Displaying items by tag: Health and Safety

Synlait founder and former Purata chief executive Juliet Maclean have teamed up with two former colleagues to create NZ's first technology-based health and safety system for farmers.

The Health and Safety Reform Bill got lots of media coverage about what does, and does not, constitute a high-risk industry.

Dairy Women's Network is seeking to shift members’ ‘can do’ attitude to one of ‘can do safely’, by means of free workshops called ‘Step up to Safety’, from late October. 

The Health and Safety Reform Bill (proposed Act) is expected to come into force later this year.

The Health and Safety Reform Bill grabbed many headlines because of farming activities that are deemed high risk, and those that are not.

The design of an effluent system must ensure the safety of those operating and maintaining it.

Sheep farmers busy with tailing/docking of lambs are being urged to take extra care of their backs.

While the Health and Safety legislation debate raged in Parliament, inspectors from WorkSafe NZ were out talking to farmers. One was Rural News reporter Peter Burke who owns a small ‘life sentence’ block in Horowhenua.

Labour leader Andrew Little says the Government should have sorted out the problems in the new Health and Safety bill during the select committee process and not dropped the changes on Parliament as it did.

Health and safety and the environment will play a bigger part in Beef + Lamb NZ’s proposed mandate, according to chairman James Parsons.