Displaying items by tag: Health and Safety
Learning care from Covid-19
The Covid crisis has helped sharpen focus on employee wellbeing, says a wine industry health and safety consultant.
Check your fuel tanks, farmers
Farmers are being warned to check their fuel tanks following a fuel tanker driver being seriously injured on a farm.
Poor communication led to crushing of migrant worker — WorkSafe
A dairy farming company has been fined $281,250 after a migrant worker was crushed by a trailer.
Helping comply with safety
With on-farm safety being a real challenge, especially for employers, the Smart HS approach might offer some answers.
Helping comply with safety
With on-farm safety being a real challenge, especially for employers, the Smart HS approach might offer some answers.
Safety mindset must change
WorkSafe NZ is calling on farmers and other rural businesses to treat health and safety as more than a compliance issue.
Lighter, lower-cost safety device for quads
Ag-Tech Industries has added a lighter, lower-cost item to its QuadGuard range of crush protection devices.
Heads up on a good hat
Quad safety is back in the news in Australia, where the Government has ruled that rollover protection will be mandatory within 24 months.
Shonky work scuppers safety
Recent news that roll bars will be mandatory on quads in Australia within 24 months prompts the question: what’s going to happen in New Zealand?
Good point
A mate of the Hound’s, recently back home in Wakefield, Nelson following a month in Christchurch for medical treatment, reckons health and safety, ACC and other rules being imposed on farmers are ridiculous compared to other risky sectors.
