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  • The Safe Side | Issue 60

    This month we report on two recent Maritime New Zealand prosecutions with very different outcomes. The first was against Lyttleton Port Company Limited and resulted in a significant $480,000 fine and a Court ordered Adverse Publicity Order. In contrast, the second went to a trial that ended with a not guilty verdict for the skipper of the charter vessel ‘Enchanter’. We also cover WorkSafe’s media release on the tragic deaths of four farmers in quad bike rollovers in July, and an Industrial Manslaughter conviction in Queensland that led to a massive AU$1.5 million dollar fine for a pool manufacturing company.

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  • The Safe Side | Issue 59

    Company officers are in a unique position to positively influence their organisation’s health and safety performance because they “set the tone” from the top. This month, we look at refreshed guidance released by the Institute of Directors to assist officers in a governance role to exercise their duty of “due diligence” effectively. We also have two articles on recent prosecutions under the Health and Safety at Work Act. One arose after a motorcyclist rode into bungy cords strung across a road for moving stock. The other came about when a worker’s arm was seriously injured in machinery on a mussel harvesting barge. Finally, we look at recent changes for our health and safety regulators with WorkSafe appointing a permanent Chief Executive and three new board members, and Maritime New Zealand taking over responsibility for regulating all of Aotearoa New Zealand’s major ports.

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  • The Safe Side | Issue 58

    In this issue, we cover two significant developments in Aotearoa New Zealand’s health and safety system. Firstly, WorkSafe released a refreshed “back to basics” strategy which explains its role and where it will focus its effort in the coming years. Secondly, the Government announced the start of consultation on its promised review of the Health and Safety at Work Act (HASWA) and regulations. We also report on three recent prosecutions and a new enforceable undertaking (EU). One of the prosecutions and the EU involved serious injuries caused by forklifts striking pedestrians, a further prosecution was for exposure to silica dust at an Australian quarry and the final prosecution arose after a fishing charter vessel ran out of fuel 27 nautical miles off the Gisborne coast.

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