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

Transdev Auckland wins H& S Award

26 August, 2016

Cliff Hastings, IMPAC's Consulting Practice Leader (third from right) presents the 'Best Significant Health & Safety Initiative by a Large Organisation' award to the team from Transdev Auckland. Read more

Health Strategy Launched

26 August, 2016

WorkSafe’s ten-year strategy to tackle work-related health was launched with some fanfare in Wellington earlier this month, with the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety describing it as an important milestone on the regulator’s journey. Read more

And the winner is.....Fonterra

23 August, 2016

Dairy giant Fonterra has taken overall honours at this year’s New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards for initiatives addressing fatigue in milk tanker drivers and the welfare of contractors on the firm’s major construction projects. Read more

Worker dismissed for not wearing hard hat

27 May, 2016

A meat processing worker was dismissed for serious misconduct because he refused to wear his hard hat and failed to follow a reasonable instruction of his employer to put the hat on. Read more

Safety-law changes spook schools

14 January, 2016

Schools are considering less adventurous camps and others are spending thousands of dollars to audit their health and safety procedures ahead of new regulations. Read more

Samsung reaches partial agreement with sick workers

12 January, 2016

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) " Samsung Electronics reached a partial agreement on workplace safety with sickened workers and their families, nearly a decade after the death of a 22-year-old chip worker from leukemia galvanized concern about conditions in South Korea's semiconductor industry. Read more

Food and beverage wholesaler ordered to pay over $128K after employee fatally injured in forklift incident

22 December, 2015

The tragic consequences of a worker not receiving adequate training in operating a forklift have been highlighted in a District Court sentencing against a food stuffs and beverage wholesaler. Read more

Greymouth rubbish workers strike over health and safety concerns

22 December, 2015

Greymouth rubbish and recycling collection workers have gone on strike amid claims their collection trucks are not road worthy. Read more

New workplace health and safety legislation prove to be a wake-up call

7 December, 2015

An imminent legislative change that will alphat workplace safety regulations is keeping commercial and industrial building owners and property managers on their toes. Read more

Rethinking mental health

30 November, 2015

Rather than thinking about mental health issues as a liability to avoid or fear, it is time to flip that around and think of mental health as an essential resource which drives an organisation's success. Read more