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Hydraulink has more than 70 years of industry experience and provides a diverse range of hydraulic hose, fittings, components and 24/7 services to a wide range of businesses across New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific Mining giant Rio Tinto is the latest Aussie company to enjoy the success Hydraulink’s engineers’ joystick control which enhances safety and efficiency . Continue →
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Alto Packaging Limited was fined $250,000 and ordered to pay reparation of $32,500 after a worker’s fingers were caught in a machine and amputated, despite WorkSafe having issued the company several notices in relation to machine guarding since 2014 Following the Octorber 2017 incident, WorkSafe’s investigation found the machine was not adequately safeguarded, which allowed the worker to access counter-rotating rollers in the machine. Continue →
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Despite focussing on contractor management and the overlapping duties that exist between contracting PCBUs, there has been little guidance released by WorkSafe about how PCBUs should approach the management of contractors and coordinate activities under the HSWA – until now By Sarah-Lee Stead, Special Counsel, and Richard Monigatti, Associate, at Kensington Swan from the specialist Health and Safety team For a long time, WorkSafe has focussed on the management of contractors at a workplace. Continue →
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4 Hippos Farm Limited and its director were sentenced after a worker received significant crush injuries and lacerations to his hand while using a wood splitter, who was then told to lie about the incident during WorkSafe’s investigation 4 Hippos Farm Limited was convicted on a Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) charge for failing to ensure the wood splitter he was using did not pose a risk of serious injury to the worker. Continue →
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Cold weather can lead to more injuries as it affects decision-making and leads to fatigue, with people taking shortcuts to finish the job to get back where it’s warm which can cause injuries or damage to equipment and the work site Christchurch Site Safe safety advisor Trudy Hodge knows all about working in chilly conditions. Continue →
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The Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation’s trades experience programme for Year 12 and 13 students will provide a seamless transition into trades-based vocations Tavita Nu’u was the first student to be placed in the programme, which is a collaboration between the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO), Switched On and Hillmorton High School. Continue →
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The work Downer has completed as part of its enforceable undertaking shows how the process works as a regulatory tool which benefits the victim, the workplace, the sector and the community, says WorkSafe Acting Chief Executive Mike Hargreaves On 12 May 2016, a worker providing services to Downer New Zealand Limited was working on a bridge where he was cutting bolts off the posts from below the bridge using a portable angle grinder. Continue →
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There have been two recent incidents in which a truck came into contact with another queuing dump truck in a loading zone, highlighting the importance for rules and procedures to be in place when operating heavy machinery Incident One The excavator was pulling a hanging wall removing the waste off the top of the ore. Continue →
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As New Zealand’s Baby Boomer generation gradually retires from the workforce, their exit poses a knowledge and experience vacuum that is expected to contribute significantly to skills shortages across the country New Zealand’s population is steadily ageing, with the number of people aged 65 and over expected to increase by 77% to over 1.2 million by 2036. Continue →
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Over the past 25 years, I have helped thousands of small to medium business owners learn how to hire smarter and more efficiently, and if I am being completely honest here, it took me another ten years before that to learn the ins and outs of finding and hiring qualified team members, says Inc columnist David Finkel   The biggest mistake that I did early on, and I see other business owners do it all the time, has to do with starting off the hiring process by creating a generic job description. Continue →
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Companies cannot be complacent about working from heights, says WorkSafe, after a worker died as a result of injuries sustained in a fall at CentrePort in Wellington CentrePort Limited was sentenced and fined $506,048 at the Wellington District Court today following the January 2017 incident at the company’s container assessment and repair facility. Continue →
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Machine guarding failures in the meat processing industry are continuing to cause life-changing injuries to workers How it should be done The Alliance Group Limited was fined $332,000 and paid reparations late last year after an incident where an inexperienced worker’s hand was amputated in a piece of machinery in March 2017. Continue →
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