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Industrial Safety News

There has never been a more important time than now for Industrial Safety News in print and online.

Most of us in business still have a great deal to learn and apply, so that the people who work for us or alongside us do so secure in the knowledge that we have put all the necessary procedures in place to keep them safe and healthy as well as educate them on how best to keep themselves safe. Industrial Safety News’ mission is to promote workplace health and safety through quality articles that educate readers on just that – what they need to do to keep workers safe and healthy.

Suppliers of health and safety products and services, industry experts and those with regulatory functions help us keep abreast of the latest health and safety developments therefore we always welcome quality editorial that will increase industry knowledge.

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Industrial Safety News is New Zealand’s leading industrial safety magazine, and is published five times per year to provide readers with the very latest news and information that increases their knowledge of safety products and services, regulations and best practices.

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IN THIS ISSUE: SUMMER 2017

  • iSNRisk, crisis and change communication advice
  • Changes afoot for Hazardous substances,
  • A momentous year for health and safety
  • Climbing successfully with ropes and ladders 
  • Improvements to asbestos disease diagnosis 
  • One in five employees a victim of workplace bullying 
  • Resilience key to enjoying jobs and life
  • H&S systems key to staying in business 
  • When your hearing is gone it’s gone forever 

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Access
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Proposed regulations would shrink pool of inspectors

The proposed and delayed Plant, Structures, and Hazardous Work regulations would leave an ever-smaller pool of Mobile Elevated Work Platform (MEWP) inspectors to maintain an increasing number of machines, says Elevating Work Platform Association Chief Executive Rodney Grant There are approximately 18,000 mobile elevating work platforms operating throughout New Zealand, all of which require two inspections per year. Continue →
Compliance
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Health and safety enforcement measures a live wire

When the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) came into force in April 2016, there was much discussion about the new enforcement measures introduced to ensure duty holders complied with their obligations, Graeme Tanner and Joseph Williams note The HSWA signalled a clear legislative intent to ensure duty holders under the HSWA were held accountable where acts or omissions in a workplace caused, or created an undue risk of, harm. Continue →
Environment

 

 

Hazardous Materials & Substances
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AI tech deployed after chemical burn incident

Following a WorkSafe investigation into an incident where an Ecostore worker suffered chemical burns to his eyes, the business is investing over $323,000 into improving its health and safety practices as part of an enforceable undertaking AI technology with real time hazard alerts is central to a new safety commitment WorkSafe New Zealand has accepted from the well-known household brand, Ecostore. Continue →
Health
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Everything you need to know about silicosis

Silicosis is an incurable and debilitating lung disease primarily caused by occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica – early symptoms include breathing difficulties, wheezing and chest tightness, writes Michelle Llamas of ConsumerNotice.org Continue →
Injury
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Company liable for subcontractor’s death

A forestry subcontractor was failed by poor risk management from the two businesses above him, both of which have been sentenced for their inaction 39-year-old Misha Tremel was killed while manually felling trees on a small block at Clevedon in June 2022. Continue →
Management
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The health and safety reforms you may have missed

Obscured by the announcement of a ‘road cone hotline’ were a suite of significant health and safety reforms which a collective of unions say fail to support small businesses, despite others calling it a good result of quality consultation The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions – Te Kauae Kaimahi (NZCTU) and Civil Contractors New Zealand (CCNZ) are both criticising the Government’s focus on a new ‘road cone hotline’, when there have been far more significant changes announced by Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden. Continue →
PPE
Training & Recruitment
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New Zealand introduces its first Fluid Power Engineering Certification

For the first time, New Zealand has a dedicated certification for fluid power engineering, providing new training and career path options to those in the hydraulics and pneumatics industries The Certificate in Fluid Power Engineering Fundamentals (Level 3) approved by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) is the result of sustained effort by several key people in the industry and of a newly formed New Zealand Fluid Power Association. Continue →