Health and safety

The Mobil sponsored Going Solo provides parents and young drivers with information to help reduce crash risks.

Mobil is committed to conducting its business in a manner that protects the safety and health of our employees, contractors, customers and the public.  We strive for an incident-free workplace and have set a global safety and health goal of zero injuries and illnesses.  We believe that our commitment to safe, secure and incident free operations will contribute to improved operations, greater reliability, lower costs and higher productivity. Mobil reflects these work policies by also supporting community organisations that aim to promote good health and safety.

AA Driver Education Foundation
Young restricted licence drivers are involved in more crashes than any other driving group.  Mobil has partnered with the AA Driver Education Foundation to help prevent road accidents among young restricted licence drivers. The 'Going Solo' project aims to provide parents and new restricted licence drivers with information and strategies to help reduce young driver crash risks.  

Learn more about the AA Driver Education Foundation Going Solo project, including free download of the Going Solo brochure.

Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand
In New Zealand, injuries are the leading cause of death for people aged 1 to 34 years and the second leading reason why people in these age groups are admitted to hospital.  Mobil has partnered with the Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand to support the promotion of a set of fact sheets for parents and health promotion groups on a range of safety issues, including:

• Home safety checklist
• Seat belts and child restraints
• Child safety in your driveway
• Holiday safety
• Water safety
• Harassment and bullying
• Internet safety
• Helping teenagers celebrate safely
• Young workers’ safety
• Preventing falls
• Poisoning prevention
• Fire safety
• Dog safety
• Child farm safety

The Safety fact sheets are available free from the Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand website

New Zealand Drug Foundation
Mobil has supported the New Zealand Drug Foundation (NZDF) to produce and promote education booklets for parents and teachers. The booklets, which were developed to meet a growing number of requests from parents for information about young people and drug and alcohol issues include:

• Drugs in Focus: Guide to alcohol and other drugs
• Drugs in Focus: Hosting Teenage Parties.
• Drugs in Focus: Safety First (Helping Children to Stay Safe).
• Drugs in Focus: Parent Focus (Dealing with drug issues for 9 to 14-year olds)
• Primary Pathways: An Integrated Approach to Drug Education, for primary school teachers and parents. 

Cancer Society of New Zealand
The Cancer Society of New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind, with support from Mobil, have produced cancer information in accessible formats for software that reads out text and CDs.  These resources have improved access to information for people with vision impairment, and for those who prefer to hear rather than read information.  

The Understanding Cancer series focuses on information for people affected by cancer and their supporters.  The resources provide information on types of cancer, diagnosis, their treatment and managing the impact of cancer.     

• Lung Cancer (Mate Pukupuku Pukahukahu)
• Bowel Cancer (Mate Whekau pukupuku)  
• Breast Cancer (Te Mate Pukupuku o nga U)  
• Prostate Cancer (Repe Ure)
• Melanoma (Tonapuku) 
• Secondary Breast Cancer (Matepukupuku Tuarua a-U)
• Chemotherapy (Hahau)
• Radiation Therapy (Haumanu Puhihi)
• Treatment of Cancer 
• Words Commonly Used
• Tamoxifen Treatment for Breast Cancer

The Living With Cancer series has information and supportive advice for people affected by cancer and their supporters.

• Understanding grief (Te Mate Pamamae) 
• What do I tell the children? (He aha korero maku aku tamariki?)
• Sexuality and cancer (Hokakatanga me te Mate Pukupuku)
• When someone has cancer: Suggestions for relatives and friends
• Questions you may like to ask
• Eating well (Kia Pai te Kai)
• Being active when you have cancer
• Got Water? (He Wai?) - A guide for people with a dry mouth

Hospitals
Mobil has been a long term supporter of the Ronald McDonald Houses in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch.  Ronald McDonald Houses provide support and accommodation to families whose children are in hospital.  Each year these Houses care for over 3,500 families in New Zealand.