Last week, at the New Zealand Workplace Health and
Safety Awards in Auckland, most of the finalists and winners were big
companies - Fonterra, Air New Zealand, Fletcher
Building.
In short
companies with large workforces, and established health and safety
programmes for their staff.
But
there among the big companies, was a very small, big winner - the Otaki
Volunteer Fire Brigade.
They'd
come up with something in a garden shed - a classic piece of the
proverbial number eight wire, Kiwi ingenuity.
How did it get to be the awards?
Well,
it took 20 years of dreams and work by a volunteer firefighter who died
before he could collect his award.
This is the story of a man, a shed, and a design that just may save your life.
Watch the video for the full story.