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Refusal: a practicable step

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Refusing unsafe work is not just a right but a legal obligation on all workers, the deputy chair of the WorkSafe New Zealand board told a Workers’ Memorial Day event in Auckland last month. Read more

Directors - walk and listen

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Company directors who wish to get to grips with health and safety need to get out of the boardroom and onto the shop floor – and to listen more than they talk. Read more

Directors’ ideas

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Attendees at the health and safety session were given work to do: each table had to discuss how their boards were anticipating the new Health and Safety at Work Act and come up with an idea for boards to consider. Here is a selection: Read more

Letting things slide

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A spate of giant inflatable slide incidents in the last couple of months has prompted a call for more active supervision of such fun activities. Read more

Risks and rules: attitudes survey

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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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