Displaying items by tag: Health and Safety

WorkSafe has launched a myth-busting series taking aim at the top 10 tall tales doing the rounds about improving health and safety on New Zealand farms.

A farm manager has been awarded reparations of $50,000 after a 2012 quad bike crash at work.

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.