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Tourism forecasts show long term outlook is positive

Tuesday, 20 August 2013, 12:29 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

The New Zealand Tourism Sector Outlook report, released today by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment shows that the long term outlook for the tourism sector is positive. Growth in spending is forecast to come from countries such as ... More >>

Roof fall costs house moving company

Monday, 19 August 2013, 3:04 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

The Housemovers (Rotorua) Limited has been fined $54,000 and has to pay the victim $40,000 after a worker was seriously injured when he fell from the icy roof of a school building he was moving in July 2012. More >>

Worker loses fingertip in preventable accident

Thursday, 15 August 2013, 1:43 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

A packaging accident in November last year in which a worker lost the tip of one finger and had another surgically repaired has cost her employer a fine of $20,000 and reparations of $5000. More >>

Carter Holt Harvey Porirua fine after worker injured in fall

Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 4:49 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Carter Holt Harvey has been fined $33,000 and ordered to pay the victim $12,000 in reparations after he fell through the eaves of its Carters building supplies store in Porirua in November last year. More >>

Visitor spend remains constant

Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 12:47 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Spending by visitors to New Zealand has remained fairly constant over the last year at $5.5 billion, according to the International Visitor Survey released today by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. More >>

Steel company fined

Friday, 2 August 2013, 5:27 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Lower Hutt steel manufacturer Kiwi Steel has been fined $52,000 and ordered to pay reparations of $15,000 to the victim after a worker had three fingers amputated in an accident on 12 December last year. More >>

MBIE comment on NZDF judgment

Friday, 2 August 2013, 2:08 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

There are some very important messages in Judge O’Driscoll’s judgment today according to the GM Investigations Brett Murray. “His findings of systemic omissions by the NZDF and NZDF’s ‘high culpability’ because of those omissions strongly support ... More >>

EWRB brings prosecutions against unlicensed workers

Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 10:56 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Four unregistered people have been prosecuted within the past month, following separate investigations by the Electrical Workers Registration Board (EWRB). More >>

Solid Energy fined over miner’s serious injury

Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 8:47 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Failing to protect a miner from a large block of falling coal at Solid Energy’s Spring Creek mine in July last year has cost the company a fine of $71,283.56 and reparations to the victim of $46,000. More >>

Acting Chief Executive-Designate for WorkSafe NZ announced

Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 12:22 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Acting Chief Executive, Greg Patchell, is pleased to announce the appointment of Geoffrey Podger as the Acting Chief Executive-Designate for WorkSafe New Zealand. More >>

Carterton wood products manufacturer fined

Thursday, 25 July 2013, 5:09 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Juken New Zealand Limited has been fined $33,000 and ordered to pay reparations to the victim of $5000 following a serious injury accident at its Carterton plant. More >>

Defence Force convicted over death of soldier

Thursday, 25 July 2013, 5:00 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

25 July 2013 Defence Force convicted over death of soldier The New Zealand Defence Force was today convicted for its role in the drowning death of Private Michael Ross during a training accident on Lake Moawhango near Waiouru in September last year. ... More >>

Forestry industry must improve safety commitment

Friday, 19 July 2013, 10:57 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

The whole forestry industry has to step up its commitment to worker safety according to the Health and Safety Group of the Ministry. “The death this morning is the sixth this year – that is an awful toll and its effects spread through communities, ... More >>

Online job vacancies fall in June

Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 10:19 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Online job vacancies decreased in June following an increase in May, according to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s latest Jobs Online report. More >>

Scaffolding company fined for safety failures

Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 2:36 pm | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Failing to erect safe scaffolding has cost an Auckland scaffolding company a $20,000 fine and $7000 reparation to the victim. Titirangi Scaffolding Limited pleaded guilty in the Waitakere District Court last week to one charge of failing to install or ... More >>

Information and Communications Technology Report

Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 9:04 am | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

The Information and Communications Technology Report takes an in-depth look into how New Zealand’s ICT sector is performing. It focuses particularly on the information technology services sub-sector, which has achieved export growth of 10 per cent per ... More >>