Displaying items by tag: Health and Safety
Face up to the facts
Farmers must accept individual responsibility for the industry’s poor health and safety record, says an industry health and safety leader.
Stop that ticking time bomb!
Proper cows!
Fine, reparation for worker’s death
A Wellsford farmer was fined $70,000 and ordered to pay $130,000 in reparation for the death of a worker driving a tractor.
Fire warnings for farmers
The response to a Northland burn-off that got out of control cost $20,000 to $50,000, involving two helicopters and volunteers from four local areas.
Keeping safety simple
Pond drowning shocks industry
Federated Farmers is extending its “deepest sympathy” to the family of a four-year-old boy found dead in a farm effluent pond near Harihari in south Westland.
Don’t let them bring home your corpse
When the Health and Safety at Work Act (HASWA) came into force two years ago there were misgivings and nervousness in the rural sector.
The danger of long hours
It was a headline that should remind all of us about the risks of asking our staff or ourselves to work very long hours.
Good health & safety is good business
The steps that lead to good business are the same as those that lead to good health and safety practices, says Al McCone, sector leader for agriculture at WorkSafe New Zealand.