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Business Convicted After Worker’s Fingers Crushed
Sunday, 14 November 2021, 7:05 pm | Industrial Safety News
A company and its director have been dealt hefty fines and reparation costs following an incident with an unsafe metal press that ended in amputation. WorkSafe is warning company directors that if they are not making sure their company’s operations are ... More >>
Construction Training Programme Expands To Manawatū
Saturday, 6 November 2021, 9:36 pm | Industrial Safety News
The course begins on 1 November. The attendees are employed by a range of infrastructure companies from the start of the six-week course, and will begin their infrastructure careers with these companies on graduating. Fulton Hogan is leading this project ... More >>
Vaccine Mandates Confirmed – Is Your Business Safe?
Saturday, 6 November 2021, 9:32 pm | Industrial Safety News
Currently, only high-risk workplaces and those in customer-facing roles will be required to have both doses of the vaccine. However, industry leaders are pushing for the Government to mandate vaccines in most other sectors. Registered Master Builders ... More >>
How To Survive As A Modern-day Business
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 5:38 pm | Industrial Safety News
Paper-based systems and analogue machines are still common within the industrial sectors, but writing on a piece of paper just isn’t adequate in today’s environment, says SYSPRO Chief Product Officer, Paulo De Matos. With the need for continued innovation ... More >>
Rapid Covid Tests Finally Get The Go-ahead
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 5:35 pm | Industrial Safety News
Rapid antigen testing, which can detect the virus in 15 minutes, has been given the green light more than a year after the Government’s own advisors called it a priority. The tests will be first rolled out across Auckland hospitals and for ... More >>
New Technology Set To Reduce Construction Incidents
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 8:38 pm | Industrial Safety News
A five-company alliance in North America are bringing together best-in-class technologies and risk knowledge to provide construction managers with a 360-degree view of construction sites and real-time alerts regarding workers’ adherence to safety regulations. ... More >>
Six Strategies To Manage Cash Flow During COVID-19
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 8:36 pm | Industrial Safety News
Lockdowns and alert level restrictions have put the squeeze on many small businesses – Prospa offers some advice that could help. In such uncertain times, many small business owners are already working hard to do what they can to protect their cash ... More >>
Priming Your Business For Post-lockdown Recovery
Friday, 1 October 2021, 5:41 pm | Industrial Safety News
With many small businesses scaled back or closed entirely due to Covid restrictions, savvy business owners reveal their first-hand tips for how they’re using this time to position their business for the future. Do things you’ve never had the time ... More >>
‘Knot And Tuck’ Technique Offers Better Protection
Friday, 1 October 2021, 5:37 pm | Industrial Safety News
Experts are urging the Ministry of Health to improve its mask wearing guidelines, calling current practices sub-optimal for reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission. A new rapid evidence brief Improving mask use to stop Covid-19 transmission from ... More >>
Vaccine Availability And Requirements – What You Need To Know
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 4:30 pm | Industrial Safety News
Civil Contractors New Zealand answers some of the important questions companies in the construction industry are asking. Want to know about priority access to vaccines for essential workers? Need answers on whether an employer can require workers to ... More >>
‘No Jab No Job’ Brings Out Riot Police – Shuts Down Construction
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 4:27 pm | Industrial Safety News
The Victorian government has announced a two-week shutdown of the construction industry after a protest against mandatory vaccines for workers in the sector became violent. The Guardian newspaper says the closure across metropolitan Melbourne, Geelong, the ... More >>
Your Responsibilities For Staff Working From Home
Thursday, 16 September 2021, 4:20 pm | Industrial Safety News
It is a PCBU’s duty to ensure the health and safety of workers, including when they work remotely, WorkSafe warns. Since the Covid pandemic, it has become more common for people to work from home. At home, workers can be exposed to different ... More >>
582 Lockdown Breaches Reported To WorkSafe
Thursday, 16 September 2021, 4:12 pm | Industrial Safety News
Almost half of the complaints actioned by WorkSafe were allegations of businesses opening when they potentially should not have been under Covid-19 Alert Level restrictions. By the morning of Friday 3 September, WorkSafe inspectors had completed 508 COVID-19 ... More >>
Toxic Fumigant To Be Phased Out By 2033
Thursday, 2 September 2021, 4:45 pm | Industrial Safety News
The EPA is calling for a total ban on the ozone-depleting gas, methyl bromide, which is used increasingly in New Zealand to kill pests from trade cargo. Methyl bromide is a toxic and ozone-depleting substance, which India and China require to be used ... More >>
How To Prepare For Alert Level 3
Thursday, 2 September 2021, 4:32 pm | Industrial Safety News
The Covid-19 Delta variant is more infectious than previous strains – therefore, some additional controls for businesses are now required. At Alert Level 3, work should be done remotely where possible. Where this is not possible, on-site work ... More >>
Remote Working Putting Organisations At Risk Of Ransomware
Thursday, 26 August 2021, 10:36 pm | Industrial Safety News
The Government is urging Kiwi organisations to tighten up the way they enable remote working for staff to avoid the growing risk of cyber attacks. Government cyber security agency, CERT NZ says the majority of ransomware attacks occur through poorly configured ... More >>
Trades And Construction Protocols At Alert Level 4
Thursday, 26 August 2021, 10:31 pm | Industrial Safety News
Building and construction work that meets the Government definition of an essential service can continue under COVID-19 restrictions, following CHASNZ’s latest health and safety guidance. COVID-19 Alert Level 4 is restricted to essential services only. ... More >>
What Is Workplace Harassment And How To Prevent It
Thursday, 19 August 2021, 4:45 pm | Industrial Safety News
Sexual harassment is unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature which makes a person feel offended, humiliated or intimidated, where that reaction is reasonable in the circumstances. Sexual harassment can happen at a worker’s usual workplace or in other places where ... More >>
Technology Self Sufficiency Déjà Vu?
Thursday, 19 August 2021, 4:21 pm | Industrial Safety News
New Zealand could be forgetting a hard-earned lesson about national self-sufficiency. The uncanny parallel between our wartime experience of the difficulty in ensuring vital supplies reached us from thousands of miles away with the present major disruption ... More >>
Infrastructure Skills Centre Offers 'Work Experience For A Lifetime'
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 4:13 pm | Industrial Safety News
The civil construction and infrastructure industry has teamed up with government, industry bodies and employers to help meet New Zealand’s infrastructural skills challenge. The Infrastructure Skills Centre has been developed jointly by Fulton ... More >>
