On Your Behalf: Keepng healthy and safe during vintage 2024
The new year signals with the hum of activity ramping up on the vineyard and in the winery, as vintage 2024 gets underway.
Health and safety is an important part of any business – it’s the right thing to do by your workers, and you also have obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA).
How do I manage health and safety in my business?
Identify ways to manage risks
Make health and safety an everyday activity
What do I have to do?
Health and safety does not need to be complicated. Here are the basics, you must:
Why should I?
Regardless of your legal obligations, maintaining a healthy and safe workplace is extremely beneficial. An Australian study found that healthy employees were:
More information is available at wellplace.nz
What if something goes wrong?
If, despite your best efforts, something has gone wrong then it is important to assess what happened and see whether there are steps you can take to stop it from happening again. In some circumstances you may have a legal duty to notify WorkSafe. More information is available at worksafe.govt.nz/notify-worksafe
More information
New Zealand Winegrowers (NZW) has worked with WorkSafe and ACC to provide tools, templates, practical information and resources to help your vineyard and winery build a healthy and safe place to work, such as the Working Well guide, a table of risks for vineyard and winery and checklists. These are available on NZW’s member website (under Advocacy, Health and Safety). WorkSafe also has extensive resources on their website at worksafe.govt.nz.
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