Preparing for emergencies deep underground
Image: Fire & Emergency rescue an injured worker in a tunnel. In September last year, the emergency sirens on Watercare’s Central Interceptor project sounded the...
Category : Health & Safety
Meth spike a real worksite risk
Glenn Dobson, CEO of The Drug Detection Agency, writes that something has changed in our workplaces, and it’s not good. TDDA’s drug and alcohol screening...
Reviewing the new standards
In their review of NZS 3917:2013, Brendan Cash (Partner) and Miles Rout (Solicitor) in Dentons’ Major Projects and Construction team, review the key proposed changes...
Health and safety conference in Christchurch
The use of BIM (Building Information Modelling) in construction has doubled in the last six years and has been mandated for all government projects greater...
Former All Black suicide prevention educator
by Drew Padgett
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...
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...
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...