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.

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

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.

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

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.

WorkSafe is reminding businesses to take their health and safety systems with them when they move or expand their operations before commencing operations. And to treat them as a priority during the move.

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.

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.

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.

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.