On the first floor of a rather non-descript seven floor office building owned by Sir Bob ‘the merry mayor maker of Wellington’ Jones, is a state sector organisation called Learning State.

Part of our fabulous State Services Commission, its job ‘is to develop excellent State servants’ and to make sure the state sector is an ‘employer of choice’.

Since Sir Bob’s building boasts two of the slowest lifts in New Zealand, it’s odd these teachers of ‘excellent’ public servants cannot walk one flight of stairs.

Exasperated tenants of Sir Bob stare in disbelief as this small army of bureaucrat-educators alight at level one, coffee and ample calories in hand.

Perhaps Learning State should re-read how to apply sustainable environmental management  or perhaps its just living its own ‘employer of choice mantra’, by taking its key concepts and models of injury prevention one lift too far.