Former All Black suicide prevention educator
Former Maori All Black Slade McFarland is to lead MATES In Construction work with Kainga Ora to reduce NZ suicides. MATES was set up in...
Category : Health & Safety
Water bores and casings
By John Pfahlert, CEO, Water New Zealand THE HAVELOCK NORTH water inquiry highlighted widespread systemic failure in our drinking water system. Water suppliers should now...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...