Preparing a Canberra site for the first morning

Write the induction time in the booking letter, not in a calendar invite that nobody on the gate reads. Fyshwick and Hume sites often have a contractor desk that closes twenty minutes after the posted hour; if we miss it, the morning is wasted on a footpath.

Name a host who actually holds keys to stores. A manager who is “across it” but works on Civic meetings cannot open a cage at 6:40 a.m. For lockers and vans, name a witness. We will not open them alone.

Tell the crew we will count issued kits and that talks are optional. If you say “head office audit,” people hide personal substitutes and the application picture goes false. If you say nothing, people think we are stealing.

Leave the benches. A Sunday tidy is visible. Pack a visitor helmet only if your site requires it; we bring boots and hearing protection. Parking that is not in a live reversing bay helps. If the only park is in the yard, say so, and we will arrive on foot from the street.

The Canberra desk can take these details by phone. Sending a map of the cage helps more than sending a brand catalogue of the kit.