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News
28
Jun
Health and Safety Administration – are you covered?
Even if you are not a Hasmate program user or you use another online program, is your business adequately covered to manage this if your health and safety advisor/administrator is away from work, leaves your employment, or the role is only temporary for seasonal reasons? We often get contacted with calls...
28
Jun
Who owns your Health and Safety Information?
If you have ever been asked by your customers to supply information about your health and safety policy or systems, what do you supply? A question we often get asked is, do I have to do this or what should I give them? Do I have to give them a copy...
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Hints and Tips
28
Jun
Sole Operators & Health and Safety Responsibilities
We have had several enquiries recently for health and safety plans from sole operators and two-man contractors. It appears that the PCBUs of larger companies are now putting the pressure on these small operators and are wanting to ensure that they have their health and safety bases covered. This raises the...
21:52 /
Business Processes
06
Jun
Mitigating Risk To Your Business
The recent rupture to the 168km pipeline from Whangarei to Auckland has certainly put the “fox in the chook house” when it comes to culpability, blame and the cost to the New Zealand economy. It has been estimated that the cost could be up to $15 million dollars, but I...
02:57 /
Hints and Tips
31
May
What To Do When An Accident Happens
The purpose of this article is to provide you with a quick list of actions to use in the case of an incident or accident occurring in your workplace. What accidents to you have to notify WorkSafe NZ about? These are accidents that are described as notifiable incidents - as described in...
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Hints and Tips
30
May
Using a Yellow Card System
Just to clarify - this yellow card system is not for a foul or for doing something wrong, but is part of a positive, no-blame system for encouraging employees to bring their health and safety concerns or ideas for improvements of a business, to the attention of their employers. Previously I...
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Articles
10
May
Working on the right contracts
Are you chasing the great white whale? If you are a contractor or a self-employed tradesman, and your business is a one-man band or small to medium business (SME), this parallel to business is something to think about. In Herman Melville's fictional novel Moby Dick, Captain Ahab, the monomaniacal captain, was obsessed...
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Articles
18
Mar
Is Health and Safety Strangling Your Business?
Have you read about the Opua dog swimming races? Is this just another case of red tape, blue-tape or bureaucracy gone raving mad? I contacted the principal of Opua School and gave him a few health and safety pointers - but what was interesting was his comments about leaving the UK, to...
09:26 /
Articles
18
Feb
The Value of Institutional Knowledge
Institutional knowledge is defined as 'the knowledge that is known or held within an organisation by individuals, groups or as described in policies, procedures and other documents that are accessible to the people involved'. The purpose of this article is to raise an alert as to the dangers and the potential...
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Articles