Displaying items by tag: Health and Safety

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.

Federated Farmers says the farming sector has been unable to effectively address quad bike safety.

WorkSafe New Zealand is calling on farmers to consider how vehicles move inside their barns and sheds, following a sentencing for a death at one of South Canterbury’s biggest agribusinesses.

Following a sentencing for a death at a South Canterbury agribusiness, WorkSafe New Zealand is calling on farmers to consider how vehicles move inside their barns and sheds.

As New Zealand enters the summer months, rural insurer FMG is reminding farmers and growers to take extra care with a new campaign.

WorkSafe is recommending the dairy industry reassess its use of slide pulsators, following a recent death in a Waikato milking shed.

Farmers are hoping for a respite from complex national health and safety laws, under review by the Coalition Government.

NZW is assisting Horticulture New Zealand with an ACC funded project looking at ways to improve health and safety across horticulture and viticulture.

A Kaikoura employer who didn’t provide appropriate eye protection has been sentenced for failings that cost a young worker his vision in one eye.

According to numbers published by ACC, more than 60 farm-related injuries are reported every day, leaving much room for improvement.