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Changes to the NZ Privacy Act and What This Means for Organisations

Changes to the Privacy Act 1993 Amendments to the Privacy Bill have recently been proposed and are most likely coming into effect by the end of 2019. The reform aims…

WorkSafe NZ’s New Guide for Engaging with Contractors

WorkSafe NZ has recently introduced a new guideline for Persons Conducting a Business of Undertaking (PCBUs) engaging with contractors. The new document titled PCBUs Working Together, offers a more condensed guide…

Health & Safety Responsibilities of the Corporate World

Compared to a construction site, offices are usually deemed a lot safer for workers. However, office environments still have their fair share of workplace incidents and accidents. Physical and psychological…

The ‘Just Culture’ Concept

If somebody makes a mistake in your organisation, are they better off reporting it or covering it up? According to E Tu NZ, a “Just Culture” is one where it is…

Providing a Respectful Workplace Culture

The World Health Organisation defines a respectful workplace as one that: “…encourages trust, responsibility, accountability, mutual respect, open communication and embraces the dignity and diversity of individuals” (more). How can your company…

What Makes a Workplace Healthy?

The World Health Organisation’s definition of a healthy workplace is: “…one in which workers and managers collaborate to use a continual improvement process to protect and promote the health, safety and…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Tag: Safety Culture

Changes to the NZ Privacy Act and What This Means for Organisations

WorkSafe NZ’s New Guide for Engaging with Contractors

Health & Safety Responsibilities of the Corporate World

The ‘Just Culture’ Concept

Providing a Respectful Workplace Culture

What Makes a Workplace Healthy?

Noise Control in the Workplace

Anxiety at Work

Lost Time Injury

The ‘Swiss Cheese’ model

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