Taking the lead with rural contracting
By the time you read this, hundreds of rural contractors from around the country will have met in four free regional roadshows, explains Andrew Olsen,...
Tag : WorkSafe NZ
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...
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...
A day with a crane driver
Cranes punctuate Queenstown’s skyline as the town revs into overdrive on infrastructure projects to satisfy unprecedented tourism demand. Denise McNabb talks to Smith Cranes’ Queenstown...
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...
Sharpening the H&S focus: managing workplace risk
This article first appeared in Contractor Perspectives 2017. Health and safety should be a core part of any business and not something you do once...
New WorkSafe NZ regulations encourage cloud migration
MATT COBHAM, SITESORTED THE NEW HEALTH and Safety Reform Bill proposes 10 concepts, most of which aren’t new. However, the concepts will be more explicit...