HEALTH & SAFETY - MSC NewsWire

Farmers’ innovative silo system wins school a coaching session with Richard Loe

A Southland school has won a coaching session with rugby legend Richard Loe thanks to a farming couple designing an innovative system to prevent falls into their silo.

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Safety gear must be fit for purpose

Identifying a workplace risk, but not following up to ensure it is controlled is bad health and safety business practice according to WorkSafe.

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Local standards not being met

New Zealand has clearly defined standards for how machinery should be guarded, and WorkSafe says they’re still not being met by too many companies.

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WorkSafe launches ‘Be a Safe Guy’ campaign

Since 2013, more than 40 workers between the age of 18 and 30 years old have lost their lives in the workplace.

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Consistent machine guarding failures a wakeup call for manufacturing sector

In the last three months, four manufacturing companies have been sentenced under the Health and Safety at Work Act on charges for inadequately guarding machinery. So far this year, 11 manufacturing companies have been sentenced for machine guarding failures.

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Worker injured after being pinned by forklift

WorkSafe is reminding the logistics and transport sector that they need to be considering the health and safety of truck drivers coming on and off of their sites to pick up and deliver goods.

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Machine guarding failures in the meat processing industry are continuing to cause life changing injuries to workers.

27 Sep:11:24 | Alliance Group Limited appeared in the Timaru District Court yesterday after an incident where an inexperienced worker’s hand was amputated in a piece of machinery in March 2017.

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Dunedin trio land Australian deal for first-aid pod

A trio of Dunedin inventors have secured a crucial contract to supply their medical emergency first-aid shelters to a large Australian distributor — and have some impressive Aussie businesses already signed up.

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Insurance underwriter turned private detective to expose chemical contamination

Celebrity lawyer Erin Brockovich has been making waves across the Tasman, accusing authorities of inaction over water contamination from firefighting foam, but the real homespun hero when it comes to the fallout from those chemicals, is less well-known.