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The Safe Side | Issue 68
20/06/2025
New Zealand businesses continue to be prosecuted for the failure to manage health and safety risks that are well known and have widely accepted controls. This month, we report on the sentencings of a farm manager after the quad bike he owned rolled over and killed a worker; and a company whose worker fell 6 metres off a roof without adequate fall protection. We also have articles on WorkSafe’s latest guidance for outdoor activity providers on managing natural hazards and the latest enforceable undertaking accepted by WorkSafe, which again showcases novel technological safety solutions. Finally, we cover the first prosecution for flouting Victoria’s engineered stone ban and look at the latest calls for similar bans in NZ.
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The Safe Side | Issue 67
30/04/2025
In this month’s issue, we cover two sentencings of New Zealand companies for Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) offending. The first sentence resulted in a hefty fine of $420,000 for a large fertiliser company after a worker was drawn into a conveyor belt and died of his injuries. The second arose after a friend of a company director, who was helping out on a voluntary basis, suffered serious leg injuries when five slabs of stone fell on him in a shipping container. We also look at four media releases from the Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety in which proposed amendments to HSWA were announced - although in the absence of further detail, what they might mean for businesses and workers in practice remains unclear.
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The Safe Side | Issue 66
31/03/2025
This month, we cover three prosecutions that resulted from health and safety risk management failures. The first came about after a forestry subcontractor was killed while harvesting trees, and lead to the prosecution of two companies further up the contracting chain. The other two occurred overseas and sadly involved children, one of whom died. We also have articles on both the sentencing of the ex-Chief Executive of Ports of Auckland Limited after a groundbreaking health and safety conviction last year and WorkSafe’s SafePlus free self-assessment tool, which is now available for businesses to download. Finally, in other statutory liability news, we cover an MPI animal welfare prosecution that saw an experienced farmer jailed for over two years.
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