Blog 14 - Working Wise

Noise Control in the Workplace

The health of your workers is just as important as the health of your business. As a business owner, you have a duty to prevent harm to your workers’ health.…

Setting a New Standard

Health and safety tends to become a ‘political football’, and never more so than at the international level. An article by Chris Peace about the new standard reported it had…

Anxiety at Work

According to the New Zealand Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study, anxiety and depressive disorders are second only to coronary heart disease as a cause of health loss…

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

According to the Heart Foundation, sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in adults. However, the immediate performance of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) on the victim can double the…

Lost Time Injury

A lost time injury (LTI) is something that results in a fatality, permanent disability, or time lost from work. It could be as little as one day or a shift…

Dealing with Armed Robbery

It is widely believed that the duration of most armed robberies is under one minute. This is a very short time frame for the offender(s) to carry out their plan,…

Too Hot to Sleep?

Finding it too hot to sleep at night lately? You are not alone. Trying to sleep on hot nights can be a nightmare, as your sleep cycle process is interrupted…

Safeguarding Staff Health

Changes to health and safety legislation over the last couple of years have seen a fairly rapid change in mindset towards safeguarding staff safety. However, safeguarding staff health has been…

Working removing asbestos from a roof inline with asbestos regulations

Asbestos regulations were most recently updated in 2018, following asbestos exposure having been identified more than once in the past 10-years’ as a leading cause of workplace-related disease causing death.…

The ‘Swiss Cheese’ model

In 1990 James Reason introduced the world to the Swiss Cheese model of accident causation. This now forms the basis of most risk modelling. In Reason’s representative framework each layer…

Category: Blog

Noise Control in the Workplace

Setting a New Standard

Anxiety at Work

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

Lost Time Injury

Dealing with Armed Robbery

Too Hot to Sleep?

Safeguarding Staff Health

Asbestos Regulations

The ‘Swiss Cheese’ model

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