Adding to consistent local tourism and fishing vessels, the number of cruise ships visiting Akaroa had increased dramatically following the 2011 earthquakes and existing communications at Akaroa Harbour did not have the capability for increased usage The Environment Canterbury Harbourmaster’s Office is responsible for managing all maritime-related activities that may affect safe vessel navigation on Canterbury’s many waterways.  Continue →

Getting rid of employees is the last thing you want to do, but not doing so could actually hurt your retention Gene Hammett – Inc. Continue →

Passwords are great as long as they keep our accounts safe, but they can also be downright awful If you dare use a weak password for your online banking, you risk losing your cash to a brute-force attack. Continue →

Australia is home to some of the worst workplace bullying in the developed world, ranking sixth highest in a recent study comparing us with 31 European countries, but Researchers at the University of South Australia have come up with a solution Around 10 per cent of Australian employees admit to being bullied at work, but that figure may hide the true extent of the problem, with much antisocial workplace behaviour going unreported and research suggesting up to two-thirds of workers may experience unfair treatment on the job. Continue →

When large building companies fail, many smaller companies and operators often bear the brunt of the collapse, which has happened with last week’s failure of the Stanley Group construction company, says SiteSafe Chief Executive Brett Murray Companies of 5 or under make up half of SiteSafe’s 6000+membership. Continue →

Failures of culture—from big bank Wells Fargo to Volkswagen—have been the single biggest destroyers of value in the last five years, writes Humu Chief Executive Laszlo Bock Every CEO and HR professional knows (or at least says) that culture is a priority, but for far too long management has had only a blunt set of instruments to deal with cultural issues: fire the offensive engineer, swap in new leaders, overhaul the board and hope for the best. Continue →

Buildings occupied by businesses or those for public use must be certified as safe to use by the local council. Continue →

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 →

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 →

A building development company has been fined $100,000 after a retired man was fatally injured when he fell from a mobility scooter on a piece of footpath they had damaged The footpath had been damaged by heavy vehicles during the development of a Papatoetoe housing site. Continue →

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 →

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 →

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner swears by these three simple sentences that make your employees feel supported, and encouraged to improve their performance Tommy Melo – Inc. Continue →

If sticks and stones may break your bones, what will these work-related phrases do? Continue →