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Helping KiwiHarvest help Kiwis
Since November 2019 we have been working with KiwiHarvest to provide a registration solution for their premises. KiwiHarvest collects quality surplus fresh food from food growers, manufacturers, wholesalers and retail food businesses. This looks like 400kg of...
How do you manage a reception without a receptionist? Part 1: ding dong!
For a lot of companies there just isn’t space in their office for a specific reception area, let alone the resources to have a person dedicated to working there. But they still have visitors coming in and they need to be welcomed. That’s easy, until the person has a...
Don’t be a Bernie – make sure your data is secure
Ouch! You know that sinking feeling in your stomach when something goes really really bad? I bet that's exactly how Ministry for Culture and Heritage chief executive Bernadette Cavanagh felt when she realised that hundreds of personal documents were available on an...
How to encourage sick workers to stay home and recover
The days may be getting longer, but winter still has many of us in it's grips with those late season colds. While it was a terrible year for the flu with four times as many Aucklanders suffering from the flu as normal, Kiwis are known for their stubbornness and...
Enforceable Undertaken and technology combine to create real safety improvements
Air conditioning company Airtech has developed a safety app and is making a video in lieu of punishment after two of its workers became seriously ill from carbon monoxide poisoning. Brian Stokes reckons paying for health and safety advice is a “ripoff”. The owner of...
You can’t contract out of H&S duties – where one customer got it wrong
Recently while talking to a customer they said "we don't sign in contractors because the building owners have engaged them." Unfortunately, as a PCBU you're not able to sidestep responsibility for anyone on your premises. WorkSafe New Zealand have just released a new...
Australian work safety law review to recommend new industrial manslaughter laws
An independent review of national workplace safety laws is expected to recommend a new offence of industrial manslaughter to make employers liable for gross negligence of their workers. Marie Boland, former executive director of SafeWork South Australia, who led the...
Health & safety: Top predicted challenges for 2019
January has slipped by already, but many businesses will be revisiting their health and safety controls and reminding workers about how to work safely in all the tasks they are completing. Managers with a strategic focus will also be asking themselves what they can...
WorkSafe boss: Workplace deaths down, but not enough
The number of workplace deaths dropped last year but the government's safety agency says it's still too high. Forty two workers died in accidents in 2018, down from 50 in 2017 and in 2016. The agriculture sector had the highest number with 16 people killed on farms,...
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