How to deal with stress after emergencies?
Worksafe Smart, Health and Safety Consultant for the Nelson, Richmond and Blenheim region. Health and Safety policies, manuals, management plans, training, reviews, audits, advice and more. Stress after emergencies In emergencies, people put themselves into a survival state to deal with problems and cope with fears and other feelings. This…
Experienced farmers figure high in vehicle-related farm death toll
WorkSafe NZ media release / 1 November 2016 – Worksafe Smart, Health and Safety Consultant for the Nelson, Richmond and Blenheim region. Health and Safety policies, manuals, management plans, training, reviews, audits, advice and more. WorkSafe’s data from 2015 shows that experienced farmers carrying out routine jobs with vehicles are…
Workplace programme tackling airborne contaminants shifts into next phase
WorkSafe NZ media release, 20 October 2016 – Worksafe Smart, Health and Safety Consultant for the Nelson, Richmond and Blenheim region. Health and Safety policies, manuals, management plans, training, reviews, audits, advice and more. WorkSafe has launched a campaign to raise awareness of risks from welding fumes, wood dust and…
Hamilton City Council sentenced after zookeeper killed by tiger
WorkSafe NZ media release, 16 September 2016 Hamilton City Council has been ordered to pay reparations of $5,180 to each of zookeeper Samantha Kudeweh’s two children. Ms Kudeweh was killed by a tiger while working at Hamilton Zoo last year. The Council was also ordered to pay fines of $38,250…
Timaru construction firm fined after worker injured in 2.9m fall
WorkSafe NZ media release, 12 September 2016 The importance of training and hazard management while working at height has been highlighted at a Timaru District Court sentencing today. Timaru company Rickie Shore Building Limited was fined $34,000 and ordered to pay reparations of $16,000 after pleading guilty to one charge…
Hamilton flooring company fined after employee suffers serious burns
WorkSafe NZ media release , 15 August 2016 A commercial and residential flooring company has been fined $33,125 and ordered to pay reparations totalling $24,482.88 after an employee was left with serious burns in an incident involving the ignition of flammable solvent adhesive while installing vinyl flooring. Hamilton Flooring Limited…
Taiwanese tourist’s family to receive $70,000 after scuba dive death
WorkSafe NZ media release, 9 August 2016 The family of a Taiwanese tourist who drowned on a recreational SCUBA dive at Hahei in November 2014 will receive $70,000 in reparations. Waikato diving operator, Cathedral Cove Dive Limited (CCDL) and its director Russell Cochrane had earlier pleaded guilty to three charges…
First day on the job death leads to $180k fine/reparation
WorkSafe NZ media release, 11 May 2016 A Gisborne-based logging transport operator has been fined $80,000 and ordered to pay reparations of $100,000 in relation to the death of a contractor who was fatally run over during his first day on the job. James Walter Beau Thompson pleaded guilty to…
AFFCO worker impaled on meat hook awarded $25K
WorkSafe NZ media release, 20 April 2016 AFFCO New Zealand Limited has been fined $30,000 and ordered to pay reparation of $25,000 after a worker was impaled on a meat hook. The hook went in below his left ear and came out below his left eye, puncturing two major muscles…
Company director given home detention after worker buried in trench collapse
WorkSafe NZ media release, 22 March 2016 The director of Waikato company Steelcon Construction Limited, Rodney Bishop, has been sentenced to four months home detention over the death of a worker who died after he was buried when a trench he was working in collapsed. SteelCon Construction was also fined…