key roles on a publicly funded project. The names of most, if not all, of these people are already in the public domain. They have no reasonable expectation of their names being redacted from this or any report.

I look forward to receiving the report.

Yours faithfully,

Darren Conway

Dear Mark Kinvig

Thank you for releasing the Safety Audit Report. It contains a lot of useful information.

I note your refusal to release the identities of those holding key roles in the project under section 9(2)(a). My request was for the identities of those holding key roles, without regard to the nature of contractual linkage to the project.

It has long been established in case law and the Ombudsman Guidance that "As a general rule, the identities of contractors awarded public sector contracts (whether by tender or not) ... should always be disclosed in the public interest." This is a quote from the case notes 175789 dated August 2008. The IOA does not define or limit the term "contractor". A person working under contract to a consultancy firm, contracted to complete work for the NZTA is a "contractor". A contractor in a key role on a public infrastructure project, paid from public funds, has no reasonable expectation of maintaining anonymity.

Yours sincerely,

Darren Conway