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PPE comments from the readership Health & Safety

PPE comments from the readership

Never in the history of this magazine has there been such an overwhelming response to a story. The moment ‘A long hot summer made worse by PPE’, based on comments from David Price the director of D&K Price, making a stand against full cover personal protective equipment (PPE) was published on our website, the comments poured...
A customer view  – the motorist Health & Safety

A customer view  – the motorist

Simon Douglas, the manager of the New Zealand Automobile Association Research Foundation, was a keynote speaker at the 18th annual NZTA/NZIHT conference held late last year. He spoke about research the Foundation has done on driving behaviour in terms of road ‘risk’. These are highlights from his presentation. YOUR CONFERENCE MAKES...
Health and Safety through NEBOSH Health & Safety

Health and Safety through NEBOSH

An ex oil industry worker who arrived in this country with international H&S qualifications, and is now engaged with civil construction, talks about workplace safety opportunities. WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) and the setting up of new regulator WorkSafe in recent years, health and safety...
Learning the ropes Health & Safety

Learning the ropes

Getting stuck up in a Building Maintenance Unit (BMU) on an Auckland high-rise was the catalyst for Victoria Richardson to learn to abseil. ABI KIBBLE explains. VICTORIA RICHARDSON was stuck in a broken-down Building Maintenance Unit high up in the air with someone from an abseil company and they got talking. By the time the extension...
And after all – we are only ordinary men Health & Safety

And after all – we are only ordinary men

By Wayne Scott, CEO, Mining Extractives Health and Safety Council  I PLAY THE SAXOPHONE in my spare time. You may know one of the classic sax tracks is from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album. It’s called ‘Us and Them’. The lyrics are as good as the music, describing ordinary men sent into battle. ‘God only knows...
ConstructSafe – providing powerful information Health & Safety

ConstructSafe – providing powerful information

By Peter Silcock, chief executive, CCNZ. Do you want to ensure that the people working on your sites have entry level health and safety knowledge? If they don’t, would it be useful to know about the gaps in their knowledge so they can get the right training and development? If the answer to either or both of those questions is...
Fulton Hogan & Endometriosis NZ: Working together for women Health & Safety

Fulton Hogan & Endometriosis NZ: Working together for women

This article first appeared in Contractor March 2017. An unlikely relationship was cemented earlier last year when Fulton Hogan, a large company with 80 percent of its 3500 Kiwi staff men, became a sponsor of Endometriosis NZ – a small charity devoted to tackling a painful women’s health issue. By MARY SEARLE BELL. SO WHAT DO...
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