Is it not an indictment on NZ and the NZ business culture when the government has to pass a law that requires employers to include, involve and to communicate to their employees about issues dealing with health and safety.
The prime intention of the new health and safety legislation is designed to lift the standard of health and safety in NZ as well as reducing the number of fatalities and serious harm accidents in the NZ workplace.
Episode 2 with Gordon Anderson talking about the pending changes to the health & safety regulations being introduced in April 2016.
Production engineers and manufacturers assessing their own position in the wider TPPA picture should devote special attention to the term “intellectual property.” This means patents.
New Zealand production engineers as soon as the negotiation dust settles should consult their North American agents for hard news on tariff, clearance, and preference shifts on machinery imports including machinery re-builds.
Machinery and equipment rebuilding and reconditioning opportunities will now open up for New Zealand engineers following approval of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed - I don’t wish to sound as if this is an overreaction, but from information I received just a few days ago in a Google health and safety (H&S) alert via stuff.co.nz, the following is a wakeup call for all NZ businesses.
Palace of the Alhambra, Spain
By: Charles Nathaniel Worsley (1862-1923)
From the collection of Sir Heaton Rhodes
Oil on canvas - 118cm x 162cm
Valued $12,000 - $18,000
Offers invited over $9,000
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242
Mount Egmont with Lake
By: John Philemon Backhouse (1845-1908)
Oil on Sea Shell - 13cm x 14cm
Valued $2,000-$3,000
Offers invited over $1,500
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242