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Comment — Medicine for doctors
Add to Session workbookDAVID BLACK laments the decline of occupational medicine and the wider occupational health system, and proposes ways to get it back on track.
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Contractor management: (Im)proving performance + prequalification perspectives
Add to Session workbookContractor management: Facility to manage
Add to Session workbookFacilities management companies employ a mix of in-house staff and external contractors. We asked two major players about their approach to managing contractor health & safety.
Subscribe to read this articleProfile: Board as leader
Add to Session workbookUnlike its predecessors as health and safety regulator, WorkSafe New Zealand has a board to oversee its governance. PETER BATEMAN talked to its chair, Dr Gregor Coster.
Read this articleOccupational exposures — Navigating deepwater
Add to Session workbookBP’s Dr RICHARD HERON was responsible for the safety of tens of thousands of clean-up workers after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This is his account of the strategies used to protect and monitor their health.
Subscribe to read this articleOccupational exposures — Bands on the run
Add to Session workbookOnline control banding systems are designed to help SMEs manage the risk of hazardous substance exposures. DEREK MILLER explains how they work.
Subscribe to read this articleOccupational exposures — Asbestos: a duty to manage
Add to Session workbookForthcoming regulations will significantly reform what is required to manage asbestos in buildings. MIKE COSMAN suggests a way forward for employers and building owners.
Subscribe to read this articleOccupational exposures — Shifting your thinking
Add to Session workbookADELLE LIEBENBERG asks: in comparing our exposure monitoring results to WES, are we correctly adjusting for non-8-hour shifts?
Subscribe to read this articleGovernance — Officers need good data
Add to Session workbookBoards and senior executives – “officers” in the new legislation – need effective data to inform their management of risk, says SHARRON O’NEILL.
Subscribe to read this articleGovernance — Measure for measure
Add to Session workbookBRENT SUTTON says the new health and safety legislation is an opportunity to reconsider how we report risk and outcomes to management.
Subscribe to read this articleGovernance — At the top table
Add to Session workbookSIMON ARCUS from the Institute of Directors explains why company directors are paying attention to health and safety like never before.
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Add to Session workbookLegal viewpoint — Vehicles as workplaces
Add to Session workbookCommercial vehicles are workplaces too. GWYNNE PENNELL outlines how the NZ Police carries out its health and safety role.
Subscribe to read this articleIt’s academic — Fatigue on the farm
Add to Session workbookRUPERT TIPPLES on a “decent dairying” project which used a Change Laboratory process to explore ways to reduce fatigue on New Zealand dairy farms.
Read this articleLook & learn — Food to go
Add to Session workbookA kerbside food waste collection project reaped the benefit of advanced planning and industry sector engagement. GREG DEARSLY reports.
Subscribe to read this articleRegulator Report — Remember: it’s health and safety
Add to Session workbookGEORGE ADAMS explains why health risk assessment needs to become part of “business as usual” for employers.
Subscribe to read this articleIncident investigation — Confined space work can be deadly
Add to Session workbookNZISM Perspective — Preparing for change
Add to Session workbookDon’t listen to those who spread messages of doom about forthcoming legislative changes, say SHERI SUCKLING and TONY RIGG.
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Add to Session workbookTrue Confessions — Get on the bus!
Add to Session workbookJOE GALLAGHER contrasts two different bus rides: one as a student, and the ride he is on now.
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