The real cost of a workplace injury
One company’s experience of worker injury, enforcement action from a Government regulator and their efforts to improve their own and others’ work in the glass...
Category : Workplace Safety
Hard hats vs bump caps
By Rod Auton, CEO, Crane Association of New Zealand. SOMETIMES WE forget the little things when we are trying to turn a business strategy into dollars...
What is the fatigue risk in your workplace?
By Janet Brothers, director, Life Care Consultants. FATIGUE IS MORE than feeling tired and drowsy. In a work context, it is a state of mental...
Greg Sheehan: A long hot summer made worse by PPE
By Greg Sheehan, Sheehan’s Transport Assistance WELL, HERE WE go again. A long hot summer made worse by PPE, February 2018 Contractor magazine. Somebody brave...
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 long hot summer made worse by PPE
David Price, the director of D&K Price, is taking a stand on full cover personal protective equipment (PPE) regulations. The following is based on a letter...
Wayne Scott: Bringing together ‘us’ and ‘them’
The Mining Extractives Health and Safety Council’s (MinEx) new chief executive Wayne Scott says he’s a realist when it comes to industry safety compliance. Richard...
Roger McRae: The ConstructSafe Champion
The Construction Safety Council is ramping up its activities, especially the ConstructSafe programme, under its new chairman Roger McRae. Hugh de Lacy catches up with...
H&S is killing us softly
By Greg Sheehan, Sheehan’s Transport Assistance. A few months ago, I celebrated 50 years of working in the road transport industry, so I feel that...
Aggregate matters and concerns
High failure rates for B Grade quarry qualifications are a symptom of wider issues within the quarry industry which it is determined to address as...