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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

Forestry death an avoidable tragedy

13 August, 2014

A logging company director, Major Nelson, has been fined $35,000 and ordered to pay $15,000 in reparation over the death of a worker who was killed by a falling tree. Read more

Achieving powerful change

25 July, 2014

A series of "watershed incidents" in which workers died forced UK energy company Scottish Power to "radically shake up" its health and safety operations, the company's director Doug Wilson told the Electricity Engineers' Association conference in Auckland last month. Read more