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

Success in speaking up | IMPAC health and safety

26 July, 2018

Is an organisational culture which encourages people to speak up when they see something that isn’t right the number one success factor in health and safety? Read more

Family violence has no business at work | IMPAC health and safety

24 July, 2018

The New Zealand Human Rights Commission has combined forces with some of the country’s largest employers to publish a model workplace policy on family violence. Read more

What makes a good health and safety leader? | IMPAC health and safety

23 July, 2018

Nicole Rosie, WorkSafe chief executive, spoke about leadership and behaviour at the Safeguard conference. Read more

Employers need to monitor driver fatigue | IMPAC health and safety

18 July, 2018

Following the death of a worker who likely fell asleep at the wheel after working 197.25 hours in a fortnight, employers are strongly encouraged to have a fatigue management programme in place. Read more

Are you Good4Work? | IMPAC health and safety

17 July, 2018

Good4Work is a free online workplace wellbeing tool. It’s been designed for small to medium-sized workplaces and those just getting started with workplace wellbeing. Read more

What’s mental health worth? | IMPAC health and safety

13 July, 2018

Last month, the New South Wales Government announced a $55 million investment in workplace mental health initiatives. Read more

How are we monitoring health and safety? | IMPAC health and safety

11 July, 2018

Does the question of meaningfully monitoring and reporting on health and safety performance remain problematic for many businesses? Francois Barton, executive director of the Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum, told Safeguard it does. Read more

Workers want evidence of safety | IMPAC health and safety

10 July, 2018

Dr Andrew Rae told the 2018 Safeguard conference that safety systems can actually reduce trust and undermine health and safety engagement. Read more

Don’t sound this alarm | IMPAC health and safety

6 July, 2018

A recent Consumer NZ smoke alarm test found that ionisation-type smoke alarms perform poorly. So poorly, in fact, that the watchdog called for retailers to pull them from their shelves. Read more

Concrete and confined spaces | IMPAC health and safety

3 July, 2018

This article was originally published in Concrete NZ’s Readymix News. Read more