Displaying items by tag: Health and Safety
Farmer health and safety app under development
Synlait founder and former Purata chief executive Juliet Maclean have teamed up with two former colleagues to create NZ's first technology-based health and safety system for farmers.
Workplace safety is for everyone
The Health and Safety Reform Bill got lots of media coverage about what does, and does not, constitute a high-risk industry.
Safety workshops
Dairy Women's Network is seeking to shift members’ ‘can do’ attitude to one of ‘can do safely’, by means of free workshops called ‘Step up to Safety’, from late October.
Director’s new due diligence duty
Farmers’ will do their bit
The Health and Safety Reform Bill grabbed many headlines because of farming activities that are deemed high risk, and those that are not.
Safety is paramount
Watch your back this spring
New H&S rules not so scary...
While the Health and Safety legislation debate raged in Parliament, inspectors from WorkSafe NZ were out talking to farmers. One was Rural News reporter Peter Burke who owns a small ‘life sentence’ block in Horowhenua.
Govt angers Andy
Labour leader Andrew Little says the Government should have sorted out the problems in the new Health and Safety bill during the select committee process and not dropped the changes on Parliament as it did.
Beef + Lamb to beef up H&S efforts
Health and safety and the environment will play a bigger part in Beef + Lamb NZ’s proposed mandate, according to chairman James Parsons.