Drug survey
OPINION: New national data from The Drug Detection Agency (TDDA), a leading workplace drug tester, shows methamphetamine (meth) use is growing and making up a disproportionate share of nonnegative workplace drug test results.
A farm manager has been awarded reparations of $50,000 after a 2012 quad bike crash at work.
His employers were fined $20,000 for failing to keep him safe at work.
The farm manager broke his neck and sustained permanent brain damage when his quad bike hit a large tree while he was rounding up his dogs, WorkSafe NZ has reported. He was not wearing a helmet, although one had been purchased for the farm.
He was in an induced coma for two weeks.
The farm owners, Karen Anne McLanachan and Kenneth Rae McLanachan, were sentenced on December 14 in the Gisborne District Court under the Health and Safety in Employment Act for failing to take all practicable steps to ensure the safety of their employee.
The sentencing judge, Judge Collin, said the McLanachan's key failure was not having hazard identification or controls in place. He stated that it was "as obvious as night follows day" that had the defendants had a health and safety plan in place, then it would have followed that there would have been a clear direction that no one was to get on the quad bike without a helmet.
A 2014 investigation by WorkSafe health and safety inspectors could not determine why the bike collided with the tree.
Newly elected Federated Farmers meat and wool group chair Richard Dawkins says he will continue the great work done his predecessor Toby Williams.
Hosted by ginger dynamo Te Radar, the Fieldays Innovation Award Winners Event put the spotlight on the agricultural industry's most promising ideas.
According to DairyNZ's latest Econ Tracker update, there has been a rise in the forecast breakeven milk price for the 2025/26 season.
Despite the rain and a liberal coating of mud, engines roared, and the 50th Fieldays Tractor Pull Competition drew crowds of spectators across the four days of the annual event.
Nationwide rural wellbeing programme, Farmstrong recently celebrated its tenth birthday at Fieldays with an event attended by ambassador Sam Whitelock, Farmers Mutual Group (FMG), Farmstrong partners, and government Ministers.
Six industry organisations, including DairyNZ and the Dairy Companies Association (DCANZ) have signed an agreement with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) to prepare the country for a potential foot and mouth outbreak.
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