Risks and rules: attitudes survey

6 March, 2015

Australian employers in the transport, postal and warehousing sector were found to be much more accepting of risk taking at work than employers in other high-risk sectors, a large-scale survey has found. Read more

WorkSafe: report on progress

12 December, 2014

Nearly half the 117 prosecutions launched by WorkSafe NZ in the year ending June 2014 were against organisations in the manufacturing and construction sectors, according to data published in WorkSafe's 2013-14 annual report. Read more

Ministerial briefing

28 November, 2014

The future of the proposed Safety Star Rating Scheme will be decided early next year, according to a WorkSafe NZ briefing paper prepared for the incoming Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, Michael Woodhouse. Read more

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