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Crushed Leg Incident Costs Company $370k
Thursday, 3 June 2021, 4:02 pm | Industrial Safety News
It comes as a Hawkes Bay steel plate cutting company was fined following a November 2017 incident in which a worker’s leg was crushed by a package of steel being moved by a gantry crane. The worker’s right leg had to be amputated below the knee as ... More >>
Is Standardised Training The Way Forward?
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 4:03 pm | Industrial Safety News
The programme gives employees access to 60 micro-learning courses, each designed to help them upskill in a specific area. The courses are bite-sized education opportunities, designed to cut through the jargon and focus on specific industry and workplace skills. ... More >>
Why A Pragmatic Approach To Health And Safety Just Makes Sense
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 3:53 pm | Industrial Safety News
This was the problem facing Steve Wilson, General Manager of Lower Hutt commercial signage company, Sign Foundry. “Our health and safety policies and procedures were all written out, but they used to sit in a cupboard and weren’t being used or followed ... More >>
The Future Of On-site Training
Friday, 21 May 2021, 3:53 pm | Industrial Safety News
Championing the shift away from traditional learning environments towards a digitised, real-time knowledge exchange is Brisbane-based tech company HINDSITE Industries. Their knowledge management platform—delivered via wearable, speech-driven technologies—enables ... More >>
Construction Worker Shortages Addressed In New Project
Friday, 21 May 2021, 3:48 pm | Industrial Safety News
One of the biggest challenges facing the construction industry is the shortage of people and skills throughout the sector. This is impacting its capacity to deliver the growing pipeline of construction projects. “Construction, as a sector, is made ... More >>
Why Operations Teams Are Still Needed In An Automated World
Thursday, 13 May 2021, 3:53 pm | Industrial Safety News
Achieving a state where everything is running smoothly is due to the hard work of not just the system operations team, but also teams of technicians and maintenance staff, from both the automation provider, and the client. Having an advanced automated ... More >>
New Classification System For Hazardous Substances
Thursday, 13 May 2021, 3:47 pm | Industrial Safety News
On 30 April 2021, New Zealand adopted a new classification system for hazardous substances under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (HSNO). This new system is the Globally Harmonised System (GHS). The GHS is an international hazard ... More >>
What Are ‘Toolbox Talks’ And Why Are They Important?
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 3:54 pm | Industrial Safety News
Unlike an official safety meeting or training session, a toolbox talk is a shorter, more informal discussion, with a goal to support and reinforce your overall safety program by focusing on a specific safety issue with each talk. By offering a more ... More >>
Experience No Substitute For Risk Management
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 3:47 pm | Industrial Safety News
In March 2019 an employee of Coastwide Flooring Limited was installing carpet in a Greymouth building using a strong organic solvent-based adhesive. The worker had 17 years’ experience in the industry. He was found unresponsive by a co-worker ... More >>
Kicking Off The Financial Year Right
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 3:57 pm | Industrial Safety News
New Zealand’s construction boom means contractors are busier than ever, but throw in the demands of tax time, and running a small business in the construction sector quickly becomes a juggling act, says Fergus job management software founder Dan Pollard. ... More >>
Worker Engagement Brings Health And Safety Benefits
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 3:54 pm | Industrial Safety News
Christchurch-based maker of the Woodsman brand of log fires, W.H Harris, sometimes had issues getting staff to wear the correct PPE, says Operations Manager Mark Streeter. “But rather than go down the track of forcing people to wear equipment they didn’t ... More >>
The Importance Of Hand Safety
Friday, 16 April 2021, 4:00 pm | Industrial Safety News
No matter what industry you are in, hands are by far the most commonly used tool, so how do you protect your team from injuries? If hand safety isn’t one of the first things that comes to mind when you think of workplace safety, you should think ... More >>
Kiwi Company Adapts Sports Gear Technology For Safer PPE
Friday, 16 April 2021, 3:56 pm | Industrial Safety News
New Zealand equipment producer ZERO Height Safety has partnered with twICEme Technology to allow seamless access to vital information through the tap of a smartphone when an emergency occurs. The partnership aims to increase the level of safety for workers ... More >>
Greatest Risks To Businesses In 2021
Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:09 pm | Industrial Safety News
Organizations have reported heightened risks and threats over the past year, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 BCI Horizon Scan Report, sponsored by BSI. Non-occupational disease has found its way to the top of the list of business ... More >>
Are Workers Any Less Efficient At Night?
Thursday, 8 April 2021, 4:05 pm | Industrial Safety News
The early bird does indeed seem to get the worm, as morning people tend to go to bed early enough to get the recommended amount of sleep on standard working days, finds research published online in the journal Occupational & Environmental ... More >>
Worker Falls To His Death After Wire Rope Snaps
Thursday, 1 April 2021, 5:11 pm | Industrial Safety News
Routine inspection and maintenance of the company’s wired edge protection would have saved this worker’s life. In January 2019 the worker was transporting cars using a trailer he leased from Car Haulaways Limited. He loaded a car onto the top ... More >>
The Unseen Risks Of Remote Work
Thursday, 1 April 2021, 5:06 pm | Industrial Safety News
A year on from our first national lockdown, it appears we are working more hours for less money, says Frog Recruitment’s general manager Shannon Barlow. Working longer for less is a hangover from the new way people had to learn to work during ... More >>
Why Gloves Are Not Enough
Thursday, 25 March 2021, 5:05 pm | Industrial Safety News
Hand lacerations are among the most common types of injuries in the workplace, and cut-resistant gloves are a great way to prevent accidental cuts and abrasions to fingers and hands. They must be well-fitting, properly maintained, and appropriately ... More >>
City Rail Link Incident Highlights Risk Of Buried Power Cables
Thursday, 25 March 2021, 4:58 pm | Industrial Safety News
In July 2020, a worker on the City Rail Link project in Auckland’s CBD hammered a piece of reinforcement rod into a former public footpath area. The rod connected with an underground 11kv electrical cable, and smoke started rising from the area ... More >>
Gas Explosion Leaves Six Seriously Injured
Friday, 15 January 2021, 5:47 pm | Industrial Safety News
All work with gas must be done by the book – because when things go wrong, the consequences can be grave, says WorkSafe. Certifying gasfitter Gregory John Smith was repairing a fireplace at a home in Christchurch in July 2019. As part of the ... More >>
