Keep informed with our health and safety updates, insights, and interviews.
See you at Safeguard | IMPAC health and safety
24 May, 2018
We're excited to see everyone at next week's Safeguard conference on 30 and 31 May and at the New Zealand Workplace Health & Safety Awards on the night of the 30th. Read more
Robinson helicopter ban grows | IMPAC health and safety
15 May, 2018
At the end of last year, following several fatal incidents, the Department of Conservation placed a temporary, and then permanent, ban on staff flying in Robinson helicopters. Read more
$1.4m paid after worker death leads to sentencing | IMPAC health and safety
10 May, 2018
Oceana Gold has been sentenced following the 2016 death of a worker. The mining company was charged under the Health and Safety at Work Act (2015) as it was noted that as a PCBU, they failed to ensure, so far as was reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers. Read more
Government Health and Safety at Work Strategy | IMPAC health and safety
8 May, 2018
The Government’s draft Health and Safety at Work Strategy has been released for public consultation. Read more
Risk descriptions: Communicating risk more effectively | IMPAC health and safety
30 April, 2018
By Dan Davis Read more
WorkSafe: Playing down workplace incidents doesn’t pay | IMPAC health and safety
29 March, 2018
It doesn’t pay to downplay workplace incidents, according to a recent WorkSafe media release. Read more
What’s up with workplace wellbeing? | IMPAC health and safety
14 March, 2018
Workplace wellbeing is something we’re passionate about here at IMPAC. We believe as much emphasis needs to be placed on ‘health’ as ‘safety’. Read more
Health and safety training is needed now more than ever | IMPAC health and safety
9 March, 2018
The recently-released Health and Safety Attitudes and Behaviours Survey found that the number of workers receiving health and safety training has increased across all sectors. Read more