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Subcontractors Are Entitled To Health And Safety Too
Monday, 28 November 2022, 10:25 am | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe New Zealand says workers deserve better than to continue dying on the job in falls from height. A Canterbury business, Dan’s Renovations, has been sentenced for health and safety failings over the death of a subcontractor in February 2021. ... More >>
More Must Be Done To Manage Asbestos Risks
Friday, 25 November 2022, 1:38 pm | WorkSafe NZ
Three organisations dedicated to reducing and eliminating asbestos exposure are calling on businesses and tradies to do better and keep themselves, their workers and others safe as Asbestos Awareness Week ends. WorkSafe, the New Zealand Demolition ... More >>
Modified Machine Created Risk That Killed Worker
Monday, 14 November 2022, 1:34 pm | WorkSafe NZ
A Manawatū factory worker’s death underscores the importance of carrying out a dedicated risk assessment before modifying machinery in a workplace. 47-year-old Dwayne Summers died after being trapped and crushed, while using a meal bagging machine ... More >>
“Use Common Sense” A Poor Approach To Health And Safety
Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 7:19 pm | WorkSafe NZ
Two agricultural companies in Taranaki have been taken to task over ineffective workplace traffic safety, after their worker was knocked unconscious by a moving vehicle. In August 2020 the worker was hit from behind and collected by the bucket ... More >>
Sentencing Sends A Message To Installers
Thursday, 3 November 2022, 2:53 pm | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe New Zealand has prosecuted a business for failing to play its part before a worker suffered significant injuries on the job in a fall from height. The 54-year-old worker was replacing a roof at Auckland’s Glenfield Intermediate School in mid-January ... More >>
Enforceable Undertaking Aims To Improve Site Safety
Tuesday, 1 November 2022, 6:08 am | WorkSafe NZ
1 November 2022 WorkSafe New Zealand has accepted an enforceable undertaking in response to an avoidable death at a Waikato landfill site. 60-year-old truck driver Gratten Layne was standing at the rear of his truck, when he was struck and killed ... More >>
Fertiliser “white Out” Death A Cautionary Tale For Agriculture Sector
Wednesday, 7 September 2022, 4:41 pm | WorkSafe NZ
A Bay of Plenty company has been sentenced for its role in sending a dense cloud of lime dust across a motorway, causing a multi-vehicle crash which killed a driver. Wealleans Bay of Plenty Limited was spreading the lime at a dairy farm next to the ... More >>
High Harm In Construction Needs Renewed Focus
Friday, 2 September 2022, 6:29 am | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe NZ, Construction Health and Safety NZ (CHASNZ) and the Council of Trade Unions (CTU) are calling for a renewed focus on construction health and safety after a number of serious incidents recently. “Despite sustained effort to reduce harm ... More >>
Mammoth Slide Operator Fails To Learn From Past Mistakes
Monday, 29 August 2022, 3:26 pm | WorkSafe NZ
Children have again been put in extreme danger by the operators of an inflatable slide who showed little regard for health and safety. JTK Trustee Limited (trading as Fun Solutions) allowed its mammoth slide to become overloaded and collapse at ... More >>
Child’s Death Prompts Tow Gear Warning To Businesses
Monday, 1 August 2022, 10:41 am | WorkSafe NZ
The death of a nine-year-old girl in a Northland traffic crash has been traced back to a badly worn down towball and coupling on a trailer used by a local trucking business. The trailer’s safety chain failed, disconnecting it from the truck towing it in ... More >>
Liquidation No Escape From Health And Safety Accountability
Thursday, 28 July 2022, 1:49 pm | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe New Zealand has held an Auckland businessman liable for failures that led to the death of a subcontractor, who fell from the roof of a house while spray painting. Hon Sang Cheuk was the sole director of DMJ Painters Limited, which hired the painter ... More >>
“I’m Not Their Mother” No Excuse For Lax Health And Safety
Monday, 18 July 2022, 10:46 am | WorkSafe NZ
A Kaikoura employer who didn’t provide appropriate eye protection has been sentenced for failings that cost a young worker his vision in one eye. Daniel Anderson, an agricultural fencing sole trader, had a 17-year-old worker who was chiselling when ... More >>
Taranaki Meatworks Death A Lesson In 24-hour Health And Safety
Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 11:03 am | WorkSafe NZ
The early morning death of a Taranaki cleaner has prompted a WorkSafe New Zealand reminder for businesses to think around the clock when it comes to worker safety. 74-year-old Robin Killeen died doing cleaning work in December 2019 at ... More >>
Gross Negligence Caused Toxic Gas Death
Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 10:16 am | WorkSafe NZ
A litany of health and safety failings has been laid bare in the Wellington District Court, where Waste Management has been sentenced for the chemical poisoning of a worker. Jim Gideon died in August 2017, after being overcome by hydrogen sulphide ... More >>
Enforceable Undertakings Aim To Improve Cycling Safety
Friday, 27 May 2022, 6:10 pm | WorkSafe NZ
Two companies whose alleged inadequate health and safety processes resulted in the death of a Christchurch cyclist in 2019 have committed to an enforceable undertaking to ensure it doesn’t happen again. On 30 October 2019 Fyfa Campbell Dawson was ... More >>
Egg Company Fined After Worker Severs Thumb
Monday, 23 May 2022, 4:18 pm | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe New Zealand is reminding businesses and organisations to consider the full extent of their operations and all people who might be harmed as a result. Mainland Poultry Limited was sentenced today in the Papakura District Court, after a worker’s ... More >>
Charter Company Sentenced Over Whakaari/White Island Failings
Friday, 1 April 2022, 9:36 am | WorkSafe NZ
A charter company has been sentenced for health and safety failings in relation to the Whakaari/White Island eruption. WorkSafe New Zealand carried out its largest ever investigation into the circumstances of tourists and workers being on the island ... More >>
Don’t Cut Corners When Caring For Disabled People – WorkSafe NZ
Friday, 25 February 2022, 3:07 pm | WorkSafe NZ
Disability care providers do not need to sacrifice the dignity of those they care for to manage health and safety, WorkSafe New Zealand says. Last year the service arm of the IHC New Zealand Incorporated, IDEA Services Limited, was sentenced after ... More >>
Businesses Must Assess The Capabilities Of Their Workers In A Safe And Controlled Environment
Friday, 11 February 2022, 10:19 am | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe New Zealand is reminding businesses they must assess the capabilities of their workers in a safe and controlled environment after those responsible for a life-altering incident which left a teenage girl paraplegic were sentenced in the ... More >>
Most Businesses Doing The Right Thing Under COVID-19
Thursday, 27 January 2022, 4:29 pm | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe New Zealand is thanking businesses who are doing the right thing as we reach eight weeks under the COVID-19 Protection Framework. “To the businesses who have looked at the rules and made sure they are doing what’s needed to keep New ... More >>
