Keep informed with our health and safety updates, insights, and interviews.

Model Act: the good, the bad and the ugly

31 October, 2014

Under the new health and safety legislation workplaces can expect an enforcement regime that focuses not on incidents, but on failures to assess and manage risks, according to an Australian expert in OHS law. Read more

Model Act: the good, the bad and the ugly

30 October, 2014

Under the new health and safety legislation workplaces can expect an enforcement regime that focuses not on incidents, but on failures to assess and manage risks, according to an Australian expert in OHS law. Read more

Building healthy organisations

2 October, 2014

"Creating a healthy workplace is more likely to have spinoffs for safety than creating a safe workplace will have spinoffs for health," Canadian consultant Graham Lowe told the OHSIG conference in Auckland last month. Read more

Panel on directors

2 October, 2014

Key questions to challenge boards, the availability of expertise to advise boards, and the need to integrate health and safety in our lives at home and at work - these were some of the topics discussed by a lunch panel organised by the Trans-Tasman Business Circle in Auckland last month. Read more

Building healthy organisations

2 October, 2014

"Creating a healthy workplace is more likely to have spinoffs for safety than creating a safe workplace will have spinoffs for health," Canadian consultant Graham Lowe told the OHSIG conference in Auckland last month. Read more

$120,000 fine over quad bike tour death

24 September, 2014

A defunct company which ran quad-bike tours has been fined $120,000 over the 2012 death of an Australian tourist, who died after her quad bike rolled on a public road. Read more

No excuse for failing to reduce risk of falls

10 September, 2014

Auckland company CMP Construction Limited has been fined $30,000 and ordered to pay reparation of $10,000 after an employee of a sub-contractor fell from a height of five metres. Read more

WorkSafe NZ to meet Lyttelton Port management

29 August, 2014

WorkSafe New Zealand has requested an urgent meeting with the management of the Lyttelton Port of Christchurch following the latest workplace death at the port. WorkSafe’s acting Chief Executive Brett Murray will meet with the port company’s senior management on Tuesday to discuss health and safety at the Lyttelton Port. WorkSafe yesterday launched an investigation after the death of a worker at the port in an incident involving a scissor lift. Read more

Man dead in workplace incident at Port Lyttelton

28 August, 2014

A man has died following a workplace incident at Port Lyttelton this afternoon. Read more

Fine after worker hurt by inadequately guarded machine

20 August, 2014

Waikato based Industrial Tube Manufacturing Company Limited has been fined $39,375 and ordered to pay reparations of $15,000 over an accident involving a modified machine for shaping steel tubing. Read more