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  • The Safe Side | Issue 68

    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 69

    This month saw the launch of WorkSafe’s digital hotline for reporting concerns about the overuse of road cones. We look at the pilot scheme and the role temporary traffic management and road cones have in keeping the public and workers safe. In addition, we cover the new WorkSafe guidance on managing psychosocial risks and three Australian prosecutions for bullying and harassment of workers. In other statutory liability news, we also have an article about three recent Resource Management Act prosecutions of dairy farmers for the unlawful discharge of diary and other effluent.

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  • The Safe Side | Issue 67

    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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