Minimising downtime, ensuring quality and providing maximum safety for employees are particularly important in food and beverage production, processing and automation, writes Andreas Bauer In the food and beverage industry, if the processing of perishable foodstuffs ceases it not only leads to profit losses, but also high costs from waste disposal and recommencing production. Continue →

The Drug Detection Agency (TDDA) has welcomed the report on meth contamination issued by the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Sir Peter Gluckman, saying that accreditation and regulation in the industry were needed “There’s no room for bad actors in safety-sensitive industries when your job is to ensure that people make it home at the end of the day,” The Drug Detection Agency CEO Kirk Hardy insists. Continue →

WorkSafe has accepted yet another enforceable undertaking, further underlining the importance of the process as an alternative to prosecution The latest undertaking was received from fibreboard manufacturing company Dongwha New Zealand Limited, following an incident in December 2016 where a worker’s arm was drawn into a piece of machinery The worker was using a piece of machinery that lays out wood fibres to be turned into fibreboard. Continue →

Eighty-three per cent of employees who are offered opportunities to take on new challenges are more likely to stay with their organization a new report has found Leading US market research company Reportlinker conducted a survey on the office perks that attract and retain employees the most, and its findings hold important lessons for Kiwi employers. Continue →

The International Corporate Health Leadership Council (ICHLC) has released eight corporate health trends paired with ten actionable items to effectively help organisations prepare and support their mobile workforce “Significant changes have impacted the mobile workforce since the Council’s 2014 trend report,” says Professor Robert L. Continue →